CSE Undergrad News

Today at 4:30 in EEB 303, come learn more about internships from peers who just finished an internship of their own! Below is the list of employers where the panelists worked.

Amazon (2)

Boeing

eBay

Facebook (2)

Groundspeak

Groupon

VoiceBox

Yahoo

Zillow

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Overview:

10/7 – Hulu tech talk, EE125, 6:00 p.m.

10/8 – VMware Lunch & Learn, EE303, 1:30-2:30

10/8 – Resume review, Atrium, 2:30-5:30 p.m

10/8 – VMware tech talk, EE105, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

10/9 – Hulu office hours, Atrium, 11-12:30

10/9 – Google office hours, Atrium, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

10/9 – Isilon tech talk, EE125, 6:30 p.m.

10/10 – Nike is bringing lunch! Atrium, 12 noon

10/10 – CSE Internship Panel, EE303, 4:30-5:30pm

10/10 – Nike x U DUB + Nike + Fuelband

10/10 – Intentional Software tech talk, EE125, 5:45-7:00 p.m.

10/11 – Madrona office hours, Atrium, 11-12:30

Hulu Tech Talk

10/7: 6 p.m., EEB125

Hosts:
Ken McGrady
– Northeastern University Alum
– Currently works in the Seattle office with the living room devices team

Jon Luo
– Univ. of Washington Alum
– Currently works in the Seattle office on the living room devices team

Topic:
Personalization: How Hulu Measures and Tailors the Experience to You.

When:
Monday, October 7th at 6pm

Where:
CS Building- EEB125

+food and drinks will be available

VMWare Tech Talk

10/8: 1:30-2:30 p.m., EE303

Abstract:
Most people associate VMware with hypervisors. Why do 500,000 customers (including 100% of the Fortune 100) pay VMware more than four billion dollars every year when they can download the VMware hypervisor for free? VMware’s most popular product is vSphere, their datacenter operating system. We  will informally review a sample of the technological capabilities of vSphere and leave plenty of time for any questions you might have about VMware, vSphere, life in a tech company, projects, career advice, or more.

Speaker Bio:  Jon Herlocker is a senior technologist at VMware. Currently his role is the Chief Technology Officer for Log Insight at VMware where he owns all research & development for the VMware vCenter Log Insight product. In roles prior to VMware he has been CTO and VP of Engineering of Mozy, and an Associate Professor of CS at Oregon State.

Resume review

10/8: 2:30-5:30 p.m., Atrium

HR reps and engineers from all the major local software employers will be on hand to review CSE undergraduate resumes and provide tips to make them and you stand out.

VMWare Tech Talk

10/8: 5:30 -7:30pm, EE105

Delivering the Software-Defined Datacenter and the Next-Generation of IT Keynote by: Jack Lo – Vice President R&D at VMware

Software Techniques for Avoiding Hardware Virtualization Exits Tech Talk by: Jim Mattson On modern processors, hardware-assisted virtualization outperforms classical binary translation for most workloads.  But hardware virtualization has a potential problem: virtualization exits are expensive. While hardware virtualization executes guest instructions at native speed, guest/VMM transitions can sap performance.  Hardware designers attacked this problem both by reducing guest/VMM transition costs and by adding architectural extensions such as nested paging support to avoid exits. We will go over the complementary software techniques for reducing the exit frequency. Come learn about VMware and the technologies we work on!

Speaker Bios:  Jack Lo is Vice President of VMware’s Core Storage and Availability R&D team, which is responsible for the vSphere storage stack as well as High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Data Protection technologies. Prior to joining VMware, Jack was Director of Software Engineering at Transmeta Corporation.  He holds B.S./M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, under the guidance of Susan Eggers and Hank Levy.

Jim Mattson is a senior staff engineer in the virtual machine monitor group at VMware.  He received an A.B. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from UCSD in 1993.  Prior to joining VMware, he worked on binary translation technology for Hewlett-Packard and Transmeta.

Stop by for free food, great giveaways and a chance to win a Beats by Dre Headset!

Hulu Office Hours

10/9: 11-12:30pm, Atrium

Google office Hours

10/9: 1:30-3:00pm, Atrium

Isilon Tech Talk

10/9: 6:30 p.m., EE125

EMC Isilon Tech Talk

Speaker: Casey Peel – Software Engineer, October 9 @ 6:30pm, EEB125 Food/Drinks provided

EMC Isilon builds the world’s largest, fastest filesystem using clustered computing development in both the kernel and userspace, delivering a proprietary distributed filesystem on top of FreeBSD.

Learn how you can solve challenging problems in scalability, help drive cloud computing and storage to new levels, and work where you can make a difference.  Visit me.emc.com, or email Alex.Brynza@Isilon.com to learn more about our opportunities.

Nike Is Bringing Lunch

10/10: 12:00 noon, Atrium

Come grab some and chat with reps from Nike. JOIN US FOR A MEAL AND CHAT WITH US ABOUT YOUR INTEREST IN NIKE TECHNOLOGY!

COMING? RSVP HERE: http://nike.avature.net/college?tags=UDUBCDTLUNCH13.

AS ALWAYS, DRESS IS NIKE CASUAL!

Nike x U DUB + Nike+Fuelband

10/10: 3:30-4:30pm, Mary Gates Hall 134

Please join Michelle Prussing, Director, DIGITAL GEO EXPANSION, for exclusive insight into NIKE CONSUMER DIGITAL TECH and careers in CDT COMING? RSVP at http://nike.avature.net/college?tags=UDUBCDTLUNCH13 As always, dress is Nike casual!

CSE Internship Panel

10/10: 4:30-5:30pm, EE303

COE co-op and internship office is hosting an internship panel featuring students who recently completed their internship. Below is the list of employers where the panelists worked. CSE Student Internship Panel October 10, 2013 4:30pm EEB 303 Amazon (2) Boeing eBay Facebook (2) Groundspeak Groupon VoiceBox Yahoo Zillow

Intentional Software Tech Talk

10/10: 5:45-&:00pm, EEB125

CONTEXT DRIVEN PROGRAMMING

Shane Clifford, VP of Engineering

Thursday/Oct 10 @ 5:45-7:00 PM, ROOM – EEB125

Light Food & Beverages

Madrona Office Hours

10/11: 11:00-12:30pm, Atrium

Instead of the traditional programming contest that Stuart Reges and Marty Stepp have setup in the past, Stuart Reges is running a local ACM contest to determine which teams will represent us at the regional competition. The contest will be this Saturday from noon to 5 in the basement labs. Pizza and prizes will be provided. Register a team of three at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/reges/214151.  The deadline to signup is TODAY at 10 so act quickly!

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CSE Advising

Tracy Erbeck
2:32 PM (2 hours ago)

to cs-staff, faculty, visitors, cs-grads, cs-ugrads
We will be having a fire drill on Monday, 9/9- time unknown. The alarm will sound, lights flash- If you happen to be working in the building, please exit and gather on the lawn across Benton Lane. I expect the drill to last around 30 minutes.

Thank you.

Tracy Erbeck
Facilities Manager, CSE, University of Washington
tracy@cs.washington.edu
206.543.9264 (office)
206.543.2969 (fax)

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Hello CSE undergrads!

Please go to this link to request space in one of next year’s capstones:

2013-2014 Capstones

Fall
481C Robotics Capstone: Maya Cakmak
Winter
454 Internet Systems Capstone: Oren Etzioni
460 Animation Capstone: Barbara Mones
481i Sound Capstone: Bruce Hemingway
Spring
477 Hardware Systems Capstone: Shwetak Patel
481D Games Capstone: Zoran Popovic
481K Software Capstone, Resource-Constrained Environments: Richard Anderson

Hi everyone,

This Friday 5/24 will be our quarterly Lunch with the Chair, Hank Levy. There will be free pizza!

When: Friday, May 24. 12-1pm
Where: CSE 691 (Gates Commons)

As usual, this is an opportunity to eat pizza, ask questions about the program, eat more pizza, and find out what’s going on in the CSE department.

On Thursday, May 23rd, around 400 (!!) middle and high school students
will gather at Rainier Beach High School to learn about building
mobile apps using TouchDevelop (https://www.touchdevelop.com/).

We need about 12 volunteers to help out and encourage the students.
This is a great opportunity to be a mentor and get to know some great
kids.

We will offer a training session for volunteers on Monday 5/20 4:30-5:30.

We would love to have you participate!!  If you are interested, please
e-mail Hélène Martin (ln@cs.washington.edu) with your availability
between 9:30 and 1:30 on 5/23 and whether you could drive to Rainier
Beach.  We will set up a carpool.

Thank you!

Hélène.

This is a reminder that voting for next year’s Internal Relations Officer will close at 11PM PST today, April 29, 2013. You can find more information about each candidate and officer positions here.

Vote for next year’s Internal Relations Officer: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/200789

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or you’re having trouble accessing the Catalyst WebQ, please contact Jennifer Apacible at apacible[at]cs[dot]washington[dot]edu.