CSE Undergrad News

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From: <inventiontostartup@u.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:18 PM
Subject: [Inventiontostartup] Learn start-up essentials from entrepreneurs + get two credits (ENTRE 540)

Thinking about entering the 2012 UW Business Plan Competition or Environmental Innovation Challenge but not sure where to start?
Join CIE every Thursday during winter quarter for Business Plan Competition Resource Nights and learn first-hand from local entrepreneurs the essentials of business planning and what it really takes to get a company off the ground. The nine sessions, which run from 6-7:50 pm, include topics such as: Entrepreneurial Checklist; Financials for Start-Ups with Alan Dishlip, CFO of Billing Revolution; and What Investors Want with Geoff Entress, Voyager Capital and Founder’s Co-op, and Charles Seybold, Liquid Planner.

These sessions are open to students and the public. In addition to all the great entrepreneurial insights, you can also earn two credits for attending the Resource Nights if you register for ENTRE 540.  Requirements: Attend all Resource Nights on Thursdays from 6-7:50 p.m. this winter and submit a 5-7 page executive summary for the company you plan to enter in the Business Plan Competition. (Note: This executive summary will not be your “official” entry into the Competition but is designed to clarify your business plan.) Email me, Sarah Massey, at masses@uw.edu to request an ENTRE 540 add code.  Undergraduates, full-time MBAs, evening MBAs, and graduate students from other disciplines (BIOE, ME, MSIM, etc.) can register for ENTRE 540.  Learn more about ENTRE 540

Resource Nights run from Thursday, January 5 to Thursday, March 1 from 6-7:50 p.m. in Paccar 192 (Shansby Auditorium).  You do not have to be enrolled in ENTRE 540 to attend these sessions.

Resource Nights Schedule

Let me know if you have questions.  Happy New Year.

Sarah

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Sarah Massey, Assistant Director

Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Michael G. Foster School of Business

University of Washington
P:  206.685.9868 | masses@uw.edu
Lewis Hall 327, Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200
www.startup.washington.edu

The University of Washington, and CSE, provide faculty, staff, and students with access to cloud services from Microsoft (Live@edu) and Google (Google Apps).

A set of important changes are coming soon to CSE Google Apps, including additional services, and a new look. A side-effect of these improvements is an unavoidable bit of disruption; and if you use Gmail or Calendar on a mobile device or thick client, your access will be temporarily blocked when these changes come, which will require action on your part to unblock at that time (details below).

Additional Applications

We will add a set of additional services to the CSE Google Apps domain in mid-December, so that your CSE Google Apps account works more like a “consumer” Google Account. This will bring applications such as video conferencing, Google+ (social networking), Picasa Web Albums (photo-sharing), and more to our department services.

NB: These Additional Services are different from the “core” Google Apps services, in terms of security protections and other legal regulations. It is important to note that the data you put into these additional services are owned by uw, just like the core Google Apps services; and just like every other computing resource you use on campus (and just like any off-site email forwarding you may have set up!). However, these additional services do not offer the necessary protections for “educational records” (FERPA), nor does Google offer you or us any technical support for these additional services – the Google Help forums are the technical support.

New Terms of Service

When we enable these new services, you will be required to accept a new Terms of Service agreement which applies to these Additional Services. (The TOS for the “core” services has not changed.) If you are using a web-app (such as the Gmail, Calendar or Docs), you will simply be redirected to accept the new TOS, then you’ll be sent right back in. But if you are using a phone, or a thick-client such as Thunderbird or Outlook, your access will silently and mysteriously stop! (Sorry… we tried to avoid this, but cannot.) Phone users will need to use a web browser to accept the new Terms of Service, and then your phone/thick-client access will resume. We will send out additional reminders as that time grows near. The current plan is to do this on the last day of Autumn Quarter, near end of the day (16 December).

New Look

As you may have already noticed, several core Google services are receiving a “new look.” For a limited time, you can opt into and out of the new look at will. Soon– by January 2012 at the latest– the new look will become the default choice (and you can opt-out). And eventually it will become the only choice. Most users prefer it.

Legacy Browser Support Goes Away

Along with the new look comes the sun-setting of support for several older browsers, including Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3.6, and earlier version of both browsers. Some services will work poorly with some older browsers, while others will stop working altogether.

Please update your browser if you are using an affected version. Later versions of browsers are generally more secure and are always more capable.

Offline Gmail

As a result of legacy browser support going away (along with Google Gears), offline Google Apps services now requires use of the Chrome browser and a special add-on app. The reason is that Google has switched from using Google Gears (now deprecated), to using HTML5.

More Information

More information about the forthcoming changes is available online at

Congratulations to Sanjana Prasain, CS major, for winning second place in the ACM ASSETS Student Research Competition! Sanjana’s work is StopFinder: Improving the Experience of Blind Public Transit Riders with Crowdsourcing. If you see Sanjana, give her a high-five. 🙂

The few remaining spaces in the capstones are now open.

We’ve been receiving a lot of questions about CSE 454.  That course is a capstone. Capstones have space pre-assigned every spring.  There is a survey sent out in May and students’ learn which capstone they will get by June.

We have sent out add codes to all students who were on the 454 list from last spring and we are waiting for them to fill the course. At this point, 454 is closed and we do not expect space to open. However, if it does, we will release space starting next week.  If you are interested in overloading the course, please show up the first week as always, just like any other CSE majors’ course.

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NEW TRAINING PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE — INFO-SESSION

Tuesday Nov. 8
Guggenheim Hall Room 305
4-5 PM

Come learn about a new opportunity for undergraduate traineeships and stipends in a fast-growing field that bridges biology and the computational sciences. Applications due soon — join us and learn more!

FOR MORE INFO: compneuro.washington.edu

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Hello CSE Students,

As a general reminder at the start of the year, we’d like to take this opportunity to address restroom use in the building and on campus in general.

All students have a right to safe and appropriate restroom facilities. This includes the right to use a restroom that corresponds to the student’s gender identity, regardless of the student’s sex assigned at birth. Transgendered students are encouraged to use whichever restroom they feel more comfortable using. Please be respectful of your peers and classmates.

For students who prefer to use a gender-neutral restroom, please refer to this list of gender-neutral restrooms on campus.

If you have further questions regarding gender identity and other related topics the UW Q Center is a great on-campus resource.

Best,
CSE Ugrad Advisors

From: Hank Levy <levy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:44 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] sad news
To: faculty – Mailing List <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, cs-grads – Mailing List <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads – Mailing List <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, cs-staff – Mailing List <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>

As you’ll all see on the news, it has just been announced that Steve Jobs has died.   It would be impossible to overstate the impact that Jobs had on our field and in fact on the world we live in.   A huge loss for all of us.

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From: Nicola Dell <nixdell@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: [dub] Fall 2011 Change Seminar
To: change@change.washington.edu, cs-grads@cs.washington.edu, dub@dub.washington.edu, cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu

Hi Everyone