Hey everyone,
We’re going to update the ugradnews blog as we do every year. We’ll be adding only students who are current majors or new students this fall. If you want to keep receiving news after you graduate, we encourage you to join the CSE news blog: http://news.cs.washington.edu/
We also have facebook, twitter and a bunch of other ways to stay in touch: http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/FollowingCSE.html
CSE advising
On Tuesday, August 9th Google Seattle will host an open house for local CS
students graduating in 2012! Please join for an evening of tech demos,
networking, food and drinks from 5:30-8:30pm. Space is somewhat limited in
the cafe, so please RSVP.
edit: Here’s the actual text for the link so email can see it
FYI, Here is the updated information for CSE 421, it had to change times again but is now set.
CSE 421 SECTION A 3 INTRO TO ALGORITHMS
T TH 0330-0450 mor 234 KARLIN,A
Open, 46 spaces available
C SCI,CMP E majors only
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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:54 PM
Subject: An interesting Seattle-based Google story from the Sunday NY Times
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A great move by Amazon.com!!!!!
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From: Justine
Date: Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Subject: Amazon adds writing skills to the technical interview
I’m visiting a good friend a UW CSE alumnae, Software Engineer at
Amazon) and she gave me an interesting tidbit on some new interview
practices they’re just starting for SDEs… she says they’ll soon be
requiring applicants to provide a *writing sample* as part of their
interview. The writing sample will be one page, on a typical interview
personality question (“Describe a time where you worked with someone
who was uncooperative”… etc), due two days before the interview.
I now have a little more ground to tell the undergrads I talk to to
quit whining when they talk about humanities and English classes…
😉
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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:14 PM
Subject: Stuart in a tie!!
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>
Congratulations Stuart!!
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From: Adrienne Fairhall <fairhall@u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:07 PM
Subject: Computational Neuroscience program info/discussion
Dear all,
please join us in Guggenheim 415L at 12.30 on June 9 for pizza, and
an opportunity to discuss the new Computational Neuroscience program.
There is both an undergrad and a graduate component, but we will be
focusing mostly on the undergrad part. We’ll lay out our proposed
scheme and will be happy to get feedback on what you’d be interested
to see in such a program. Please forward this on to other students
that you think might be interested.
If you could, do RSVP if you think you are likely to be joining so we
can calibrate food quantities.
Thanks!
Adrienne
CSE Students,
Congratulations on a school year done! Bring on that last round of finals (for us Seniors anyhow)!
The new and old ACM officers are holding a set of office hours next week to tie up all the loose ends for this school year. The times are
Tuesday June 7th, 1-3pm, Lab 002
Wednesday June 8th, 1-3pm, Lab 002
Thursday June 9th, 1-3pm, Lab 002
And the issues we will be dealing with are:
1.) T-Shirts
We ordered a ton of “0xdeadbeef” and a few pixalated “CSE” T-shirts but didn’t get around to selling them at the BBQ. If you indicated interest for these particular shirts on the preorder survey in May then reply and cc acm-officers@cs to this email and give us the size you indicated and we will set that one aside. New T-Shirts will cost 15$ and Old T-Shirts will cost 10$.
2.) Coke Closet Tabs
Yes, it’s official (like 5 months later). The coke closet had a horrible, sudden, painful death early winter quarter. Anyway, if you would like a refund on your tab we will have that available at these office hours. Note if you do not collect your tab it will automatically be donated to the seed of the Coke Closet next year.
3.) Join the ACM (officially or unofficially)
Whether it’s the national organization or the UWACM, we will have membership forms with us. We will be moving some of our exclusive announcements to a member list next year that we don’t need to announce to all undergraduates. Sooooo if you don’t want to be out of the loop on a few announcements next year then it would be a good time to join. Don’t worry, general ugrad announcements for all important events, tech talks, fests won’t be affected.
If none of the times work send the officers a message and we will make something work out monday-thursday (we are out friday).
Happy graduation, end of the year, and summer!
Farewell,
Chris Raastad
Departing ACM SPAMbot to be replaced by Tim Vega…
This year’s projects in the multi-disciplinary CSE481K – Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments will be giving presentations in the Gates Commons from 5:00 to 6:30 in the Gates Commons. You are welcome to join us.
WHAT: CSE481K Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments Project Presentations
DATE: Wednesday, June 1, 2011
TIME: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
PLACE: Gates Commons (6th floor), Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, UW Campus
http://www.washington.edu/maps/?l=CSE
http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/maps.html
HOSTS: Gaetano Borriello (CSE), Ruth Anderson (CSE), Beth Kolko (HCDE), Rohit Chaudhri (CSE)
Smartphones are becoming and important tool in helping under-served populations improve their healthcare, citizen groups increase their reach, small entrepreneurs improve their businesses, and much more. Come and see how six projects – all connected to real customers – are tackling some interesting problems for which existing commercial products are inadequate, inflexible, or just too expensive.
We have opened about 14 spaces in the Robotics capstone. The add code has been removed (even if it looks like it hasn’t been)
| CSE 481 CAP SOFT DESIGN | Prerequisites (cancellation in effect) |
20483 C 5 WF 100-220 * * RAO,RAJESH P.N. 0/ 25 ROBOTICS CAPSTONE CSE 481 Robotics Capstone The Humanoid Robot Imitation Learning Challenge Autumn 2011 Course description: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to program a humanoid robot to imitate human actions and learn new skills from human demonstration using video from a Kinect RGB+depth camera. Students will work in groups to tackle the various sub-problems of human motion capture from video, control of the humanoid robot, and application of probabilistic reasoning and machine learning to the problem of learning from human demonstration. Pre reqs: CSE 481 Capstone Software Design (5, max. 15) Students work in teams to design and implement a software project involving multiple areas of the CSE curriculum. Emphasis is placed on the development process itself, rather than on the product. Prerequisite: CSE 331 or CSE 341; CSE 326 or CSE 332; CSE 351 or CSE 378; substantial programming experience such as CSE 451 or CSE 457.