CSE Undergrad News

FYI, we have released CSE 490Z, the Algorithmic Game Theory course for registration. There are about 20 spaces available right now. Please see the course description for more information. The add code has been removed (even if it looks like it’s still on there, it is not restricted)

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                        ALGORITHMIC GAME THEORY

http://www.washington.edu/students/icd/S/cse/490karlin.html

Prereq: CSE 312

New (theoretically-oriented) Capstone Course for Fall 2011: Algorithmic Game Theory

In this course, we will use the tools of game theory to understand the incentive structure and strategic behavior of players in the brave new world we live in. We will study the foundations of the field known as algorithmic game theory, which lies at the intersection of game theory, economics and computer science, and learn about its applicability to the strategic and technological issues that arise in electronic commerce and in resource allocation in the Internet.

The theory we develop will help us address questions such as: What game theoretic ideas underlie companies like Facebook, Google, yelp, eBay, etc? How can you make the most money selling your used textbooks on eBay? What are the economics of email spam? What do game theory and the Paris subway have to do with Internet routing? How does Google find what you’re looking for and how do they make money doing so?

You are cordially invited to see what we have been up to this quarter! David

WHAT:   481m Home Networking Capstone Project Tour
DATE:   Wednesday, June 1, 2011
TIME:   3:30pm – 5:00pm
PLACE:  The Atrium
HOSTS:  Ratul Mahajan (MSR), David Wetherall, John Zahorjan, and Colin Dixon

The modern home is a hotbed of game consoles, TVs, smartphones, cameras, remotely controllable lights and locks, and many more networked computers. It is, in fact, one of the key computing environments of the future. But how will we write programs that run in the home? And what will they do?

Come and join MC Colin Dixon as he takes us on a tour of the home of the future as imagined and built by students in the 481m capstone. The tour will start at 3:30 and last for 30 mins, followed by unstructured time to interact with the teams and demos. See and be amazed by these projects:

-Who’s at my Door? Live feed and a record of the day from your front porch to your
phone or any screen in your house

-RoomSense, providing a user’s in-home location context for smarter home applications

-Intuihome, intuitive control of devices via gestures with 2D and 3D cameras

-Spooky Action at a Distance, a system for enabling remote connectivity
to the home, despite NATs and firewalls

-Networked Alarm, waking the user with lights and music and adjusting to calendar
events and traffic

-Network Usurper, transparently reconfigures the network to control data
flow and access to devices

We would like to thank Microsoft Research and Google for support, including equipment, that made this course possible.

David Wetherall
Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
http://djw.cs.washington.edu/

Hello CSE,

The Center for Game Science is working on a many new games. So many of you have asked how you can be involved … WELL, here’s your chance!!! We need a pool of testers to provide feedback on all of our games in production, each build will require more testing. 🙂

Interested? It’s so EASY! If yes, please follow the instructions below to sign up for the CGSPLAY mailman distribution list.

Go to: http://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cgsplay

o Find Subscribing to Cgsplay (mid page)
o Add your email address and your name (states optional but would be nice to have as an identifier)
o Click Subscribe

What to expect once you are on the CGSPLAY mailing list: a project lead will reach out to the CGSPLAY list with date, time frame, project, number of people needed. You’ll need to respond accordingly. Further details will be sent to you once you’ve signed up. We promise it will be FUN!

Thank you in advance for your assistance. Questions, please let me know.

Cathy

P.S. CGS team, you are already subscribed to CGSPLAY. If you didn’t know…this is part of your job description!

Cathy Wickersham
Center for Game Science
Computer Science & Engineering
cathyw@cs.washington.edu
206 616-2660

Some of you might be interested in a new “software team
formation/recruiting” tool called Group Talent. Link below to a blog post about it:

http://crashdev.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-weapon-in-war-for-talent.html

CSE People,

The Annual CSE Spring BBQ is next friday, May 20th, from 4-730pm, in Sylvan Grove.

This is an annual department wide celebration for the end of another great academic year!  Here are the details.

• Who: CSE undergrads, grads, and faculty.  (don’t bring a hoard of non-cse friends).
• What:
  • Free Food: BBQ, chips, and snacks.
  • Free Drinks: soda, Beer Garden with a valid ID.
  • Free Fun: lots of people for socializing, professor pieing, frisbee, and inflatable blow up toys!
• When: Friday, May 20th, 4pm-730pm
  
• Where: Sylvan Grove, the nice forested space with the 4 white pillars on the southeast side of the CSE building.   You can’t miss it.
• Why: not?

Hope to see you there! 😀

ACM Officers!

PS: send us your requests of Professors to Pie! XD

The ACM-W would like to invite all CSE grads and ugrads to their annual spring canoe trip:

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Hey CSE Grads and Undergrads!
Join us for an exciting canoe and picnic trip on Saturday 5/21 10:30am to 2:00pm. Come make some new friends while paddling on Lake Washington and we might even get to see some cute ducklings. It’ll be an adventure!

Meet in the atrium @10:30AM or by the WAC @10:50AM
Don’t forget to bring lunch, a snack to share, and a few dollars for the canoes.

-Your ACM-W officers 😀

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.

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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.

-Mary Pimenova