CSE Undergrad News

FRom Andrew J. Ko <ajko@uw.edu

I’ve got a (late) Informatics course announcement that seems appropriate for the CSE undergrads:

INFO 461 – Cooperative Aspects of User-Centered Design
Instructor: Andrew J. Ko, The Information School

If you have any interest in working in the software industry (whether as a developer, tester, usability engineer, user experience designer, program manager, consultant, etc), you should be in this course. The course provides fundamental insights about how to design software in an organizational team-based setting. The course compliments a traditional software engineering course, combining theoretical background on requirements, design, version control, testing, issue tracking, and user feedback, while also providing practical experience building software as a team in a way that mimics best practices in industry. Assessments are based primarily on the delivery of a 1.0 and 2.0 product and peer evaluations of communication skills and software quality.

From Lee Damon <nomad@crow.ee.washington.edu>

I’m the USENIX campus rep for UW.  I’ve been sending these notices out
to a few of you for a while now but wanted to make sure everyone who is
interested had a chance to hear about them.  The text below is boiler
plate so please excuse the lack of customization.  (For those of you on
techsupport, I won’t usually send them to this list so if you would like
to receive future updates please let me know.)

USENIX started as the Unix Users Group but has expanded its charter.  It
is now “The Advanced Computing Systems Association” and is
non-denominational when it comes to operating systems, file systems, or
any other aspect of computing.

The LISA conference is the main conference for System Administrators (of
any OS; Unix, Linux, Windows, OS X, VMS, etc.).  It is held annually
towards the end of the calendar year.  This year it is in San Jose, CA
November 7-12.

Student stipend grants are available for most USENIX conferences.  If
you know of a student who would be interested in attending but wouldn’t
otherwise be able to afford it please forward this email on to them.

As the campus rep I have access to the conference proceedings of almost
every USENIX conference in the past 10+ years as well as ;login: and the
Short Topics in System Administration booklets. Please contact me
directly if you want to borrow any of the books, view any past
proceedings, or have any questions about USENIX or the LISA conference.

nomad

— Update —
USENIX Update:
1. LISA ’10 Grant Applications Due by Monday, October 11, 2010
2. Videos/Slides from USENIX Security, EVT/WOTE, and HealthSec, Plus New
YouTube Channel
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1. LISA ’10 Grant Applications Due by Monday, October 11, 2010

The application form is at:
https://db.usenix.org/cgi-bin/students-lisa10/stipend.cgi?lisa10

Guidelines and hints for your students can be found here:
http://www.usenix.org/students/tips.html

Stay connected with other LISA attendees:
— LISA ’10 Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=260288803462&index=1

— LISA ’10 Twitter page:
http://twitter.com/LISAConference #lisa10

LISA ’10 registration is now open. The Early Bird Registration
deadline is October 18, 2010.
http://www.usenix.org/lisa10/

2. Videos/Slides from USENIX Security, EVT/WOTE, and HealthSec, Plus New
YouTube Channel

Videos and slides of the presentations of the refereed papers
and invited talks are accessible to all USENIX members and USENIX
Security ’10 and workshop attendees:

http://www.usenix.org/events/sec10/tech
http://www.usenix.org/events/evtwote10/tech
http://www.usenix.org/events/healthsec10/tech

Contact Lee Damon, USENIX’s UW Campus Rep, if you would like to see any
of them.

Also, USENIX is now on YouTube. Subscribe to the USENIX YouTube channel
for the latest conference videos and greatest hits:
http://www.youtube.com/usenixassociation

If you are a current CS or CE student interested in a CSE major’s only course this fall that is full, keep monitoring it for space to open.  If you are still unable to get into the course by the time the quarter starts, attend the first week.

You will need to sign the overload form in class this week AND fill out the overload catalyst survey when we open that on Friday as well.  Instructors or advisors will give out add codes by Tuesday (Oct 5th)  if there is room in the course to overload.

For Transition students remember that one more 378 will be offered in winter 2011, but this is the LAST offering of 322.

Building and reception hours return to “normal” this Wed, 9/29.

Building hours are 7am-9pm M-F

Closed Sat and Sun

*accessible by keycard outside of those hours

Reception hours are 9am-Noon and 1pm-5pm M-F

Closed Sat and Sun

Tracy Erbeck

Facilities Manager, CSE, University of Washington

tracy@cs.washington.edu

206.543.9264 (office)

206.543.2969 (fax)

From Ed Lazowska:

The Putnam is the top mathematics competition.

UW has done extremely well in recent years, coached by two terrific
math professors, Ioana Dumitriu and Julia Pevtsova.

CSE students have been among their top performers.  See:

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2009/04/09/uw-cse-junior-will-johnson-places-sixth-in-putnam-competition/

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2010/03/22/johnson-rutherford-tong-score-in-putnam-competition/

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2010/04/12/senate-resolution-8725-honors-will-johnson/

Please see information regarding this year’s preparation below!

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Dear all,

Welcome back to campus! This is a heads-up announcement for the Putnam
Mathematical Contest preparations sessions and the Math 380A class (“The
Art of Problem Solving”) connected to it (note the difference in numbering
from last year!).

Math 380A can be used as good preparation for anyone interested in
mathematical contest-taking (and as a stand-alone, it would make for a
very interesting, fun, and challenging class).

If you are a person who is intrigued by mathematical puzzles and beautiful
problems, and particularly if you are considering taking the Putnam exam,
we urge you to think about registering for Math 380 (not just auditing).
It is important that you do the homework, in order to learn, and there is
more incentive for doing homework if you’re registered.

Please check out

www.math.washington.edu/~dumitriu/putpage.html

for the Putnam exam and Putnam prep sessions, and

www.math.washington.edu/~dumitriu/m380_au10.html

for Math 380A, The Art of Problem Solving.

Attached is the Putnam announcement.

Wishing you all a great Autumn quarter,
Ioana Dumitriu and Julia Pevtsova

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Each summer we refresh the email subscription list for our CSE ugrad news blog by removing all email addresses for graduated students. If you have graduated and wish to stay on the list for nostalgia, you can re-subscribe as an RSS feed – or, we would recommend the following sites might as more beneficial to you:   http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/FollowingCSE.html

Alumni, we also encourage you to keep us informed of your life after UW by filling out the section of your MyCSE (https://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/mycse) account for Co-ops, Internships and  post-UW plans.  We’ll hopefully have an alumni tab in the future.

Additionally, please fill out the exit survey if you never did that.  http://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/education/exit/exit.cgi/student

If you moved your email to the cloud, you can keep your CSE email accounts active. If you never moved to the cloud, you have one quarter after you graduate to set up email forwarding for your CSE email accounts by doing this:http://www.cs.washington.edu/info/alumni/email-web-forward.html

Apparently some of you in the cloud are still receiving email notification saying your email accounts will go away.  We’ve asked the support office to send updated information detailing what goes away and what stays very soon, stay tuned.

And finally, we’ll  make sure all current students are subscribed to the CSE ugrad news blog as direct email subscribers; however if you prefer, you can delete that subscription and monitor the blog via RSS feed. The link to control your email preferences can be found at the top left link on the blog website: /

Hope everyone had a good summer. See you soon.

Sincerely CSE Advising

Crystal, Megan, Raven and Elise

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Hello,
We are offering the LabVIEW training class again this Autumn Quarter. Please visit the online registration if you are interested:

Registration:

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jmreina/111790
Syllabus:

http://www.justinreina.com/ni/aut10/admin/NIAUT10Syllabus.pdf
Location and Time:

The sessions will take place in Sieg 232 on Fridays from 1:00pm-2:20pm. Sessions start the first week of the quarter. Enrollment is 45 seats.
Summary:

Ten Week Introductory LabVIEW course. Experience with data acquisition will be provided. CLAD certification exam offered during finals week after satisfactory completion of course. Special topic lectures will be provided at request.
Description:

This course will take you through the fundamentals of the LabVIEW environment in preparation to use it as a powerful T&M tool. Each week will have one 1.5 hr lecture and a follow-up homework assignment afterwards to re-emphasize the lecture material.
At the end of the sessions, anyone who has completed eight or more sessions with satisfactory homework grades will be eligible to take the NI CLAD certification test. This test is normally $300, but NI is offering it for free given satisfactory completion of the course.
Thanks,
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UW Electrical Engineering
(425)760-7291

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Thank you,
Justin Reina

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:10 PM
Subject: Reboot closure
To: ugrads

Hi all…

Nocturnal Flow, the light wall, will be repaired next week.  To prepare for this, the entire wall will be have scaffolding with installation starting  on Monday, 8/23.  All work, both scaffold installation and light wall repairs, will be done in the evening hours, after 5pm.

Tracy Erbeck, Facilities Manager

Paul G Allen Center for CSE

Box 352350

Seattle, WA 98195

206.543.9264 (desk)

206.543.2969 (fax)