CSE Undergrad News

Message from John Zahorjan:

“The lab” (support + other technical staff) is in the process of re-evaluating the services it offers, and how it offers them.  It’s meeting with groups of students and faculty to find out what’s working and what’s not working, and to get ideas about how things could be done differently.

There is a meeting tomorrow – Monday, 4/12 – starting at 2:30 (and going no later than 4:00) in CSE 203.

At that meeting, we’d like to hear from people WHO ALMOST NEVER USE THE CSE LABS.  You’re computing somewhere, and we’d like to find out how we can make things better for you.  (And, as you’re not computing in our labs, the only way to get information is to hear from you directly.)

If you can meet with us, that would be much appreciated.

The meeting is in CSE 203.  Advance mail to me indicating that you’re intending to come would be appreciated as well, but isn’t necessary.

Thanks,
John

P.S.  My apologies for this late notice.  Targeted mail was sent to a substantial group of people who our logs indicate never login to our lab machines, but so far almost none have responded — maybe they don’t read their cs mail, or maybe they’re not longer around.  (Our logs aren’t perfect…)

P.P.S.  There will be another meeting with people who do use the labs shortly (most likely on 4/26).

—–Original Message—–
From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:46 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; Alfred Spector; Brian Bershad
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Open Data Kit

I try not to re-post CSE news items to email these days, but Yaw

Anokwa and the ODK team have just received an extraordinary honor.

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2010/04/08/cses-yaw-anokwa-wins-antonio-pizzigati-prize-for-software-in-the-public-interest/

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From: faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Hank Levy
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 10:52 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: Seattle Times article on Will Johnson

Nice article in the Seattle Times about Will and the Putnam Fellowship:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011532657_putnam06m.html

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:27 PM
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] ARIA (back online)

The Terminal Server ‘aria.cs.washington.edu’ is now back online.

However, it is currently running a small set of software, I just wanted to quickly get it back online for the CSE444 users that were trying to access it. The rest of the software is coming…

The machine was a victim of “the tragedy of the commons”. Please take special care not to install special software or store vast amounts of data on this machine. It is a “community” resource, and what you do can cause problems for the rest of the community.

Thanks!

Tony Anderson

CSE computer fixer guy.

Reminder to be checking cs-ugrads-jobs blog for continued postings for full time and internship positions. Here is another example:

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 8:42 PM
To: cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; Magda Balazinska; Steve Gribble
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Cloudera wants interns

Cloudera is a Hadoop-related startup.  We have several alums working there, under excellent adult supervision.  They are looking for interns in databases, workflow management, and Hadoop.  I get a beer for every person they hire and I’m really parched.  Please respond to Aaron Kimball, a superb co-founder who’s on leave from our Ph.D. program.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Aaron Kimball <aaron@cloudera.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Subject: begging for interns
To: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>

Hi Ed,

I hope you’re doing well up there — has the weather started to turn the corner for the spring yet?

We still need some interns at Cloudera for this summer. We’ve got openings for someone to help build database import/export tools, workflow management tools, and work on Hadoop at large. If you or anyone else on the faculty know of any bright young systems- or database-inclined folks who’ve yet to sign an offer for the summer, I’d really appreciate it if you could give me some names to reach out to (or if you could nudge them to just send me a resume). I’ll buy you a beer for each referral that works out 🙂

Cheers,

– Aaron

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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Eggers
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 8:56 AM
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Cc: Francis Iannacci
Subject: [cs-ugrads] for those taking 471

Hi all —

The classes for CSE471 will meet in room 403 in the Allen Center instead
of EEB 042. See you Tuesday!

Susan

Yaw Anokwa

Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:52 AM
To: Change Group
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Write Code! Save the World! Summer 2010!

a few of us at uw have long standing projects with openmrs and

partners in health. one of the core openmrs/pih folks has moved to

seattle and this sounds like a good opportunity to add to those

collaborations! as a bonus, you can even work on features that connect

openmrs to uw’s own open data kit.

———- Forwarded message ———-

Write Code! Save the World! Summer 2010!

Would you like to spend your summer …

– contributing to an exciting Open Source project

– helping a local non-profit that’s been doing medical work in

developing countries for 30 years.

– writing code that might be rolled out in hospitals in Haiti, Rwanda,

Peru, and 20+ other countries

– getting some J2EE web application development experience on your resume

Well, then come join us for a summer of code! The prestigious Google

Summer of Code (code.google.com/soc) pays students to spend the summer

working on open source projects. You will spend 11 weeks writing code

for a real project, on top of a real application that real people use.

OpenMRS (openmrs.org) is an open source electronic medical record

system, primarily aimed at developing countries. And it’s a GSoC

mentoring organization.

Partners In Health (pih.org) is a Boston-based non-profit with 30

years of experience bringing medical care to developing countries, and

8 years of experience implementing electronic medical records

technology in challenging settings.

PIH is a co-founder/contributor to the OpenMRS project and we have

several developers who will be acting as mentors for GSoC projects

this summer. We have a preference for Seattle-area students that we

can work with in person. So, if you are a Seattle-based student

(undergrad, grad, or just-graduating) who wants to do some real-world

software development, then we want to hear from you.

The GSoC application period is from March 29 to April 9. So check out

OpenMRS’s summer of code page

(http://openmrs.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010) and look for a project

you like. If you’re in the Seattle area and want to talk to us

directly, email Darius at djazayeri@pih.org.

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Congratulations to Will Johnson, who was just selected as a Putnam Fellow.

Also congratulations to CSE students Steven Rutherford and Keyun Tong, who placed in the top 500.

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From: faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:29 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List
Subject: Fwd: Will Johnson: Putnam Fellow (fwd)

A truly remarkable achievement!  Congratulations Will!

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Dear Colleagues,

The results of the Putnam Competition have just arrived with great

news: Will Johnson has placed in the top five and has been named a

Putnam Fellow. Will is a joint Math and CS major. He is the first UW

student to win a Putnam Fellowship since the competition was initiated

in 1938.

Please join me in congratulating Will for this remarkable achievement.

This year’s UW participants again benefited from a Math 480 course and

other Putnam preparation efforts that were led by Ioana Dumitriu and

Julia Pevtsova.

There were 4036 participants in the competition. In addition to Will,

four UW students, Nate Bottman, Steven Rutherford, Song Yisong, Keyun

Tong, placed in the top 500. Congratulations to all the students for

their success.

Selim

From: office-staff-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:office-staff-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Tracy Erbeck
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:45 PM
To: cs-staff – Mailing List; faculty – Mailing List; visitors – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Cc: ‘Johnny Young’
Subject: [Cs-staff] Building hours over break week

7:00am- 5pm.  Remember to have your access card!

Tracy Erbeck, Facilities Manager

Paul G Allen Center for CSE

Box 352350

Seattle, WA 98195

206.543.9264 (desk)

206.543.2969 (fax)

Contact: Brian Ferris

email: bdferris@cs
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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Ferris
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:10 AM
To: ultimate – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Spring IMA Ultimate Frisbee

Spring is rapidly approaching, which means it’s time for Spring IMA
Ultimate Frisbee.  Are you interested in playing?  The department
usually try to field one or two teams, depending on interest (Max Flow
and Min Cut).  All levels are welcome, including absolute beginners.
If you have a friend outside the department who wants to play, feel
free to forward this on.

If you are interested, I need the following from you:

1) Your name
2) Your UW Student ID #
3) Your gender
4) Your level of play (anything from “never touched a disc” to “I got
cut from Sockeye… my awesomeness was my teammates feel inadequate!”)
5) When can you play?

Men’s League (can also include ladies who like to cause trouble)

Monday – 6:15
Tuesday – 5:15
Wednesday (c) – 5:15
Friday – 5:15

Co-Rec (Guys and Gals)

Sunday – 12:30/1:30
Monday – 5:15
Tuesday – 6:15
Wednesday (c) – 6:15
Thursday – 5:15/6:15
Friday – 6:15

(c) denotes cascade league – aka more hard-core

Let me know if you want to play sooner rather than later, as we’re
more likely to get a good spot the sooner we sign up.

Thanks,
Brian