CSE Undergrad News

In Winter quarter, students from CSE 490 and HCDE 419 (HCI) worked together on
projects designed to build technologies for resource constrained environments;
they are presenting the results of their projects and prototypes at a poster
session in the Allen Center Atrium on Tuesday 3/16 from 4:30-6:30. In spring
quarter these projects will continue as CS capstone projects with HCDE students
enrolling in a research group to participate in user testing and evaluation
stages of the projects.

There are seven projects currently underway, and we invite students who are
interested in any of these to enroll in either CSE 490D or HCDE 496 (with Prof.
Kolko) to join as the prototypes developed in Winter are fully developed and
implemented in Spring.

Although there will be a course meeting time (based on schedules of those
enrolled), that meeting time will only be used a few times during the quarter
for presentations. Most of the instruction will occur through individual
project teams’ group meetings with the instructor(s).

Please contact either Ruth Anderson at rea@cs.washington.edu or Beth Kolko at
bkolko@uw.edu if you have any questions!

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OneBusAway

The Onebus Away project presents an opportunity to build on a widely
used, open-source system and gain experience working on a project that
has the potential to greatly improve the lives of bus riders by
providing them more independence in trip planning through expanded
search queries and user accounts.
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Nonlinear ODK

NODK will allow doctors to collect data in novel ways throughout the
world.  Combining mobile and cloud technologies, you will contribute
to a live open source project while gaining marketable skills.  Your
work will directly improve healthcare provision in the developing world.
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Food Bank

Build a software package for non-profit organizations that facilitates
donation management. Primary features include data tracking and
reporting, and communication tools such as letter templates. Apply
your skills in web development, database construction and mining and
UI design.
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Ultrasound

The Portable Ultrasound Group invites you to join us as we work to
develop a low-cost, easy-to-use, portable ultrasound device for
midwives in the developing world. This project will involve UI
development, image analysis, and controlling peripheral devices. We
are working in collaboration with Dr. Rob Nathan, a radiologist
involved in the Portable Maternal Ultrasound Initiative.
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Education

In many elementary school classrooms there are far more students than
computers.  We are trying to utilize a system called Multilearn to
allow multiple students to  use one computer through the use of
individual keypads.  We are working to expand Multilearn to different
subjects and skill levels by creating a java framework for teacher
input of problems.  We also want to provide teachers, parents, and
students with feedback of students’ performance through data
presentation.

To find out more about MultiLearn go to:
http://change.washington.edu/projects/multilearn
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MDPhone

The ubiquitous nature of mobile technology is becoming increasingly
apparent in the 21st century.  However, the spread of medical
treatment and healthcare in many developing regions is limited and
scarce.  MDPhone attempts to bridge this gap by utilizing smart phones
and mobile medical instruments to help diagnose patients in remote
regions lacking medical staff.  The platform is built on open data kit
(ODK), a collection of tools for collecting, aggregating, and
visualizing data.
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Ridesharing

Pick up a rider, or pick up a ride as you make your way to the UW
campus. Save money on campus parking (carpool rates are much cheaper
than SOV), and share gas expenses. This group is building an
application using a variety of technologies and features that will
make ridesharing and carpooling with strangers a quick, simple, and
safe experience. Join this group and work with GPS, Facebook
integration, mobile and web development, and user research.
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There were some technical difficulties…. i.e. it’s a Friday.

Reload and try the page again…
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/current/overloading.html

We’ve opened the overload request form. Please note that we may not be able to add space to more courses, but we’ll do the best we can. 322 and 378 will be offered again this fall quarter if you’re unable to get into this spring.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/current/overloading.html

Just a reminder that if you want to see all the upcoming talks in CSE, you should join the talks newsgroup.  We’ll post a few every now and then here on the blog to remind you or if it seems particularly geared towards ugrads, but you are welcome to attend any of our public talks.

https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/talks
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From: Karl F Böhringer <karlb@washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:56 PM
Subject: Seminar announcement – Oliver Paul, IMTEK, University Freiburg, Germany
To: rao@cs.washington.edu

Rajesh,

Please forward this announcement to colleagues in your department.

Thanks,
Karl

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Speaker: Oliver Paul, University of Freiburg
Time: March 8, 1:30pm
Location: Paul Allen Center AE 108

Title: CMOS MEMS for Mechanical Sensing and Neuroscience

Abstract
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Piezoresistive mechanical sensing is currently experiencing a
renaissance stimulated by such novel developments as piezoresistive
field effect transistors with multiple source-drain contacts and
sensor elements for the measurement of out-of-plane components of the
stress tensor. The first part of the talk will present these sensor
elements from their foundations to the realization of smart sensor
systems for applications including smart orthodontic brackets, a
three-dimensional surface coordinate measurement system, and sensor
chips for packaging reliability studies.

The middle part of the presentation is dedicated to results of the
EU-financed project NeuroProbes, where intracortical neural probes for
electrical and chemical sensing and stimulation have been developed by
a consortium of 15 partners. CMOS-integrated microneedle probes with
up to 188 electrode sites have advanced the state of the art in the
spatial resolution of such probes, enabling a richer picture of
intracortical communication processes to be obtained.

Finally, these two lines of research are merged by the description of
microneedle-shaped stress sensor arrays. These structures are designed
to help neuroscientists to understand and minimize the mechanical
probe-brain interaction during penetration and acute and chronic
experiments.

Speaker bio
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Oliver Paul is a Professor and Chair of Microsystem Materials,
Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), at University of
Freiburg, Germany. He received his Ph.D. (Dr. sc. nat.) from ETH
Zurich in 1990. He served as a visiting faculty member at Ritsumeikan
University in Japan, and University of Michigan. His research
interests include microsystems for physical sensing and biomedical
applications, and microelectromechanical systems based on commercial
IC processes. Prof. Paul has authored over 200 research publications
and given more than 70 scientific talks and colloquia.He is among the
Editorial Board of Transactions on Electrical and Electronic
Engineering (IEE Japan), and Journal Micromechanics and
Microengineering (IOP), and Sensors and Actuators A (Elsevier). He is
the co-founder of Sensirion AG, Stafa, Switzerland.

Prof. Paul is available for meetings between 2:30 and 4:30pm. Please
let me know if you want to schedule an appointment.

Karl F. Böhringer, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
EE/CSE 234, Box 352500
Seattle, WA 98195-2500

tel 206 221-5177, fax 206 543-3842
karl@ee.washington.edu
www.ee.washington.edu/faculty/karl
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From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Oren Etzioni
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:19 PM
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Machine Learning Talk by Zillow’s Chief Economist. On Friday.

Title: “Machine Learning at Zillow – Looking Under the Hood at Zestimates”
Description: “Zillow updates the market value for 70 million homes in the U.S. three times each week. In doing so, the company produces more than 350,000 statistical and machine learning models each night. In this discussion, we’ll learn more about problem space of home valuation, the data that is available for solving the problem, the techniques Zillow uses for this application, and the pitfalls and learnings they’ve encountered along the way.”

Speaker: Stan Humphries

Time: Friday, March 5th at 2:30pm.

Place: EE 037 (guest lecture in CSE 446)

In connection with next Thursday’s talk, some special staging and lighting will be placed in the Atrium on Wednesday.  Apologies for the disruption.

Follow up, the CSE 390 course will be offered 2-3 times each year, so if you don’t take it this spring, there will be other opportunities.

From: cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:cs-ugrads-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Perkins
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 6:16 PM
To: faculty – Mailing List; cs-staff – Mailing List; cs-grads – Mailing List; cs-ugrads – Mailing List
Subject: [cs-ugrads] heard on NPR Science Friday last week
Importance: Low

Q:  What’s the difference between an extroverted mathematician and an introverted mathematician?

A:  The extroverted mathematician looks at your shoes when he talks to you.

(And we think that CSE has an image problem…)

Hal
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