CSE Undergrad News

This is your chance to hear one of the great figures in computer science.  Ivan is a Turing Award winner who pioneered interactive graphics and constraint systems with Sketchpad. but in recent years has worked in asynchronous circuits and systems.  Today he is going to talk about FLEET, a fine-grained parallel computer architecture he developed recently while visiting at Berkeley.

Be there!

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Computer Science and Engineering
COLLOQUIUM

SPEAKER:        Ivan Sutherland, Portland State U, Sun Microsystems

TITLE:          Fleet, Infinity & Marina

DATE:           Tuesday, October 27, 2009

TIME:           3:30 pm

PLACE:          EEB-105

HOST:           Carl Ebeling

ABSTRACT:
This talk describes a radically different architecture for computing called Fleet.  Fleet accepts the limitations to computing imposed by physics: moving data costs more energy, more delay, and more chip area than the arithmetic and logical operations ordinarily called “computing.”   Fleet puts the programmer firmly in charge of the most costly resource: communication.  Fleet treats arithmetic and logical operations as side effects of where the programmer sends data.

Fleet achieves high performance through fine grain concurrency. Everything Fleet does is concurrent at the lowest level; programmers who wish sequential behavior must program it explicitly.  Fleet presents a stark contrast to today’s multi-core machines in which programmers seek concurrency in an inherently sequential environment.

The Fleet architecture uses a uniform switch fabric to simplify chip design.  A few thousand identical copies of a configurable interface will connect a thousand or so repetitions of basic arithmetic, logical, input-output, and storage units to the switch fabric. The uniform switch fabric and the identical configurable interfaces will simplify many of the hard parts of designing the computing elements themselves.

Both software and FPGA simulators of a Fleet system are available at UC Berkeley. Berkeley students have written a variety of Fleet programs; their work helped to define what the configurable interface between computing and communication must do.  A simple compiler configures both source and destination to provide flow-controlled communication.  We expect work on a higher-level language for Fleet to appear soon as a Berkeley PhD dissertation.

Last year we built a 90 nanometer TSMC test chip, called Infinity, at Sun Microsystems.  Infinity demonstrated the switch fabric running at about 4 GHz.  We now have a new test chip, called Marina, also in 90-nanometer TSMC sponsored by Sun.  Marina shows correct operation of the configurable switch fabric interface.  Together Infinity and Marina give us confidence to build a complete Fleet.  We seek participation from sponsors, computer scientists, and hardware designers.

This work done with Adam Megacz (UC Berkeley).

BIO
Ivan Sutherland is a Visiting Scientist at Portland State University where he and Marly Roncken have recently established the “Asynchronous Research Center” (ARC).  The ARC occupies both physical and intellectual space half way between the Computer Science (CS) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) departments at the university. The ARC seeks to free designers from the tyranny of the clock by developing better tools and teaching methods for design of self-timed systems.  Prior to moving to Portland, Ivan spent 25 years as a Fellow at Sun Microsystems.  A 1959 graduate of Carnegie Tech, Ivan got his PhD at MIT in 1963 and has taught at Harvard, The University of Utah, and Caltech.  Ivan is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.

Unfortunately we did not get this posted in time for their information session earlier this week, but please take a few moments to consider applying for this program.   Some companies may give a deferral if you are accepted to this program and for a full time job.   Make sure to talk with your recruiters if you’re interested.

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals – of all majors, backgrounds, and career interests – who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. This year, 7,300 corps members are teaching in 35 regions across the country while 17,000 Teach For America alumni continue working from inside and outside the field of education for the fundamental changes necessary to ensure educational excellence and equity.

To learn more, visit www.teachforamerica.org or contact justin.yan@teachforamerica.org.

NEXT Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 28^th, 2009

Full salary and benefits. All majors and professional experiences.

If you are considering graduate school, you should think about applying for a fellowship. Here is a handy link to use as a reference  :

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/grad/current/Fellowships.html

And one we just received info about as well.

Simons Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience, Yale Child Study Center, Yale
University School of Medicine

Deadline: January 6, 2010

The Simons Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience will select highly qualified
college graduates to participate in cutting-edge autism research at the Yale
Child Study Center.  The Yale Child Study Center is a leading institution for
clinical research on autism and related social disabilities, with a
multidisciplinary approach spanning projects in behavioral neuroscience,
neuroimaging, molecular and population genetics, and treatment. Successful
applicants will be involved in a 2-year program aimed at the development of
computational tools for early diagnosis and phenotypic characterization of
infants at risk for autism.

We seek highly motivated candidates who are interested in applying a background
in computer science to a field of research with direct clinical impact.
Successful
applicants will integrate computational strategies with clinical
research goals to develop computational models and data analysis methods for
advancing understanding of autism and efforts at early diagnosis.  This work
will be directly informed by interacting with patients with autism and their
families.

The selected Fellows will be directly mentored by the program directors and will
participate in classes, weekly seminars and meetings as an integral part of an
active community of clinicians and research scientists.

Interested applicants should visit
http://childstudycenter.yale.edu/autism/fellowships.html for application
materials and for additional information regarding the program and research.
Applications are due January 6, 2010.  Further information about the Yale Child
Study Center Developmental Disabilities Section can also be found at
http://childstudycenter.yale.edu/autism.

Eligible for the January 6 deadline are college seniors who will hold a
bachelor?s degree by June 2010.  While all backgrounds are welcome,
candidates are expected to have experience in computer programming as well as
an interest in extending the bounds of that knowledge by focusing on medical
research goals.

—
Simons Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience
Developmental Disabilities Clinic
Yale Child Study Center
Yale University School of Medicine
40 Temple Street, Suite 6B
New Haven, CT 06510
Fax: 203.764.4373
Website: www.autism.fm

Hello!

I’m looking for a motivated student (or two) who is interested in
working on programming language VM environment that will be deployed
on millions of computers ( https://seattle.cs.washington.edu ). This
environment is currently being used in networking and distributed systems

have the world’s largest open testbed.   We expect the number of
computers using this environment to more than double in the next six

devices, and location services for mobile devices.

Educational support — Creating example course materials, improving the
user interface of tools, and answering student questions.

The benefits of doing research in our group:

* Team environment    —   A significant amount of the work in our lab is
done in teams of 2-4 undergrads.   This helps to provide a supportive working
environment and allows students to accomplish more impressive things
in a shorter period of time.

including four who won awards and/or fellowships for research.   All
of the undergraduates that I have worked with for more than one year
were hired by their first choice in industry.   Our lab currently is
working with more than 10 talented undergraduates, including four who
are working towards an honor’s thesis.

We’re most interested in applicants who have a CS GPA >= 3.5 and
either have taken 3 CS courses or have prior work experience.
Applicants also should have at least 1 year until graduation.
If you are interested in learning more about our project, please send
an email to justinc@cs.washington.edu with the following information

A reminder to check the ugrad jobs list: http://ugradjobs.cs.washington.edu/

A quick reminder that we are requesting that students interested in full-time opportunities submit their resumes and unofficial copies of their transcripts by today, October, 16th.

Interested in hearing more about the full time opportunities and internships, and how Google employees have applied their education and experiences to work on interesting challenges that impact millions of people around the world? We’d love to see you at our Tech Talk and answer your questions about our work and our company.

When: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Where: Paul Allen Center for Computer Science Atrium

Please sign up for this event by RSVP’ing here. RSVPing helps us know how many people to order food for, but everyone is welcome!

If you have questions about job opportunities, please feel free to contact me. We look forward to meeting you!

Jessica
(jessicae@google.com)

Bring a copy of your resume (rough drafts are fine) to our workshop tomorrow (Tues, Oct 13th) from 3-6pm in the atrium. You don’t need to stay the whole time, but the last people admitted will probably be around 530 or 545. We’ll have 8 recruiters from local tech companies there to provide feedback.

Even if you didn’t rsvp, you are still more than welcome to attend

The Employer Panel is first CSE recruiting prep event of the year! The purpose is to inform you about the recruiting process from the employers’ perspective.

• When: Wednesday Oct. 7, 5:45-6:45 pm
• Where: EE 125
• RSVP: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/cseadv/85023

The panel consists of four industry representatives: one recent grad/engineer, one HR representative from a large company, one HR rep from a small company, and one hiring manager.

This year’s panelists:

• Hiring Manager: Tam Armstrong, Sony Media
• Recent CSE Grad: Brian Ma, Eggsprout
• Large Co. HR: Ben Mercer, Microsoft
• Small Co. HR: Joni Kimzey, Tableau Software

Moderator: Dave Rispoli, CSE Professional Master’s Program Advisor

Brian Ma will discuss his own job search after graduating from CSE. Tam Armstrong, another CSE alum, will discuss what his company looks for in employees.  Ben Mercer and Joni Kimzey will discuss how recruiting works within their large and small companies.

The panel is meant to be general — the represented companies may certainly provide some level of self-promotion, their focus will be on providing a peek inside the recruiting process so the students will know how to best prepare. We encourage you to attend even if you’re not considering employment at these specific companies!

Our moderator, Dave Rispoli, is the PMP adviser. He’ll be helping out with other ugrad career events.

The Employer Panel is first CSE recruiting prep event of the year. The panel consists of four employer representatives: one recent grad/engineer, one large company HR, one small company HR rep, and one hiring manager.  The purpose of the panel is to inform students about the recruiting process from the presenters’ perspective.  To accomplish this the recent grad will discuss their own job search, the hiring manager will discuss what they look for, and the HR reps will discuss how recruiting works within their company.  While the represented companies will certainly provide some level of self-promotion, their focus will be on providing a peek inside the recruiting process so the students will know how to best prepare. This year’s panelists: Hiring Manager: Tam Armstrong, Sony Media Recent CSE Grad: Brian Ma, Eggsprout Large Co. HR: Ben Mercer, Microsoft Small Co. HR: Joni Kimzey, Tableau Software Moderator: Dave Rispoli, CSE Professional Master’s Program Advisor Posted in category Events Internships careers by Raven on October 1, 2009

Hey everyone,

Welcome back to school.  We hope you had a restful time away.  Now that you’re back, we have about 96 new Accelerated and Upper division students joining our program this fall and 37 new freshman who need your expertise to show them around CSE. If you have at least one quarter of CSE courses under your belt, please help us out by being a mentor on the first day of school, Wednesday Sept 30th from 5-7pm.

Mentors should plan to be in the commons (room 691) by 5pm Wed. If you can help us out, please rsvp via the catalyst below  (please don’t send an rsvp via email unless you have questions/concerns,  our inbox is exponentially exploding these days…. erg)

RSVP Here

We need about 50-60 mentors, so please grab a CSE friend and come help, (yes there will be some food involved)

Thank you!!
Crystal, Megan and Raven