CSE Undergrad News

Hack to end Homelessness

Ed Lazowska

10:58 AM (22 hours ago)

to Cs-Grads, cs-ugrads

FYI

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Ethan <ethanpg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:29 PM
Subject: Hack to End Homelessness
To: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>

Hi Ed,

I’m a former CSE PhD student (started in ’03 and left in ’07). I’m co-organizing an event in May called Hack to End Homelessness. You may have heard us promoting at last week’s Seattle Tech Meetup.

We’re trying to get technologists of all sorts to turn out May 2-4 to work with non-profits on addressing homelessness. I’m hoping UW students can be a big part of that. What’s the best way for me to get the word out to both grad and undergrad students? Would you be able to forward something on to the relevant groups?

We’re asking software professionals to pay $100 to help cover the costs of renting the venue and providing food from Friday-Sunday. But for UW students we’re offering a $35 ticket using the code ‘UWHACKS35’. And if the fee is still an obstacle for anyone they can email us and we’ll waive the fee entirely.

If you’re able to share an announcement, I’ll leave you with two pieces of copy. There’s the short announcement here, and a longer announcement at the end of the email:

Hack to End Homelessness, on May 2-4, brings together the best minds in technology and design to work with Seattle non-profits on ending homelessness. Designers and developers are invited to sign up today for an intense weekend of learning, designing and hacking. Bring your own ideas or work with one of our many non-profit partners on their urgent technology needs. More information at http://www.hacktoendhomelessness.com/.

Thanks for your help!

Ethan Phelps-Goodman

Want to build a social network that empowers the homeless community? Create an app to help homeless youth find shelter? Mine and visualize data on the true causes and solutions to homelessness?

Join us on May 2-4 for an intense weekend of designing, hacking and learning at Impact Hub Seattle! Designers, developers, social media experts, marketers, storytellers, and all other varieties of innovator are invited. Bring your own ideas or work side-by-side with one of our many non-profit partners on their urgent technology needs.

Build Something that Matters.

Hack to End Homelessness

7pm Friday, May 2 — 7pm Sunday, May 4

Impact Hub Seattle

220 Second Ave South

Seattle WA 98104

April 23, 2014

UW Business students survey

Ed Lazowska

10:39 AM (22 hours ago)

to Cs-Grads, cs-ugrads

A group of MBA students in UW’s Foster School of Business is conducting a survey for Amazon.com regarding perceptions of the company, to help inform the company’s “branding” to potential employees. It’s a “final project” for the MBA students.

The MBA students asked me to forward the survey to CSE students. That’s their exclusive target audience; they would like to get several hundred responses from CSE students.

The survey is *confidential*. If you provide your email address you will receive a $5 AMZN gift certificate for your trouble (whoopie ding …). Providing your email address will *not* affect the confidentiality of your survey response.

I’m not “asking you to do this” – it’s entirely up to you. But helping students in other UW programs, and helping Amazon, are both worthwhile.

Here’s the link:

http://washington.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9XYBugeAGKsro8Z

April 23, 2014

From Ed: vote for CSE’s Ambient Backscatter at GeekWire’s Innovation of the Year

FYI: if (like me) you’re having a hard time finding the poll on the page Ed linked, you may need to open the page in an ads-and-other-crap-enabled browser.

No representation without taxation!

Dan

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Daniel Halperin

Director of Research for Scalable Analytics

eScience Institute

University of Washington

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu> wrote:

It will take you only a minute to support CSE’s Ambient Backscatter as GeekWire’s “Innovation of the Year.”

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/geekwire-awards-vote-innovation-year/

For additional information, and our ever-evolving set of ballot recommendations, see the news post here:

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2014/04/18/vote-for-cses-ambient-backscatter-for-geekwires-innovation-of-the-year/

April 22, 2014

Last Day For ACM and ACM-W Election Nominations!

ACM and ACM-W elections are coming up!

Who would you like to see in office next year? Know someone with great ideas? A proactive leader? Someone who loves being involved with the CSE community? Specific officer roles will be determined in the future. We will notify nominees with further steps after the nomination period ends.

You may nominate multiple people, including yourself, here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/231493

If you cannot view this WebQ, please contact Jennifer at apacible[at]cs.washington[dot]edu.

This survey will close TODAY, Monday, April 21, 2014 at 5pm.

April 21, 2014

ACM Events Digest 4/21-4/25

For more information and immediate event notification, please like us on facebook or follow us on twitter.

Overview:

4/21 – Algorithms Night

4/21 – Typed Weekly

4/23 – TCS Info Session

4/24 – Programming Competition Prep

4/24 – Mobile Development Series

Algorithms Night: Decision Making

April 21; 6:00 – 7:00pm; CSE 403

Interested in learning some interesting and practical metaheuristic algorithms? Be sure to come to algorithms night!

FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/281961278637817

Typed Weekly: Javascript Alternatives

April 21; 6:00 – 7:30pm; CSE 203

Following up on the previous week of Javascript, we will explore three relatively new languages that seeks to overthrow Javascript (by compiling into it).

FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/247124948826330

TCS Info Session

April 23; 6:00-7:30pm; EEB 105

Calling all future Software Engineers Information Session & Resume Drop Where: Electrical Engineering Bldg, Room EE105 When: Wednesday, Ap ril 23, 2014 Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm Students majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering are encouraged to bring resumes and meet with TCS recruiters following the session. Food & Raffles tcs.com/careers/campus twitter.com/TCSCampus facebook.com/TCSCollegeRelations We are an equal opportunity employer.

Programming Competition Prep: Dynamic Programming

April 24; 4:00 – 5:00pm; CSE 403

Dynamic Programming: when your big problem is just too hard to solve. Continuing with our series on programming competition prep, Daniel Epstein will explain dynamic programming, why it’s awesome, and how it can be used to solve difficult problems. This week’s practice will be more hands-on: not only will we go through a couple problems as a group, but you’ll get to try your hand at solving some real competition problems on your own. Bring a laptop!

FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1428038977451563

Mobile Development Series: iOS

April 24; 5:30 – 7:30pm; CSE 403

Interested in making iOS apps? Join us for a talk on mobile development for iOS, led by Amit Burstein. No prior experience is required!

FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/574248882683394

April 21, 2014

ACM and ACM-W Election Nominations!

ACM and ACM-W elections are coming up!

Who would you like to see in office next year? Know someone with great ideas? A proactive leader? Someone who loves being involved with the CSE community? Specific officer roles will be determined in the future. We will notify nominees with further steps after the nomination period ends.

You may nominate multiple people, including yourself, here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/231493

If you cannot view this WebQ, please contact Jennifer at apacible[at]cs.washington[dot]edu.

This survey will close on Monday, April 21, 2014 at 5pm.

April 19, 2014

CSE Animation Course Series 2014-2015 information sessions coming up

Want to learn more about the 2014-2015 animation course series? Attend an info session!

www.cs.washington.edu/research/ap

When:

Monday, April 21st @ 2:00-3:30 PM
Wednesday, April 30th @ 3:00-5:00 PM
Thursday, May 8th @ 3:30-5:00 PM
Tuesday, May 20th @ 5:00-7:00 PM

Where:

Paul G. Allen Center room 691 (Gates Commons, 6th floor)

What:

Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) and the Animation Research Labs invite you to an information session on the Animation Production undergraduate course sequence at UW Seattle. This sequence runs from Summer 2014 (A term) through Spring 2015. The Summer course, Story Design for Computer Animation, is highly recommended but optional.

The Animation Capstone culminates in a very professional and exciting collaboratively produced digital short film, similar in process to Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks productions. Examples of previous award winning films produced in the dept will be shown and questions regarding applications and admission, etc. will be addressed. We look forward to seeing you there. Light refreshments will be served.

April 18, 2014

TATA Consulting Services Information Session & Resume Drop

Calling all future Software Engineers!

TATA Consulting Services Information Session & Resume Drop
Where: Electrical Engineering Bldg, Room EE105
When: Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm

Food & Raffles including Visa gift cards!
Students majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering are encouraged to bring resumes and meet with TCS recruiters following the session.

tcs.com/careers/campus
twitter.com/TCSCampus
facebook.com/TCSCollegeRelations

April 16, 2014

Share ideas and build your mobile development network at the MobileUXCamp this weekend!

MobileUXCamp Seattle is an unconference that brings together professionals, academics, and mobile enthusiasts to share the current state and future direction of mobile technologies. Since this is an unconference, it’s cheap, fun, and casual. Share your projects and ideas with other web/ux people from local tech companies. There will be people from Amazon, Microsoft, Blink and other academic institutions, too.

MobileUXCamp Seattle 2014
Saturday, May 17 8:30am-5:30pm
Mary Gates Hall, UW
$25 general, $10 students
http://mobileuxcampseattle.org

Hosted by Forum One Communications and the UW Information School

Plus, some great giveaways — and doughnuts from Top Pot! Hope to see you there!

April 16, 2014

Help the Arboretum with a focus group (plus, free food!)

“My name is Eve Rickenbaker and I’m a graduate student in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. My research involves understanding the UW student perception of the Washington Park Arboretum. The ultimate goal is to create a better visitor experience for you. I need approximately 6 students to participate in each focus (discussion) group in Suzzallo Library.

All undergraduate and graduate students are eligible and invited to participate even if you have never visited or heard of the Washington Park Arboretum. Each student’s perspective is valuable.

PIZZA and drinks will be provided as my way of thanking you for your time and participation.

Ask a fellow UW student friend to join you!

There are two upcoming focus groups and if you are interested in participating in one, please respond to me soon!

everickenbaker@yahoo.com

Monday, April 21, 12:30-2:30, Suzzallo Library, Room 334
or
Thursday, April 24, 12:30-2:30, Suzzallo Library, Room 335

I’m grateful for your help. Thank YOU!!”

April 16, 2014