All Engineering & Computer Science Majors
Entrepreneurship Information Lunch
Tuesday, April 8
12:30–1:20
CSE 691
RSVP Here
Curious about the startup scene? Looking for the skills and experience you need to take your idea to the next level? Join us for lunch and learn about all the ways YOU can get involved in entrepreneurship at UW!
Some of the things we’ll talk about include:
You bring your curiosity – we’ll bring lunch! RSVP here.
Can’t make it to lunch on Tuesday? Come have lunch at one of our OPEN HOUSES at the Buerk Center on Wednesday or Thursday! All majors welcome!
April 9 & April 10
Dempsey 211
12:30-1:20
RSVP Here
March 27, 2014
CSE 477: Embedded Hardware/Software Capstone
Prof: Shwetak Patel
Spring 2014
The aim of 477 is to work on an end to end class project that combines hardware and software (i.e., embedded systems), which will prove valuable to have in your portfolio and resume. Taking multiple capstone classes allows you to broaden your experience and skills. This spring, we’ll also be talking about new embedded platforms, low-power wireless, learning about software radios, PCB layout and design, 3d printing, and other concepts. This year we are lucky to have access to a number of new embedded consumer electronics devices and platforms for use in the class.
Prerequisite: CSE 466 or EE 472 or demonstrated understanding of the concepts in CSE 466/EE 472. Please contact the instructor if you have any questions.
March 20, 2014
Advisers,
The Entrepreneurship minor application is now live for summer/autumn admission: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/caz1585/230290 with a due date of April 25, 2014 (technically 12:01am on April 26, 2014). The Buerk Center people are updating their web links, but should you get students inquiring, please feel free to send them the above link.
For more information on the Entrepreneurship minor, visit: http://www.foster.washington.edu/centers/entrepreneurship/Pages/EntreMinor.aspx
Best,
Cazandra
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Cazandra Santos │ Program Support Supervisor
Undergraduate Programs Office
Michael G. Foster School of Business
University of Washington
202 Dempsey Hall │ Box 353223
Seattle, WA 98195
Ph: 206.543.3849 │ Fax: 206.616.8225
www.foster.washington.edu/undergrad
March 20, 2014
Don’t miss the robotics colloquium this week!
Date/time: March 21, Friday, 2:30-3:30pm
Location: Gates Commons
Speaker: Gur Kimchi, Amazon
Title: Amazon Prime Air
Abstract:
We’re excited to share Prime Air — something our team has been working on in our next generation R&D lab right here in Seattle. The goal of this new delivery system is to get packages into customers’ hands in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles. Putting Prime Air into commercial use will take some number of years as we advance the technology and work with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on necessary rules and regulations. From a technology point of view, we’ll be ready to enter commercial operations as soon as the necessary regulations are in place. One day, Prime Air vehicles will be as normal as seeing mail trucks on the road today.
Bio:
Gur Kimchi is the VP of Profit Systems and Prime Air at Amazon.com. Gur joined Amazon’s Worldwide Retail Systems organization in 2012, building key platforms to manage Amazon’s “back office” and automating various retail processes. Gur leads the Prime Air team, a project garnering enormous attention since going public in November of 2013. The goal of Prime Air is to get packages into customers’ hands in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles. Prior to Amazon, Gur spent 10 years at Microsoft on the Contextual Mobile Search team, the MSN/Virtual Earth Core Platform team, and the Unified Communications team. He is a voracious reader, an avid skier, and enjoys spending time with his family.
*A reception will follow (3:30-4:30) an the Gates Commons. Hang around after the talk if you would like to talk to Gur and the team.
**There will be swag. I heard something about cool stickers.
***There might be actual drones. They have not confirmed this, so act surprised if drones show up.
Cheers,
-Maya
March 19, 2014
Hey folks,
It looks like most of you access this blog via direct mail to your email (which is how we generally set it up). The blog is nice as it’s easier to search than email we find, but we’ve decided that we want to move it to a password protected page. This will allow us a bit more freedom with our posting as right now it is open to the public.
The only folks this will likely effect are those of you using an RSS feed with the blog. It doesn’t appear that there are very many of you doing that, but if a lot of you feel this is the wrong move, by all means, speak up by sending me individual mail.
Otherwise, note that starting spring quarter, if you want to access the blog online, you’ll need to login with your CSE net ID credentials. The messages will still be sent to your inbox, nothing will change with that method of delivery. And, as always, we’ll try to add the filters (categories) on messages to help you stay organized.
CSE Advising
March 18, 2014
From: Brandon Ballinger
Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:29 PM
Subject: Last-minute advice for Y Combinator applicants
Garry Tan just posted last-minute advice for YC applicants:
The deadline is March 28.
If any UW CSE students are thinking about applying, I’d be happy to take a look at their app and give feedback! I’d love to see more Huskies get in. (contact CSE advising staff for Brandon’s email)
Brandon
March 18, 2014
Please join us for the following talk:
Can We Predict Viral Memes?
Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University Bloomington
Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Mary Gates Hall, Room 420
University of Washington, Seattle campus
Some videos, pictures, and memes spread through billions of people while others quickly die out. Is it because of the innate quality of the memes or because of the celebrities like Justin Bieber? Or, is it just random? In this study we focus on the early diffusion pattern of memes in terms of underlying social network structure and demonstrate that the future success of a meme can be predicted by quantifying its early spreading pattern, particularly using the community structures in the network.
Bio: Yong-Yeol Ahn is an assistant professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. in Statistical Physics from KAIST, South Korea in 2008 and worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Northeastern University and a visiting researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute before moving to Indiana University. His research focuses on the structure of networks in various complex systems such as society, culture, and living organisms.
For more information on this and other talks please visit: http://data.uw.edu/seminar
March 18, 2014
NEW COURSE OFFERING!
ENGR 202C, SPRING 2014
ENGINEERING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE:
A CRITICAL SEMINAR ON THE POLITICS AND POSSIBILITIES OF ENGINEERING
Join us this Spring quarter for an innovative new seminar! We’ll ask questions like:
- Is technology political? Who wins when a dam is built and who loses when an engineer designs a robot?
- What is the relationship between engineering, technology, society, ecology, and health?
- How can engineers work for social justice at the drawing board and in their daily lives?
- Who do we engineer for? Who defines the problems we solve? Whose work is considered engineering?
- Why are women and people of color still so underrepresented in engineering classrooms?
These questions and discussions of the context of the engineering discipline and the values undergirding the work of engineers is notably absent from most skill-focused engineering curricula. This seminar is intended to fill this gap by creating a space to reflect on the impact of engineers and technologies on society and to imagine a new kind of engineering and technological development for the common good.
The course is open to all levels and all majors, including non-engineers. Freshmen and sophomores considering engineering but with reservations are strongly encouraged to enroll. There are no prerequisites other than a desire to learn about the subject and participate actively in class. Course assignments will include readings, reflections, and conceptual designs.
Want to connect engineering and social justice?
ENGR 202 C | SLN#: 20932
Grading: 2 Credits | Credit/No Credit
Time: Tuesday, 2:30-4:20 pm | Room: Lowe 112
Facilitators: Daniel Ullom and Brian Park (CSE major!) | Faculty Advisor: Susan Bolton
March 18, 2014
Today (3/14) at 3:14 pm Google will be bring pies and coffee into the ACM lounge! Come enjoy some pies without rounding errors, in fact, they should be perfectly round.
March 14, 2014
