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ACM Events Digest 11/4-11/8

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Overview:

11/4 – Redfin Tech Talk

11/5 – Microsoft Tech Talk

11/6 – Hulu Office Hours

11/6 – Google Office Hours

11/6 – Facebook Tech Talk

11/7 – Delphix Tech Talk

Redfin Tech Talk: How to make the world take notice of your idea

11/4; 5:30-7:30pm; EEB125

It’s one thing to come up with a business idea- it’s another to get the public to stand up and take notice Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman is coming Monday, November 4th to the UW to teach you the secret, shoestring tactics that will get your start-up company noticed. He’ll show you how with no PR team and no formal training, he was featured in major national publications (including the front page of the NY Times!) and began attracting customers in droves.

Microsoft Tech Talk

11/5; 6:00-7:30pm; EEB105

meet.the.company. come learn how you can Be What’s Next! Tuesday, November 5th | 6:00PM EE105 Food will be provided Bring your resume for a chance to win a Surface RT and other awesome prizes! Questions? Want to apply online? www.microsoft.com/university

Hulu Office Hours

11/6; 11:00am-12:30pm; Atrium

Google Office Hours

11/6; 1:30-3:00pm; Atrium

Facebook Tech Talk

11/6; 6:30-7:30pm; EEB125

Join Facebook for a tech talk hosted by Facebook Engineers and UW Alumni Ashoat Tevosyan, Tom Jackson and Ethan Phelps-Goodman. Learn about search engines and how they work from the team that shipped Post Search. Please do us a favor and RSVP so that we know to expect you. Also, add any of your friends to this event that you think might be interested as well. Facebook is hiring brilliant engineers for full-time and internship opportunities. Our positions are live on Huskyjobs apply today!

RSVP at: http://fburl.me/bpf

Apply today at: www.facebook.com/university

Delphix Tech Talk: Inventing the Future of Data Management

11/7; 6:00-7:00pm; EEB125

* Instant database copies

* Data version control

* Quick refresh, rewind, and fast-forward

Food from Chipotle

November 4, 2013

Web Platform Doc Sprint @ UW Seattle

The Internet Explorer Developer Relations Team is hosting a Doc Sprint @
the HUB Building on the UW Campus in Seattle on November 2, 2013.

More information, including registration, available here:
https://uwdocsprint.eventbrite.com/.

CS Student? Web developer? Web designer? Technical writer? Internet
Enthusiast? Survived Halloween festivities? Join us for this unique
opportunity to learn and help document the web on WebPlatform.org!

WebPlatform.org is an open community of developers building resources for
a better web, regardless of brand, browser or platform. Anyone can
contribute and each person who does makes it stronger. Together we can
continue to drive innovation on the Web to serve the greater good.

This Doc Sprint is all about making it easy for anyone to contribute
articles, samples, tutorials, overviews, and insights. Learn about
webplatform.org, how to contribute, and help grow the definitive reference
site for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and more.

This is your chance to create/review articles that will become the
reference for millions of web professionals around the world: come leave
your mark (and name!) in web history!

WebPlatform.org is convened by W3C and is made possible by the support of
the Web Platform Stewards.

Please bring your own computer. We will serve Halloween snacks, lunch &
drinks, and yes, there will be some cool swag & a Surface Pro for you to
win!

Enrolled students will also receive an official participation certificate
signed by Microsoft and the W3C – something you can definitely attach to
your resume!

A better web starts here – with you!

November 1, 2013

Sunday ACM Lounge Fridge Cleanout

The ACM officers will be cleaning the fridges in the ACM lounge THIS SUNDAY! Anything left in the fridge (including tupperware) will be thrown out, so please come and collect your items. Thank you!

November 1, 2013

ACM Float Day Today!

Need a break from studying? Come float over the CSE Atrium and enjoy some floats with your fellow CSE Majors!  ACM will be in the atrium from 3:00-4:00pm today serving up delicious floats.

When: TODAY 3:00-4:00pm

Where: CSE Atrium

What: Floats!

 

November 1, 2013

Youtube Music Awards Viewing

YouTube Music Awards Viewing!
Come out to the first-ever YouTube Music Awards live from NYC! You’ll get a chance to see all the stars on YouTube competing for different awards! There’ll be prizes, trivia, and of course, YouTube videos! There will be a raffle for a FREE NEXUS 7 and of course, FREE FOOD!
 
The awards start at 3:00pm, but get there at 1:30pm and join us in some trivia challenges in order to up your chances of winning that Nexus 7!
 
Make sure to RSVP so there’s enough food for everyone!!
 
The teams are formed promptly at 1:30pm so don’t be late.
When: Sunday November 3rd at 1:30pm
Where: SAV 260
October 31, 2013

Two talks next week

Please join us next week as we host our second Distinguished Lecture…

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, Washington 98195
Computer Science and Engineering
*DISTINGUISHED LECTURE*

SPEAKER:   Silvio Micali, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (CSAIL)

TITLE:     Proofs, Secrets, and Computation

DATE:      Thursday, November 7, 2013
TIME:      3:30pm
PLACE:     EEB-105
HOST:      Anna Karlin

ABSTRACT:
We show how Theory of Computation has revolutionized our millenary notion
of a proof, revealing its unexpected applications to our new digital
world.

In particular, we shall demonstrate how interaction can make proofs much
easier to verify, dramatically limit the amount of knowledge released, and
yield the most secure identification schemes to date.

Bio:
Silvio Micali has received his Laurea in Mathematics from the University
of Rome, and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California
at Berkeley. Since 1983 he has been on the MIT faculty, in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science Department, where he is Ford Professor of
Engineering.

Silvio’s research interests are cryptography, zero knowledge,
pseudo-random generation, secure protocols, and mechanism design.

Silvio is the recipient of the Turing Award (in computer science), of the
Goedel Prize (in theoretical computer science) and the RSA prize (in
cryptography). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the
National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.

Reception to follow the talk in the Atrium, Paul G. Allen Center for
Computer Science & Engineering.

*NOTE* This lecture will be broadcast live via the Internet. See
http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html for more information.

Email: talk-info@cs.washington.edu
Info: http://www.cs.washington.edu/
(206) 543-1695

The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal
opportunity and reasonable accomodation in its services, programs,
activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities.
To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services
Office at least ten days in advance of the event at: (206) 543-6450/V,
(206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or email at
dso@u.washington.edu.
_______________________

 

Please join the eScience Institute Wednesday, November 6, 4:00 pm in SIEG HALL Room 233.  Refreshments will be provided.

Clark Gaylord (Virginia Tech Transportation Institute):

Data-intensive Scientific Workflow and “Big Data” in Transportation Research

 

The Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) Naturalistic Driving Study is a cornerstone of transportation safety research, led by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI). VTTI researchers innovated the naturalistic driving study methodology, and previous VTTI efforts, for example the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) “100 Car” study, have made ground-breaking contributions to the field of transportation safety. The SHRP2 study observes over 3,000 participants in their normal day-to-day driving to understand how the driver interacts with and adapts to the vehicle, traffic environment, roadway characteristics, traffic control devices, and the environment. The study concludes data collection in December 2013, resulting in a repository of over 1.5PB of heterogeneous data, with expected useful life of over 20 years.

In this talk, we will discuss the data challenges of naturalistic driving studies and peta-scale data-intensive science. These data in various ways satisfy the “volume, velocity, and variety” we often associate with “Big Data”, while at the same time being gathered in a rather “data collection hostile” environment. This presents some unique challenges not only of scale but data management and quality. The infrastructure to manage and analyze these data are as varied as the data, with peta-scale cluster file systems, parallel databases, and compute clusters. Mr Gaylord will describe various aspects of these challenges and how they are addressed, from VTTI’s data center architecture to data models, as well as sharing some “lessons learned”.  The design of VTTI’s scalable “agent-based” workflow engine will also be described in some detail.

 

 

Mr. Clark Gaylord is the chief information officer for the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) and director of VTTI’s data center operations. He is the principal architect of VTTI’s “Scientific Data Warehouse”, integrating high-performance computing, parallel database, and peta-scale file system technologies to enable VTTI’s data-intensive scientific research. Since 2008, Mr. Gaylord has led VTTI’s strategic direction for information technology, data center infrastructure, “Big Data” data management and analysis.

 

Mr. Gaylord has been at Virginia Tech in various capacities for over twenty years and has held several roles of IT leadership. Prior to joining VTTI, he was IT Operations Lead with the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Lead Research Engineer with Virginia Tech’s Telecommunications Auxiliary.

 

VTTI’s was the recipient of CIO Magazine’s “CIO 100” award in 2012 for the effective use of large scale data intensive and high performance computing infrastructure.

 

October 31, 2013

Study Abroad with the Honors Program — Open to ALL students (not only honors)

Dear Honors Community,

Please let your students know about the Honors Study Abroad Programs for the upcoming year.

During 2014-2015 Honors will offer faculty-led programs in New Zealand, Amsterdam, Rome & Venice, Spain, and Oxford; and direct exchanges to Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, and Tokyo. ALL students are welcome to apply.  Credit available includes Honors core credit (areas of knowledge designated) as well as departmental credits (program specific, please see individual program websites below). All Honors cores designations carry the related Areas of Knowledge designations.  Also, Honors prefix courses are designated “W” credit.
“New Zealand: Community and Environmental Health”
“Rome to Venice: Mediterranean Crossings”
Information Sessions: 
Wednesday, Nov. 20th at 12:30pm in MGH 211B (Honors Seminar Room)
Tuesday, Jan. 14th at 3:30pm in MGH 211B (Honors Seminar Room)
Application due January 17, 2014


“Oxford: Debates of Science and the Humanities” 

Oxford, England, Summer B Term 2014 

Tuesday, Dec. 3rd at 12:30pm in MGH 211B (Honors Seminar Room)
Tuesday, Jan. 7th at 12:30pm in MGH 211B (Honors Seminar Room)
Application due January 17, 2014.
“Crime, Law and Justice in Comparative Perspective”
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Summer A Term 2014 (a program offered through Honors and LSJ!)
Information Sessions:
Monday, Dec. 2nd at 3:00pm in MGH 211E (Honors Library)
Wednesday, Dec. 4th at 1:00pm in MGH 211E (Honors Library)
Wednesday, Jan. 15th at 1:00pm in MGH 211B (Honors Seminar Room)
Tuesday, Jan. 21st at 1:00pm in MGH 211B (Honors Seminar Room)
Application due January 24, 2014
“Spain: Wild Places and Forest Lands in Spain: International Environmental Law and Land Management”
Spain, Exploration Seminar 2014 (offered through Honors, Program on the Environment, and the School of Law)
More information about the information session TBA!
Application due March 1, 2014. 

Germany, Argentina, Netherlands, Tokyo

Wednesday, November 6th, 12:30 – 1:30pm in MGH 206.
Application due November 15, 2013. 


For more information about Honors International at UW visit:
http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/international/

For general UW Honors Program information visit:
http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/

You may also contact Associate Director, Honors Program, Julie Villegas at: villegas@uw.edu

 

_____________________________
Julie S. Villegas
Associate Director
International Programs, Lead
University Honors Program
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Department of English

211 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352800
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington  98195-2800

(206) 543-7172
(206) 543-7444
(206) 543-6469 (Fax)
villegas@uw.edu

http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/

October 30, 2013

Come to the ACM Float Day!

This Friday take a break from studying for midterms and have some floats with other CSE Majors!  Come down to the CSE atrium at 3:00-4:00pm to enjoy some rootbeer floats, or any other kind of float that you want.

 

When: Friday 11/1, 3:00-4:00pm

Where: CSE Atrium

What: Floats!

October 29, 2013

Apply now for Google Scholarships! – Deadline: December 2!

At Google, we believe information should be universally accessible.  Our education and scholarship programs aim to inspire and help students become future leaders in computing and technology by breaking down the barriers that prevent them from entering these fields.  If selected, scholarship recipients will each receive a $10,000 scholarship for the 2014-2015 academic year and be invited to attend the all-expense paid Annual Google Scholars’ Retreat at the Googleplex this summer.  Scholarships will be awarded based on the strength of applicants’ academic background, leadership, and demonstrated passion for computer science.

Please see below for a list of open scholarships.  All scholarship applications are due on December 2, 2013.

Google Anita Borg Scholarship is open to current female undergraduate or graduate students who will be studying at a university in the United States or Canada for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Generation Google Scholarship is open to current undergraduate or graduate students from an underrepresented background in computer science who will be studying at a university in United States or Canada for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Google Lime Scholarship is open to current undergraduate or graduate students with disabilities who will be studying at a university in United States or Canada for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Google SVA Scholarship for student veterans is open to current undergraduate or graduate student veterans who will be studying at a university in the United States for the 2014-2015 academic year.

For complete details on all of our scholarships, please visit www.google.com/students/scholarships.

October 29, 2013

The Shobe Prize for dub Entrepreneurs

Have an awesome idea? Turn your tech or design idea into reality

The Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) is pleased to announce the fourth annual startup competition for the Shobe Prize.

Student teams competing will submit a proposal for a tech-focused or software-based design project on Friday, January 24. Finalists will then pitch their proposal to the panel of judges in winter 2014. The winning designs could be a web service, mobile device app, or another service for personal computing and communications.

Judges will select up to two winning student teams to receive $5,000 to $10,000, office space, and one-on-one mentorship from faculty and industry for six months over the winter and spring, in order to develop their project into a prototype and a sales pitch.

At the end of the spring, the winning student teams will have the opportunity to pitch their ideas to a judging panel of professors and industry representatives. The student teams will benefit by receiving guidance and mentoring, getting professional feedback on their final presentations, and having the opportunity to take their ideas to the next step toward realization as products.

Incredible prizes for up to TWO Teams!

  • $5,000 start-up funding per team ($10,000 total)
  • One-on-one mentoring with industry experts and faculty over winter and spring 2014
  • Professional feedback on presentations
  • Guidance on commercializing your product
  • Office space
  • Networking opportunities

Phase 1. Info Session with Matt Shobe

Matt Shobe is an HCDE graduate, experienced entrepreneur, and mentor to startups. Learn how to put together a quick pitch for your tech or design idea! Monday, November 4, 2-3 p.m. in the HCDE Design Lab (Sieg 233).

Phase 2. Informal Quick Pitch

Nothing written required (yet!)—just come share your idea and get friendly feedback from mentors on Friday, January 24.

Phase 3. Final Pitch

(By invitation) in early February.

Eligibility: Each team must have at least one matriculated student (undergraduate or graduate) enrolled in any of the UW departments involved in dub

Informal Quick Pitch Deadline: Friday, January 24

Download a PDF of the contest announcement

October 28, 2013

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