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Overview:

10/28 – Dropbox Tech Talk

10/30 – Hulu Office Hours

10/30 – Google Office Hours

10/30 – Mock Technical Interviews

10/31 – Googleween Costume Contest

10/31 – Yelp Tech Talk

11/1 – ACM Float Day

Dropbox Tech Talk: ‘A look inside your Dropbox: the tech that makes it all happen’

10/28; 6:00-7:00pm; EEB125

Join us for a tech talk! ‘A look inside your Dropbox: the tech that makes it all happen’ by engineer Ritu Vincent! Monday, October 28, 6:00 PM, EEB125 At Dropbox we’re building the home for people’s most important stuff – their photos, docs, and other treasured information. Our small team of engineers builds the thousands of complex parts that seamlessly handle over a billion files a day for over 200 million users, while delivering a product that’s easy enough for your grandparents to use. While we’ve built a great foundation, we’ve only just begun…

Hulu Office Hours

10/30; 11:00am-12:30pm; Atrium

Google Office Hours

10/30; 1:30-3:00pm; Atrium

Mock Technical Interviews

10/30; 6:00-8:15pm; CSE Building

If you are attending this event you should have already received an email from David Rispoli with details about this. All CSE undergraduates who will be looking for a full-time job over the next year should participate in this event. Hiring managers and engineers from several outstanding companies, including the big names—Amazon, Google and Microsoft—will run CSE students through a single half-hour simulated technical interview and provide individual feedback.

Googleween Costume Contest

10/31; 12:30-1:30pm; Atrium

COSTUME COMPETITION When it comes to holidays, Halloween is one of our favorites! You get candy corn, creepy crawlies, ghosts and goblins, blustery weather and the goopy joys of pumpkin carving all crammed into one glorious fall fun-fest. It’s also the one holiday where you can dress up as whatever you want — your favorite celebrity, your favorite animal or even, like one Google employee last year, your favorite gadget…

Show us what you’ve got for your chance to win some awesome prizes!

• WHAT: Googleween Costume Competition

• WHEN: 12:30 – 1:30pm, Thursday 31st October

• WHERE: Paul Allen Centre (CSE)

• WEAR: A Halloween costume!

google.com/jobs/students

Yelp Tech Talk: ‘A/B Testing at Yelp: How to Make Out Like a Bandit’

10/31; 5:30-6:30pm; EEB125

Come learn about A/B testing and multi-armed bandit algorithms from the OG bandit, Nat T. Get the low down on reasons to use them, how to implement them, and things to watch out for during experimentation from Nat’s personal projects at Yelp. FMI: https://www.facebook.com/events/1408663736019347/

ACM Float Day

11/1; 3:00-4:00pm; Atrium

Come join your fellow CSE majors and have a float!

ACM will be storing your backpacks in the lounge while you are at the career fair! Please use the this service to keep the atrium less congested.

The procedure will be: wait in line outside the ACM lounge, fill out the paper provided with last name, first name, student id, attach paper to backpack, wait to enter one at a time as attendant signals, then go as far back in the lounge as possible and leave your backpack.

To get backpack: wait to best let in, grab your backpack, show attendant your husky card and that it matches paper on backpack.

Greetings from Los Angeles!  I am pleased to inform you that I will be hosting two info sessions about graduate engineering opportunities at the University of Southern California.  We have received great interest from applicants at University of Washington in the past, and it would be greatly appreciated it if you could share this information with students who may be interested in Master’s, PhD, or summer research programs.  In addition, for those who choose to apply to a graduate program, I will have a limited number of application fee waivers ($85) that will be provided to qualified students.

Information and registration can be found via our website and I have listed the details below for your convenience.

Tuesday, November 5
6:00-7:30pm
Hotel Monaco
1101 Fourth Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
http://gapp.usc.edu/info-sessions/seattle-wa

Wednesday, November 6
5:30-6:30pm
University of Washington Career Center
134 Mary Gates, Seattle Campus

Refreshments will be served.

AIT also offers summer internships at major Hungarian software companies including LogMeIn and Prezi.

AIT also offers a one-month summer session from late May to late June.  You can combine that with the spring term to take additional courses (mobile software development and/or a course on the history of Budapest) – making the AIT spring + summer term equivalent to two academic quarters of credit.  You can also apply to just the AIT summer program.

While many AIT students are CS majors, the program welcomes all students with an interest and background in computation.  For example, students contemplating their own tech startup or with interests in application areas such as computational biology are likely to find the program compelling and rewarding.  CS majors will find that AIT offers a number of courses that are required for their major (e.g., theory of computation, algorithms, and others), making it possible to take both traditional major courses while also taking other courses that are unique to AIT.

The AIT program has a first-rate faculty including professors such as Erno Rubik (inventor of the Rubik’s Cube and recent recipient of the U.S. Outstanding Contributions to Science Education Award) teaching an extraordinary collection of courses, many of which are not available at most colleges or universities.

All classes are conducted in English on AIT’s lovely campus on the banks of the Danube River.  Students live in vibrant neighborhoods of Budapest and have ample opportunities to interact with Hungarian students and explore Hungary and the region.

AIT is small and friendly, with typical class sizes of 5-15 students.  Here are the schools from which students have come to AIT:  Amherst, Arizona State, Brown, Carleton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Gustavus Adolphus, Hampshire, Harvard, Harvey Mudd, Knox, Lewis and Clark, Macalaster, Mt. Holyoke, Oberlin, Olin, Pomona, Princeton, RPI, Rhodes, Rochester, Skidmore, Smith, St. Olaf, Swarthmore, Vassar, Williams, U. of Puget Sound, U. of Washington, Wesleyan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Yale.

The program also includes Hungarian students from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Applications for Spring 2014 are due November 1, applications for the summer term are due March 1, and applications for Fall 2014 are due April 1.

The AIT website and application materials are available at: www.ait-budapest.com

Prof. Ran Libeskind-Hadas (ran@cs.hmc.edu) and Prof. Michael Orrison (orrison@math.hmc.edu) at Harvey Mudd College are serving as the North American Co-Directors for AIT and are happy to answer any questions that you might have and/or put you in touch with current and former AIT students so that you can get their impressions directly.

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A CS professor is working with Unicef on a project supporting the Laos immunization system which will involve workers at health centers sending monthly reports by SMS which will then be automatically processed.    He has some questions relating to the use of text messaging in Laos, such as the preference of scripts, and the process for entering Lao (or Thai) characters.    If you are familiar with  Laos, and would be willing to answer a few short questions, please contact  Richard Anderson (anderson@cs.washington.edu)

Nat Guy

5-year Nintendo Employee

UW CSE PMP Student

Aero/Astro Student

CSE 403 TA

Software Development

in the Gaming Industry

Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013

9:30 – 10:20am

EEB 105

Nat draws on his work experience at Nintendo and

the advice of friends in the industry to present a

glimpse of software development in a specialized

application domain, the gaming industry. This talk

covers project roles, engineering specializations,

and common tools and languages used during the

development process taking a game from idea to

finished product. He also discusses career paths

and major players including Seattle-based

companies.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

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Overview:

10/21 – Chief Architect Tech Talk

10/21 – Intentional Software Tech Talk

10/22 – Startup Industry Affiliates Career Fair

10/22 – a16z tech talk/panel session

10/24 – Established Industry Affiliates Career Fair

10/25 – Madrona Office Hours

10/25 – Disney Info Session

Chief Architect Tech Talk

10/21; 5:30-6:30pm; Career Center lobby (MGH)

Chief Architect Software is the leading developer of home design software. For 21 years we have enhanced and refined our software applications that enable architects, design/build firms, and do-it-yourselfers to easily design living spaces. Our software development spans many areas including user interfaces, 3D graphics, geometry, cross platform development, multithreading, and large scale software design. We are hiring software engineers, web developers, and interns. Come to our tech talk and see our software in action as we explain how it works.

Intentional Software Tech Talk

10/21; 5:45-7:00pm; EEB125

TECH TALK INTENTIONAL SOFTWARE CONTEXT DRIVEN PROGRAMMING Shane Clifford, VP of Engineering Thursday/Oct 10 @ 5:45-7:00 PM ROOM – EEB125 Light Food & Beverages Intentional Software (ISC) is the software development company founded by Charles Simonyi, former Chief Architect of Microsoft and arguably the most successful programmer in the world. As chief designer for Word and Excel he changed how people use computers. And now he needs your help changing how knowledge work is done in the future. At ISC we have pursued the concept of “intentional software” that captures the intentions and knowledge of the users (domain) and displays it in a variety of visual projections in a structured editing environment. We are pioneering the world’s leading language workbench technology and are initially applying it to create domain specific knowledge intensive workbenches for clients with high value problems that no-one else can solve.

Startup Industry Affiliates Career Fair

10/22; 3:00-6:00pm; Atrium

A list of participating companies at Tuesday’s startup fair may be viewed at: http:.//www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2013/meeting/startup_recruit/

Student info for recruiting fairs: https://www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2013/student_recruiting/

A16z Tech Talk/Panel Session

10/22; 6:30-8:00pm; EEB105

Established Industry Affiliates Career Fair

10/24; 11am-4pm; Atrium + Gates Commons

UW Study Abroad Fair

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

10am-2pm

Mary Gates Hall Commons

Thinking about studying abroad but don’t know how to get started or what is available? Need help identifying a program that is right for you?  Go to the UW Study Abroad Fair on Wednesday, October 23^rd, from 10 am-2 pm in Mary Gates Hall Commons. Over 500 study and internship programs will be represented providing an ideal venue to gather program information, compare options, ask questions and receive answers about the wide range of foreign study opportunities available to UW students. Where in the World will YOU go?

For more details about the fair and schedule of break-out sessions please click here.  **One of the break-out sessions will be “Study Abroad for STEM Students”. Check it out!