CSE Undergrad News

Hi,

This talk is open to all ugrads:

This week’s UWctf (Batman’s Kitchen) meeting is on Wednesday, 9 October, at 5:30p in CSE room 303.  Amanda Crowell from iSEC will give a talk about her job in a security company.  Her talk will cover:

        * Her path to the security industry (she didn’t know what C++ was when she first stepped foot into college…)

        * What is “security”?   What does it mean?  What kinds of security are there?  What kinds of defenses are there?

        * What’s it like to be a consultant?

        * The Seattle security scene

See you Wednesday!

Melody Kadenko, Batman’s Kitchen Advisor

Computer Science & Engineering

UW ACM wants to help get out those career fair jitters and questions that most everyone has. On printing enough resumes and being aware of our Affiliates recruiting policy, come learn about our upcoming career fairs and get some tips on how to get the most out of them! Please ask and vote for questions on the Facebook event page, so that we can answer the most popular questions at the event.

Event details:

CSE Affiliates Career Fair Info Session

October 18th, 2013 – 4:30-5:30pm

EEB125

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

Overview:

10/7 – Hulu tech talk, EE125, 6:00 p.m.

10/8 – VMware Lunch & Learn, EE303, 1:30-2:30

10/8 – Resume review, Atrium, 2:30-5:30 p.m

10/8 – VMware tech talk, EE105, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

10/9 – Hulu office hours, Atrium, 11-12:30

10/9 – Google office hours, Atrium, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

10/9 – Isilon tech talk, EE125, 6:30 p.m.

10/10 – Nike is bringing lunch! Atrium, 12 noon

10/10 – CSE Internship Panel, EE303, 4:30-5:30pm

10/10 – Nike x U DUB + Nike + Fuelband

10/10 – Intentional Software tech talk, EE125, 5:45-7:00 p.m.

10/11 – Madrona office hours, Atrium, 11-12:30

Hulu Tech Talk

10/7: 6 p.m., EEB125

Hosts:
Ken McGrady
– Northeastern University Alum
– Currently works in the Seattle office with the living room devices team

Jon Luo
– Univ. of Washington Alum
– Currently works in the Seattle office on the living room devices team

Topic:
Personalization: How Hulu Measures and Tailors the Experience to You.

When:
Monday, October 7th at 6pm

Where:
CS Building- EEB125

+food and drinks will be available

VMWare Tech Talk

10/8: 1:30-2:30 p.m., EE303

Abstract:
Most people associate VMware with hypervisors. Why do 500,000 customers (including 100% of the Fortune 100) pay VMware more than four billion dollars every year when they can download the VMware hypervisor for free? VMware’s most popular product is vSphere, their datacenter operating system. We  will informally review a sample of the technological capabilities of vSphere and leave plenty of time for any questions you might have about VMware, vSphere, life in a tech company, projects, career advice, or more.

Speaker Bio:  Jon Herlocker is a senior technologist at VMware. Currently his role is the Chief Technology Officer for Log Insight at VMware where he owns all research & development for the VMware vCenter Log Insight product. In roles prior to VMware he has been CTO and VP of Engineering of Mozy, and an Associate Professor of CS at Oregon State.

Resume review

10/8: 2:30-5:30 p.m., Atrium

HR reps and engineers from all the major local software employers will be on hand to review CSE undergraduate resumes and provide tips to make them and you stand out.

VMWare Tech Talk

10/8: 5:30 -7:30pm, EE105

Delivering the Software-Defined Datacenter and the Next-Generation of IT Keynote by: Jack Lo – Vice President R&D at VMware

Software Techniques for Avoiding Hardware Virtualization Exits Tech Talk by: Jim Mattson On modern processors, hardware-assisted virtualization outperforms classical binary translation for most workloads.  But hardware virtualization has a potential problem: virtualization exits are expensive. While hardware virtualization executes guest instructions at native speed, guest/VMM transitions can sap performance.  Hardware designers attacked this problem both by reducing guest/VMM transition costs and by adding architectural extensions such as nested paging support to avoid exits. We will go over the complementary software techniques for reducing the exit frequency. Come learn about VMware and the technologies we work on!

Speaker Bios:  Jack Lo is Vice President of VMware’s Core Storage and Availability R&D team, which is responsible for the vSphere storage stack as well as High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Data Protection technologies. Prior to joining VMware, Jack was Director of Software Engineering at Transmeta Corporation.  He holds B.S./M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, under the guidance of Susan Eggers and Hank Levy.

Jim Mattson is a senior staff engineer in the virtual machine monitor group at VMware.  He received an A.B. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from UCSD in 1993.  Prior to joining VMware, he worked on binary translation technology for Hewlett-Packard and Transmeta.

Stop by for free food, great giveaways and a chance to win a Beats by Dre Headset!

Hulu Office Hours

10/9: 11-12:30pm, Atrium

Google office Hours

10/9: 1:30-3:00pm, Atrium

Isilon Tech Talk

10/9: 6:30 p.m., EE125

EMC Isilon Tech Talk

Speaker: Casey Peel – Software Engineer, October 9 @ 6:30pm, EEB125 Food/Drinks provided

EMC Isilon builds the world’s largest, fastest filesystem using clustered computing development in both the kernel and userspace, delivering a proprietary distributed filesystem on top of FreeBSD.

Learn how you can solve challenging problems in scalability, help drive cloud computing and storage to new levels, and work where you can make a difference.  Visit me.emc.com, or email Alex.Brynza@Isilon.com to learn more about our opportunities.

Nike Is Bringing Lunch

10/10: 12:00 noon, Atrium

Come grab some and chat with reps from Nike. JOIN US FOR A MEAL AND CHAT WITH US ABOUT YOUR INTEREST IN NIKE TECHNOLOGY!

COMING? RSVP HERE: http://nike.avature.net/college?tags=UDUBCDTLUNCH13.

AS ALWAYS, DRESS IS NIKE CASUAL!

Nike x U DUB + Nike+Fuelband

10/10: 3:30-4:30pm, Mary Gates Hall 134

Please join Michelle Prussing, Director, DIGITAL GEO EXPANSION, for exclusive insight into NIKE CONSUMER DIGITAL TECH and careers in CDT COMING? RSVP at http://nike.avature.net/college?tags=UDUBCDTLUNCH13 As always, dress is Nike casual!

CSE Internship Panel

10/10: 4:30-5:30pm, EE303

COE co-op and internship office is hosting an internship panel featuring students who recently completed their internship. Below is the list of employers where the panelists worked. CSE Student Internship Panel October 10, 2013 4:30pm EEB 303 Amazon (2) Boeing eBay Facebook (2) Groundspeak Groupon VoiceBox Yahoo Zillow

Intentional Software Tech Talk

10/10: 5:45-&:00pm, EEB125

CONTEXT DRIVEN PROGRAMMING

Shane Clifford, VP of Engineering

Thursday/Oct 10 @ 5:45-7:00 PM, ROOM – EEB125

Light Food & Beverages

Madrona Office Hours

10/11: 11:00-12:30pm, Atrium

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!

The University of Washington’s Underwater Robotics Club (UWROV) is recruiting new members in Computer Science and Engineering to help construct an underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV).  The ROV will compete in the international MATE (Marine Advanced Technology Education) competition held in Michigan this June.  Members will be responsible for a certain aspect of the project throughout the entire building phase.  This will include designing, building, testing, documenting and raising funds.  All backgrounds and experience levels are welcome!  If you are interested or have any questions please attend our informational meeting next Tuesday, October 8th at 5:30pm.  We will be meeting in our shop at the Old Ocean Building (OCE) room 158.

If you still want to signup for the local ACM programming contest, but don’t have a team yet? Fill out the individual signup survey and we will pair you up at the event. We still have room for more teams as well, so if you have a chance continue to signup your teams!

Individual Signups: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/clintm3/214436 

Team Signups: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/reges/214151

Do you want to know how the brain works?

Do you have a taste for or interest in math or programming? Would you like to learn more about how you can apply mathematical methods to analyze the workings of the mind or build neural interfaces? The Computational Neuroscience program is a two-year program consisting of a set of required courses and opportunities to participate in paid research in laboratories working on theoretical and quantitative neuroscience. Our goal is to encourage and enable you to cross disciplinary boundaries to address questions concerning the algorithms of computation in nervous systems—from single neurons to behavior. We are looking for students with a good quantitative background, an active curiosity and an interest in delving into basic neurobiology in a quest to unravel the workings of the brain.

The program will be appropriate for two types of applicants:

• Students interested in completing the neurobiology major who have or are willing to undertake some mathematical or computational courses to improve their analytical and modeling skills;

• Students in a quantitative major such as CSE, EE, Applied Mathematics, Statistics or Physics who are willing to take courses to obtain a solid grounding in neurobiology

Special benefits of the program include mentoring and access to research opportunities.

Please visit our website at http://compneuro.washington.edu/ to learn more about the program, our students and the research of faculty who are associated with it. Important dates:

n  INFORMATION SESSION 4pm October 7^th in Johnson 102.

n  Applications are due OCT 11^th.

Instead of the traditional programming contest that Stuart Reges and Marty Stepp have setup in the past, Stuart Reges is running a local ACM contest to determine which teams will represent us at the regional competition. The contest will be this Saturday from noon to 5 in the basement labs. Pizza and prizes will be provided. Register a team of three at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/reges/214151.  The deadline to signup is TODAY at 10 so act quickly!