Many of you are asking about how to register for research. Please note the process is entirely automated and the steps are all online on the research pages.
Snacks & Swag by Zulily!
Come check the ACM Lounge around noon for some tasty treats and sweet swag from Zulily!
UW computer security team looking for new members, info session tomorrow
We are Batman’s Kitchen, the UW competitive computer security team, and we are looking for new members.
Interested in learning about computer security issues and/or being part of a competition team? We hold regular meetings, practice breaking/hacking stuff, learn about computer security topics (both technical and non-technical), and compete in CTF/hacker jeopardy competitions throughout the school year (and Summer too). You don’t need any prior experience in computer security to join the team — all you need is some interest in security and a willingness to learn. Our group is an interdisciplinary group of students from CSE, EE, iSchool, pre-engineering, and other engineering departments. We also collaborate with the UW Tacoma Gray Hats.
Our Info Meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday, October 2nd, CSE room 303, at 5:30pm. We welcome everyone. At the Info Meeting we’ll talk about the type of competitions we do; upcoming presentations from industry like iSEC, Facebook, Google;topics we will cover in the coming year; in addition to finding out about groups like Neg9.
Even if you can’t make it to the meeting, sign up for our mailing list at https://mailman.cs.washington.
See you Wednesday!
Melody Kadenko
Advisor of Batman’s Kitchen and Team Hillarious
Computer Science & Engineering
ACM Events & Volunteer Survey
As we are beginning the school year, ACM would love to hear your input on our events! We’d also love to hear if you are interested in volunteering at some events this year.
Nothing is set in stone; this is just to gauge interest and bring some new ideas to the table.
Fill out the survey here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/211514
If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or you’re having trouble accessing the Catalyst WebQ, please contact Jennifer Apacible at apacible[at]cs[dot]washington[dot]edu.
You must be an enrolled CSE major in Autumn 2013 to view this survey. The survey will close midnight Friday September 11th, 2013.
ACM Weekly Events Digest 9/30 – 10/4
Overview:
10/2: Hulu Office Hours
10/2: Google Office Hours
10/2: Google X Glass Talk and Google APM talk
10/3: Microsoft Office Hours
10/3: Employer Panel
10/4: Madrona Office Hours
Hulu Office Hours
10/2: 11:00am-12:30pm; CSE Atrium
Google Office Hours
10/2: 1:3-3:00pm; CSE Atrium
Google Talk: APM info session
10/2: 4:30-5:30pm; CSE 403
Come and learn about Google’s Associate Product Manager role from a UW Alumni who’s doing it! We’ll cover what it is, how to apply and interviewing tips!
Google Tech Talk: Exploring the Glass Platform
10/2: 6:30-8:00pm; EE125
By bringing technology closer, we can get it out of the way. This innovative idea will be taken as a foundation for exploring Glass and the Glass platform. We’ll cover the latest design principles for Glass software (called Glassware), continue with an overview of the Glass platform, and take an in-depth look at the Google Mirror API. Examples of current and future Glassware will be shown to demonstrate best practices and give a glimpse at the future of personal computing we are creating together. Plenty of time will be left for questions and conversation.
Microsoft Office Hours
10/3: 1:00-2:30pm; CSE Atrium
Employer Panel
10/3: 5:30-6:30pm; EE105
A panel of software company HR reps and recent CSE graduates will go over the steps CSE undergraduates need to take in the coming months to land the internship or job of their dreams.
Madrona Office Hours
10/4: 11:00am-12:30pm; CSE Atrium
Tomorrow: Google (X) Glass talk and Google APM talk
Both of these events are TOMORROW, Wednesday 10/2/2013
Please RSVP: http://goo.gl/s98FR8
Google Glass Talk – EE125, 6:30 p.m.:
Title: Exploring the Glass Platform
Abstract: By bringing technology closer, we can get it out of the way. This innovative idea will be taken as a foundation for exploring Glass and the Glass platform. We’ll cover the latest design principles for Glass software (called Glassware), continue with an overview of the Glass platform, and take an in-depth look at the Google Mirror API. Examples of current and future Glassware will be shown to demonstrate best practices and give a glimpse at the future of personal computing we are creating together. Plenty of time will be left for questions and conversation.
Speaker: Jenny Murphy
Jenny is a Staff Developer Programs Engineer on Google Glass. In this role she helps developers use Google APIs and technologies to build cool stuff for Glass. Before joining Google she worked in a wide variety of software engineering roles from robotics at NASA to the architect of a social media startup. She is passionate about writing and education, especially on the subjects of technology and science.
APM Talk – 4:30-5:30 p.m., CSE403:
Title: APM Info Session
Abstract: Come and learn about Google’s Associate Product Manager role from a UW Alumni who’s doing it!
We’ll cover what it is, how to apply and interviewing tips!
Speaker: Allyson Gale
Employer panel this Thursday
Please consider attending this, it’s one of our favorite events, the returning alumni give GREAT advice.
Employer Panel: Thursday Oct. 3, 2013; 5:30-6:30 pm; EEB105
Employer Panel: Thursday Oct. 3, 2013; 5:30-6:30 pm; EEB105
A panel of software company HR reps and recent CSE graduates will go over the steps CSE undergraduates need to take in the coming months to land the internship or job of their dreams.
Two upcoming talks – ugrads invited
Reminder about postings, you can sign up to receive notices of talks given in the department by going to: http://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/
You can also sign into your ugrad-news account profile and determine which categories you receive.
Here are a few talks coming up:
This Thursday – please join us if you can or watch remotely at
http://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloq_info/
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Computer Science and Engineering
*DISTINGUISHED LECTURE*
SPEAKER: David Patterson, UC Berkeley
TITLE: Myths about MOOCs, Ebooks, and Software Engineering Education
DATE: Thursday, September 26, 2013
TIME: 3:30pm
PLACE: EEB-105
HOST: Ed Lazowska
ABSTRACT:
This talk explains how the confluence of cloud computing and Massive Open
Online Courses (MOOCs) have allowed us greatly improve both the
effectiveness and the reach of UC Berkeley’s undergraduate software
engineering course.
The first part of the talk is motivated by Industry’s long-standing
complaint that academia ignores vital software topics, leaving students
unprepared upon graduation. Traditional approaches to software development
are neither supported by tools that students could readily use, nor
appropriate for projects whose scope matched a college course. Hence,
instructors traditionally lecture about software engineering topics, while
students continue to build software more or less the way they always had,
in practice relegating software engineering to little more than a project
course. This sad but stable state of affairs is frustrating to
instructors, boring to students, and disappointing to industry.
Happily, cloud computing and the shift in the software industry towards
software as a service has led to highly-productive tools and techniques
that are a much better match to the classroom than earlier software
development methods. That is, not only has the future of software been
revolutionized, it has changed in a way that makes it easier to teach.
UC Berkeley’s revised Software Engineering course leverages this
productivity to allow students to both enhance a legacy application and to
develop a new app that matches requirements of non-technical customers. By
experiencing the whole software life cycle repeatedly within a single
college course, students actually use the skills that industry has long
encouraged and learn to appreciate them. The course is now rewarding for
faculty, popular with students, and praised by industry.
The second part of the talk is about our experience using MOOCs to teach
Software Engineering. While the media’s spotlight on MOOCs continues
unabated, a recent opinion piece expresses grave concerns about their role
(“Will MOOCs Destroy Academia?”, Moshe Vardi, CACM 55(11), Nov. 2012). I
will try to bust a few MOOC myths by presenting provocative, if anecdotal,
evidence that appropriate use of MOOC technology can improve on-campus
pedagogy, increase student throughput while raising course quality, and
even reinvigorate faculty teaching. I’ll also explain the role of MOOCs in
enabling half-dozen universities to replicate and build upon our work via
Small Private Online Courses (SPOCs) from EdX and our electronic textbook.
I conclude that the 21st century textbook may prove to be a hybrid of
SPOCs and Ebooks.
Work in collaboration with Armando Fox, UC Berkeley.
Bio:
David Patterson joined UC Berkeley in 1977 after receiving all his degrees
from UCLA.
His most successful projects have likely been Reduced Instruction Set
Computers (RISC), Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), and
Network of Workstations (NOW). All three projects helped lead to
multibillion-dollar industries. This research led to many papers and six
books, with the most popular book being Computer Organization and Design
co-authored with John Hennessy and the most recent being Engineering
Software as a Service co-authored with Armando Fox. His current research
is centered on cancer genomics for the AMP and ASPIRE Labs.
In the past, he served as Director of the Parallel Computing Lab, Director
of the Reliable And Distributed Systems Lab, Chair of Berkeley’s CS
Division, Chair of the Computing Research Association (CRA), and President
of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
This work resulted in 35 honors, some shared with friends. His research
awards include election to the National Academy of Engineering, the
National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of
Fame along with being named Fellow of the Computer History Museum, ACM,
IEEE, and both AAAS organizations. He received Distinguished Service
Awards from ACM, CRA, and SIGARCH. His teaching honors include the ACM
Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the IEEE Mulligan Education Medal,
the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the UC Berkeley Distinguished
Teaching Award.
Refreshments to be served in room prior to talk.
*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.
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Hello,
Please join the eScience Institute Monday, September 30, 4:00 pm in EEB-303. Refreshments will be provided.
Orly Alter (Utah):
Orly Alter, Ph.D. is a USTAR Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Human Genetics at the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah. She was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2009, and a National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) R01 grant in 2007. She was selected to give the Linear Algebra and its Applications Lecture of the International Linear Algebra Society in 2005, and received an NHGRI Individual Mentored Research Scientist Development Award in Genomic Research and Analysis in 2000, and a Sloan Foundation/Department of Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology in 1999. Additional support for her work comes from the Utah Science, Technology and Research (USTAR) Initiative.
Discovery of Principles of Nature from Matrix and Tensor Modeling of Large-Scale Molecular Biological Data
In my Genomic Signal Processing Lab, we are breaking new ground in mathematics, at the interface of mathematics, biology and medicine, and in biology and medicine. In mathematics, we develop generalizations of the mathematical frameworks that underlie the theoretical description of the physical world [1]. At the interface, we use these frameworks to create models that compare and integrate different types of large-scale molecular biological data. In biology and medicine, we use the models to computationally predict previously unknown physical, cellular and evolutionary mechanisms that govern the activity of DNA and RNA. We believe that future discovery and control in biology and medicine will come from the mathematical modeling of large-scale molecular biological data, just as Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion by using mathematics to describe trends in astronomical data [2].
At the interface, our recent generalized singular value decomposition (GSVD) comparison of two patient-matched genomic datasets uncovered a global pattern of DNA aberrations that is correlated with, and possibly causally related to, brain cancer survival [3]. This new link between a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) tumor’s genome and a patient’s prognosis offers insights into the cancer’s formation and growth, and suggests promising drug targets. The best prognostic predictor of GBM prior to this discovery was the patient’s age at diagnosis. In mathematics, the higher-order GSVD we formulated is the only framework to date that enables comparison of more than two patient-matched but probe-independent datasets, and, in general, more than two datasets arranged in matrices of the same column dimensions but different row dimensions [4]. In biology, our experiments [5] verified our prediction [6] of a global causal coordination between DNA replication origin activity and mRNA expression, demonstrating that matrix and tensor modeling of DNA microarray data [7] can be used to correctly predict previously unknown biological modes of regulation. Ultimately we hope to bring physicians a step closer to one day being able to predict and control the progression of cell division and cancer as readily as NASA engineers plot the trajectories of spacecraft today.
Seattle Give Camp looking for people
Hello,
I am an organizer with the Seattle Give Camp. Seattle Give Camp is a weekend event where software developers, PMs, and designers come together to help charities. I was hoping that you could mention it during your meeting or post our flyer in your common area. Here is the website where you can sign up: http://www.seattlegivecamp.org.
Seattle Give Camp could be good for your members. It allows them to give back to the community and also gives them a chance to work with experienced professionals, network, and have something to put on their resume. Also there will be some classes on real world topics such as Salesforce, CMS, and SEO.
Food will be provided. Let me know if you have any questions.
Hope to see you there,
Mike Roshak MCDBA, MCAD, Ph.d (ABD)
Skype:Microshak
micros@microshak.com | twitter | linkedin
Code it forward
:Join me and give back at GiveCamp
Change Seminar Invitation
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Hello Everyone,
I would like to invite you all to register for the one credit Change Seminar (CSE 590 C1, SLN: 12753) which will be meeting on Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 203 of the Paul Allen Center.
Change (http://change.washington.edu) is a group of faculty, students, and staff at the UW who are exploring the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in improving the lives of underserved populations, particularly in the developing world. We cover topics such as global health, education, micro finance, agricultural development, and general communication, and look at how technology can be used to improve each of these areas.
We are in the process of scheduling speakers, so stay tuned to our calendar (http://is.gd/3PkTF) or mailing list (http://is.gd/3PlkS) for more information (and if you know anyone in the community who we should invite please let me know).
Please consider enrolling. If you are unable to enroll, feel free to come to any of the meetings you are interested in attending! The seminar is available for all UW students and the content is designed to be widely accessible. We encourage students from all departments to enroll/attend if interested.
Please forward this message to any other relevant mailing lists, and we hope to see you on Tuesday October 1st at noon in Room 203 of the Paul Allen Center.
Thanks,
– Trevor
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