CSE Undergrad News

You are invited to the:

CSE481K Designing Technology for Low-Resource Settings (the ICTD Capstone)

POSTER AND DEMO

SESSION

Monday, June 10, noon-1:30 in the CSE Atrium

Each winter and spring, students from CSE and HCDE collaborate on a set of projects to design and prototype technology solutions to particular problems motivated by issues encountered in low-resource settings.  Each of the teams has an external customer that connects them to real users for ideation and evaluation.  Winter quarter is spent exploring and developing project plans while Spring quarter is focused on developing a working prototyping and conducting preliminary evaluations and/or getting user feedback.

Come join us on Monday, June 10th, from noon – 1:30 in the CSE Atrium to get a hands-on demo and discuss the projects with the students around their posters.

There will be six projects showcased:

The ACM officers will be using the refrigerators and freezer in the ACM lounge in preparation for Spring BBQ until late Friday evening.

If you have anything there you still want, please find them a new home before 3:00pm tomorrow, June 6. You’re welcome to use the small fridge located in the lounge. Everything else will be thrown away.

Thanks!

—– Forwarded message ———-
From: John Zahorjan <zahorjan@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:53 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] The Bring-Your-Own-Laptop Games Capstone Colloquium
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu, cs-grads@cs.washington.edu, cs-staff – Mailing List <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, researchers@cs.washington.edu

The students in this year’s games capstone course have produced six
dynamite games.  This Thursday, at 3:30 in EE 105, you’ll have a
chance to play those games.  We’ll begin with brief presentations by
the game designers to explain their games and convince you to play
them.  We’ll end by announcing an audience choice winner.  In
between, we’ll game.  When’s the last time a game designer personally
helped you play well?  Exactly.  Here’s a unique chance.

Bring your laptop.  (We thought about building for phones, but the
consensus opinion was that there are no arrow keys on phones so no one
would ever want to play games on them.)  Come play your favorite
team’s game on to victory!

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You can always find out about upcoming talks open to all, by going to this webpage: https://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/

here is one that we thought ugrads might be particularly interested in.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Computer Science & Engineering
TECH TALK

SPEAKER:   Jeff Currier, Twitter

TITLE:     Manageability Systems @Twitter: towards efficiency and
reliability

DATE:      Thursday, June 6, 2013
TIME:      4:30pm
PLACE:     CSE 403

ABSTRACT:
This talk will focus on the manageability systems that Twitter is building
to increase the overall reliability and efficiency of our services.
Further, practical applications of the techniques captured in this
substrate benefit the services that allow Twitter to operate at a massive
scale.

Speaker Bio:
Jeff Currier is a Engineering Manager in Twitter’s Seattle Engineering
office. He’s leading a team who is focused on building technologies that
enable service self healing, automatic load balancing of data systems and
making running services at scale more economical.

Overview:
6/7: Spring BBQ

Spring BBQ
6/7; 4:00pm – 7:30pm; Sylvian Grove

Come relax before finals and join us in our Annual CSE Spring BBQ this Friday, June 7! This is an annual department wide celebration for the end of another great academic year. CSE undergrads, grads, faculty, and staff are invited.

We’ll be serving hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, other snacks, and lots of drinks*! We’ll also have inflatables and an opportunity to pie your favorite professors. If you ordered an ACM t-shirt, you can pick it up here as well!

We’ll be setting up from 2:00 – 4:00pm. Want to help? Contact the ACM officers at acm-officers[at]cs…

*Must be 21+ and have ID to consume alcohol. Non-alcoholic beverages also provided. 🙂

Come relax before finals and join us in our Annual CSE Spring BBQ this Friday, June 7! This is an annual department wide celebration for the end of another great academic year. CSE undergrads, grads, faculty, and staff are invited.

We’ll be serving hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, other snacks, and lots of drinks*! We’ll also have inflatables and an opportunity to pie your favorite professors. If you ordered an ACM t-shirt, you can pick it up here as well!

When: June 7, 2013; 4:00pm – 7:30pm
Where: Sylvian Grove

We’ll be setting up from 2:00 – 4:00pm. Want to help? Contact the ACM officers at acm-officers[at]cs…

*Must be 21+ and have ID to consume alcohol. Non-alcoholic beverages also provided. 🙂

TJP Info

Check out the link above for information on the Technical Japanese program here at UW.

TJP offers an inter-Engineering Masters, Technical Japanese minor, and Certificates.

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Check out the link above for more details on the following:

> Subject: Programming Contest for Undergrads – Cash Prizes
> Date: May 28, 2013 10:13:32 AM PDT
> To: Luis Ceze
>
> Luis,
>
> Attached is a flyer for our annual programming contest. This uses C/C++ bare metal programing of a multi-core simulator for packet traffic optimization. It is designed to be a ~20-hour summer project – entries are due in October.
>
> Would you please post this outside your office and forward to student associations on campus?
>
> Thank you for your consideration.
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>

We need YOU to help inspire the next generation of computer scientists!

Join the fall K-12 Computing Education seminar to:
– share your excitement about CS with kids
– learn about tools and strategies for teaching CS to anyone
– learn about existing CS outreach and education projects at companies
and schools across the nation
– learn how to advocate for CS education and start your own outreach initiatives

We will meet on Tuesdays from 12:30 – 2pm to discuss weekly readings.
We will also complete projects in small teams and volunteer with K-12
kids.

Previous quarters’ projects included designing and implementing an
Arduino workshop for high school girls and starting a programming club
at a local high school.  For sample readings, see this quarter’s
course page at http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse490o/13sp/

There are two credit options:
– >= 2-credit Pipeline seminar (based on number of weekly volunteer
hours – see http://expd.washington.edu/pipeline/inner/frequently-asked-questions-about-inner-pipeline-seminars.html)
– 1-credit CSE seminar (minimum of 2 hours of volunteer work during the quarter)

Register for the CSE seminar with SLN 12730.
(https://sdb.admin.washington.edu/timeschd/uwnetid/sln.asp?QTRYR=AUT+2013&SLN=12730)

Registration for the Pipeline seminar is by add code only.  Please
e-mail me if you’d like to register.

I hope to see you in fall!

Hélène.

Want a CSE shirt or hoodie? Choose from four designs and an array of colors! They will be available for purchase until 11:59PM today, Wednesday, May 29, 2013.