Amazon’s Women in Engineering group is hosting the first annual AWEsome Evening Celebrating Women in Engineering! Please join us to learn how women are impacting Amazon and technology.

At the event, you will experience:

• Amazon product and service showcases
• A talk by Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College
• A meet and greet with technical women at Amazon

Date: Monday, April 1, 2013
Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Amazon SLU Campus, Arizona Auditorium; 207 Boren Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
RSVP: http://awesomeevening.eventbrite.com/

Just a reminder that STAT 391 has been re-vamped a bit to match our new curriculum better. You would ideally have CSE 312 completed before taking 391.  Additionally, note that Stat 391 can be applied to a math minor, but you have to email the math advisors to have the exception put into the UW system. There are still a couple of spaces left in stat and it also counts as a CSE core course and CSE Senior elective.

Hello,

Come join Solid State Disc!

Who are we?
The CSE co-ed Spring Ultimate Frisbee team, part of the UW IMA League.

Who can join?
Any undergraduate student from the CSE department, including you!

Why should I join?
Get in shape, gain disc skills, learn how to play Ultimate, and connect with others in the department!

When does the team meet?
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, 5pm – 7pm. Strict attendance is not required, but regulars will be preferred for roster spots.

Where does the team meet?
IMA fields, to be announced each day.

How do I join? Who do I contact with questions?
Please contact Preston Sahabu at sahabp[at]uw[dot]edu or via Facebook.

Dear colleagues:

I’m writing to provide information about the GO! and Fritz Scholarships for study abroad.  Please share this information with students and colleagues!  If your program has a Facebook page, please also like us at http://www.facebook.com/UWGlobalOpportunities.

The GO! and Fritz Scholarships are open to UW undergraduates from all three campuses and offer awards of $2000 – $5000 to support study abroad. 

• The applications are online at goglobal.uw.edu.
• To apply for the GO!, students must be residents of WA state and eligible for Pell Grants or Husky Promise.
• To apply for the Fritz, students must be declared social science or humanities majors with at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA.

The deadline for applications for the GO! and Fritz is April 25^th at 5pm.

• Students studying abroad during summer, early fall, or fall 2013 should apply now.
• Students studying abroad in winter or spring 2014 should apply at our next deadline in November.

We’re offering information sessions, drop-in advising, and individual appointments to answer student questions and provide application feedback.

• Info sessions are Friday, 3/29 from 12:30 – 1:30pm and Tuesday, April 16^th from 3:30 – 4:30pm in MGH171.
• Drop-in hours are Mondays 10am – 12pm and Thursdays 3:30 – 5pm in MGH171.
• Students are welcome to email goglobal@uw.edu to ask questions or set up an advising appointment.

We invite all students interested in study abroad (and advisers too!) to our next Study Abroad Meet & Greet on Tuesday, 4/16 from 4:30 – 5:30pm in MGH171.

• GO! and Fritz Scholars just back from their studies abroad will be there to talk about their experiences and answer questions.
• Delicious international snacks will be served!

Thanks for reading and for passing on this information.  Attached are flyers for the GO! and Fritz Scholarships and the Study Abroad Meet & Greet.  Please email me if you or your students have questions about these opportunities.

Have a great day!

Sara Stubbs, MSW
Global Opportunities Adviser
Center for Experiential Learning & Diversity

Mary Gates Hall 180E – Box 352803, Seattle, WA 98195
206.543.4170
sem42@uw.edu    www.goglobal.uw.edu

Dear Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduates,

1- CSE 455-457, Open CV Computer Vision (*Very important)
2- CSE 333/374 or HIGHLY experienced in C++

Thanks

Richard Ladner	9:42 AM (5 hours ago)
to cs-grads, cs-ugrads

Dear Potential Saturday Computing Volunteers,

The Saturday Computing Experience is an 8 week workshop for deaf and
hard of hearing high school students.  It starts on April 6th and ends
on June 1st, skipping the Memorial Day weekend.  It runs from 9:30 to
noon except on the final day when students showcase their projects to
their family and friends.  There is an orientation the evening of
April 3rd, Wednesday, from 6 to 7:30.

http://adhhc.cs.washington.edu/SCE.php

This year we will be doing Processing, modeled after the DawgBytes
camps that were done here last summer. We may be able to link up
Processing with Android phones too.

http://processing.org/

We are looking for a few volunteers to help with one-on-one mentoring
with the students.  It is not necessary to know sign language,
although it would be helpful.  We will have interpreters in the room
to assist with communication. To volunteer please sign up at the
following catalyst site.

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/ladner/194638

If you are interested please sign up by the end of the day, Tuesday, March 19th.

Thanks,

Richard Ladner
Professor in CSE
____________________

Hello!

We would like to invite you and your students to our next webinar highlighting Machine Learning, Natural Language Process, and Artificial Intelligence. This webinar will feature a presentation by two Microsoft employees solving the complex problems in search. Learn about what recent college hires are working on, as well as how Microsoft is approaching the world of search on a daily basis. By tuning in live, you will have the opportunity to ask questions and interact with our presenters in real-time.

Upcoming Webinar – “Be Smarter Than Your Computer: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing & Artificial Intelligence”

Wednesday, March 13^th @ 12:00 PM (PST)

Register to attend at http://bit.ly/URwebinarAI1

Thursday, March 21^st @ 6:00 PM (PST)

Register to attend at http://bit.ly/URwebinarAI2

Do I need to call in to get audio?  Yes, because of the high volume of callers and varying internet connections we have found it is more reliable to call in for audio.  Toll Number: 213-416-1560

Access Code: 240-746-226.  International call in recommendations are listed in the attached flyer.

Are you calling in internationally? If so, we recommend VOIP so you can access the audio. If you’re using a landline, cell phone, Skype, Nonoh, or a similar program, please make sure to dial 00-1 before dialing the number above. If you continue to have problems signing in, please note that we will be posting these webinars online here!

Please RSVP to nikki+HCIFair@nicoleblee.com

You’re Invited to the HCI Project Fair!

CSE 440 Student Presentations Thursday, March 21st 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Each year, students in UW CSE’s introductory Human-Computer Interaction course (CSE 440) organize into teams and spend a quarter iteratively designing, prototyping, and evaluating a user interface.

Come join us on Thursday, March 21st, from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM to see what the nine student teams created this quarter (feel free to come at 11:45 AM for the poster session). Lunch is on us. It is a great chance to meet top graduating students in computer science, design, informatics, HCDE, architecture, & digital arts who have an interest in user interfaces. This select group of students includes the designers, programmers, and evaluation specialists of the future.

The students had an especially challenging design charge this quarter. They were asked to create a mobile computing application that addressed one of the following design briefs: change (transform your or your family’s behavior), crowd sourced mobile AI (e.g., use Mechanical Turk to give perfect vision, speech reco, etc.), creativity (help people be more creative in their everyday lives). The resulting projects have interesting mobile interfaces and usage models.

The HCI Project Fair will take place on the UW campus, Mary Gates Hall room 241. Details on the project fair activities, this quarter’s projects, and how to get there follow.

Activities

We will start the morning by my giving a 20 minute overview of what was taught in the HCI course this quarter and how the student projects were structured. Next, the top three teams (as voted by the students) will give 15 minute presentations showing you the design and evolution of their interfaces.

Following the end of the formal presentations at 11:45, we will have food, drinks, and a demo/poster session to give you a chance to meet the students and see their projects up close.

This is your opportunity to find out more about the current state of the art of human-computer interaction education, to learn its role in a university curriculum, and to see some novel ideas presented by some of the top graduating seniors in the country.

Projects

The nine innovative group projects look at applications and services on mobile platforms.

RSVP & Directions:

The HCI Project Fair will take place on the UW campus, Mary Gates hall room 241.

Please RSVP to Nikki Lee (nikki+HCIFair@nicoleblee.com) .

—

James A. Landay 
Short-Dooley Professor

Co-Director, The World Lab

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
642 Allen Center, Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350
landay@cs.washington.edu
http://cs.washington.edu/homes/landay/