CSE Undergrad News

From: Hank Levy <levy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] building hours over break

Dear Students,

As the quarter comes to a close and many of you leave campus for break, we wanted to let you know that there are special holiday hours for the Allen Center during that time.
Dec. 19-Jan 6th
Weekdays: building open 8am – 4pm

Weekends and holidays: no access, building will be closed to students

This means you will not have cardkey access to the building on weekends, holidays, and from 4pm – 8am on weekdays.

Normal building access will resume for everyone on Monday, January 7th, which is the first day of winter quarter this year.

Have a great holiday!

Hank

CSE Chair

Facebook invites you to join them for a fun poker night! Come meet professionals from different companies around the area and win some prizes. Food and swag will be provided.

Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Time: 6:30pm – 10:00pm
Location:  Facebook Seattle; 1730 Minor Ave Seattle, WA 98101

Please RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4689184477

Hi all,

We want to give you a heads-up that we are hosting a open house for middle and high school students this Saturday afternoon from 1pm-3pm (details below). We will be using the Atrium, breakout areas on each floor landing, and other labs and conference rooms in the building for this event, including 002. If you see any of our visitors looking lost, it would be great if you offered them your help in figuring out where to go.

Please be prepared for lots of noise and activity throughout the building during this time. Popular study areas will be in use, and you may want to consider this if you planned to be here. It could get hectic.  All should be quiet again after 3pm.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Megan

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Quick reminder that we are hosting a computing-focused open house for middle and high school kids this Saturday 1-3pm (https://www.cs.washington.edu/openhouse).

Speaker: On Lee, CTO of GDP Venture, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Company: GDP Venture is a strategic Internet investor focused on the Indonesian market. We invest in early and growth stage companies in the consumer-to-consumer and mobile industries. Some of our portfolio companies: Kaskus.co.id – The Largest Indonesian Community; Blibli.com – Ecommerce; Merah Putih Inc – Indonesia’s first tech and digital incubator.

Description: On Lee will talk about the Internet industry in Indonesia. He has just recently returned to Indonesia in 2011 due to personal reasons after living and working in the US for almost 30 years. He will share his experience working with people, processes and products after more than a year in Indonesia as the CTO of GDP Venture and a Mentor of The Founder Institute Jakarta.

Supported by:

Indo Cafe (http://www.myindocafe.com/)

T-Station (http://www.tstationseattle.com/)

Spend the summer researching smart environments with faculty at WSU!

$4,500 stipend, plus:
Free on-campus housing
Access to university resources
Travel support to WSU
Unique research experience

The Program
This REU program is sponsored by the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University. WSU is located in Pullman, Washington, a small town in the Palouse region of Eastern Washington. The program consists of 9 weeks working with top research professors and graduate students at WSU. During this time, REU participants will assist in designing smart environments. In particular, participants will perform hands-on research on topics including design of sensor networks, middleware, machine learning algorithms, and automation algorithms, and will investigate applications of smart environments to health monitoring and energy conservation. Most research ideas will be tested using two on-campus smart environments, and students will present their research results in a poster session at the end of the nine week period.

Travel support is available for students who submit their work to a research-related conference.

Application Process
Target application date for 2013: March 4, 2013
Apply online: http://reu.eecs.wsu.edu/

Additional Information Contact Nirmalya Roy (nroy@eecs.wsu.edu) or visit our REU web page at http://reu.eecs.wsu.edu

Instructor: Todorov

CSE 490P

MW: 12pm – 1:20 pm MGH 248

SLN: 20775

Prereq: still TBD, likely 332 and possibly 333

This class will be based on the ongoing DARPA Robotics Challenge (see http://theroboticschallenge.org/), which aims to develop robots that can operate semi-autonomously in disaster areas. We will work with a physically-realistic simulation of the most advanced humanoid robot ever made (by Boston Dynamics), and try to make it get in and out of cars, walk across challenging terrain, and connect hoses. Possible projects include perception (based on stereo cameras, LIDAR and IMU) as well as feedback control of the joints in real time. The instructor is leading UW’s team of postdocs and graduate students participating in the actual DARPA competition. Students in the class will have an opportunity to contribute to this effort and compete with the best roboticists from around the world.

TEDxWomen is coming to the University of Washington — and you are invited! 

UW Women in Informatics, Microsoft Women of Research, and Women In Bio Seattle Metro have joined forces to bring the passion, spirit and energy that is TEDxWomen to the University of Washington.  Join us on December 1, 2012, from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm, for rich and stimulating conversation and exchange of ideas at this one-day global event.

We are gathering together a group of 185 accomplished, curious, TED-type thinkers and doers to meet, engage and celebrate at our 2012 TEDxWomen event, TEDxSouthLakeUnionWomen.  This year’s theme for TEDxWomen is “The Space Between”, and we will consider the space between what we see and what is true, and the space between our intellectual and emotional intelligence, and more.

Cynthia Adkins, life sciences and technology attorney, and President, Seattle Metro chapter of Women In Bio, Rane Johnson the Education and Scholarly Communication Principal Director at Microsoft Research Connections, and myself are extending this personal invitation to you: students and faculty of the UW with a focus in engineering and technology. Take part in this challenging, inspiring and timely conversation, where you can cross-fertilize, draw inspiration, and share your personal and professional insights and experiences.  It will give you an opportunity to meet women changing the world in Puget Sound and have the opportunity to be part of activities to grow more women in Science Technology Engineering and Math careers in the region.

At our event, we will watch via livestream TEDxWomen speakers from Washington DC, and we will also feature local speakers, including Katie Davis, Assistant Professor at The University of Washington Information School, and Munmun De Choudhury, Microsoft Researcher.

Half of the seats are reserved for UW registrants meaning the other half will be filled by professionals from Microsoft Research and Women in Bio so there will be plenty of networking opportunities. This is a free event and we’ll even be providing breakfast and lunch! If you would like to attend, please either RSVP to me via reply email and I will have you registered, or sign-up at tedxwinfo.eventbrite.com . (password to see the event page is “WINFO”). We will also be providing a private screening of Ms. Newsom’s film, “Miss Representation”, immediately following the regular TEDxWomen sessions.  It’s a 90-minute documentary about the portrayal of women and girls in the media, and it’s a very powerful, important (and disturbing) film.  http://www.missrepresentation.org/  more details to come prior to the event.  If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

Thank you. Hope to see you very soon!

Details:

The 2012 TEDxSouthLakeUnionWomen Event

Saturday, December 1, 2012

10:00 am to 3:30 pm

Alder Hall Auditorium & Commons

Just a reminder that Fallfest is tonight! Be sure to join us for food, drinks*, and games. Come relax and have some fun before the end of the quarter.

When: November 30th; 5:30 – 8:30pm
Where: Atrium
Cost: Free for ACM chapter members*; $5 for non-members.

*Must be 21+ and have ID to consume alcohol. Non-alcoholic beverages also provided. 🙂
**Not an ACM member but want to join? No problem! Bring $8 to sign up for free admission to future events! 

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