Interested in technology?
Want to learn about being LGBT and out in Silicon Valley?

Apply for the Out for Undergraduate Tech Conference hosted this February 2nd and 3rd at Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Last year we had over 100+ students attend from across the country and 16+ sponsor companies including Facebook, Box, Yahoo!, Groupon, Adobe, and more.

Early deadline for discounted registration fee and to reserve your spot early is this Friday, November 30th, regular deadline is December 30th.

More information: http://www.outfortech.com
Questions? info@outfortech.com

**This research colloquium is also open to the public, so anyone can attend all or part of the seminars even if they are not registered.**

Winter Quarter 2013 Seminar Series

MEBI 591A: Technologies to Support Aging: Implications for Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Tuesdays 11:00 – 11:50 a.m.

Health Sciences I-132

The population of older adults is growing rapidly and expected to double in size from 2000 to 2030. As our health care system struggles with limited resources and a workforce shortage, there is a need for innovative approaches that will address this unprecedented demographic shift and improve quality of life for older adults. Technology can facilitate the design of such solutions that promote independent and healthy aging. Examples include among others fall detection systems, wearable sensors to capture vital signs or activity levels, telehealth devices for disease management, “smart” homes for independent elders. Technology-based solutions to support aging require interdisciplinary approaches that address not only the technical but also the clinical, ethical, legal and societal implications. This seminar series draws on the expertise of speakers from many disciplines (including health informatics, medicine, nursing, social work, computer science and engineering) to showcase examples of current or proposed systems and examine lessons learned and challenges.

Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, UW School of Medicine. For questions or more information contact gdemiris@uw.edu

Hear ye, hear ye!

ACM is proud to present our annual Fallfest this Friday, November 30th. Come join us for food, drinks*, and games! All CSE faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students are welcome!

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

Want to help set up? Contact the ACM officers at acm-officers[at]cs…

*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! 

Hey folks,

I know we had told a few of you that there might be a winter application for the BS/MS  (5th year masters) program.  Unfortunately, we will not be having an additional application cycle this winter. With only 20 new slots for the program every year, it was decided that we would keep a single application cycle.  We generally open the application in late May and make decisions by mid-June.  The possibility of a winter application was always tentative, but since the decision is now final, we wanted to alert you in case this alters any plans.

We do understand that a once a year application doesn’t work well for all students, and we are sympathetic to your various situations.  If you have questions about how this might effect you, please don’t hesitate to contact the CSE advising staff.  Elise and Crystal are the most familiar with the 5th year program, so try to see one of them.

We will have a BS/MS program information session this winter quarter.

CSE Advising

Speaker Bios:

1. Krista Davis — Krista graduated UW CSE department and later dropped out of grad school  to work for Google. She’s worked on Google Talk and Docs and contributes her 20% time to work on Google’s local philanthropy tools. She represented Google on Seattle’s Out & Equal council and spends way too much time (re)watching Star Trek and Buffy.
2. Marsha Botzer — Marsha has served the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and progressive communities for over 30 years, as a founding member of Equality Washington, the Seattle LGBT Center, and on boards of Pride Foundation, Safe Schools, Lambert House, Seattle Counseling Service and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
3. While we await confirmation from the third speaker, we can tentatively say that he is an executive from a leading multi-national technology firm. Of his many accomplishments, he currently represents the STEM community as a global LGBT lead promoting equality in the workplace.

If you have any questions that you would like to ask the speakers, feel free to ask any questions in the Catalyst RSVP, or email them to me at this address (johngvh@uw.edu). Some example questions could be something like the following:

• “Have you found STEM companies generally accepting of people who identify as LGBTQ?”
• “A lot of my community involvement efforts have been with the LGBTQ community. Is it alright to put this on my resume?”
• “Did you wait to come out at work? If so, when did you choose to come out, and why?”
• “What is your general experience of being out at work?”
• “What are some resources I can use to find out how LGBTQ-friendly a company is?”

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Overview:
11/28: Microsoft Office Hours
11/30: Fallfest

Microsoft Office Hours
11/28; 1:00 – 3:00pm; Atrium

Fallfest
11/30; 5:30 – 8:30pm; Atrium
Come join us for our annual Fallfest, sponsored by Facebook and Google! Have fun with other students with food, drinks, and games. Must be 21+ and have ID for alcoholic beverages. See you there!

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• Prototype funding Applicationdeadline is December 16 https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/uwcie/185034

• Resource Nights, Winter Quarter, every Thurs, 6-7:30. Suggested for EIC teams-n/nc or audit.  Open to students from other schools – drop in, no rsvp required.
• Networking Nightat Resource Nights, Thurs Jan 17 – excellent place to find a team and/or teammates.  Open to all!
• February 3, Intent to Submit – online preliminary team information.
• February 26, Official Team Entry. 5 to 7-page Business Summary. Describe the problem, the solution, the team, market opportunity, and prototype or computer simulation. Feedback to each team will be provided by a panel of judges to each team.
• March 13, Pitch Workshop 6-7:30 Mandatory for all EIC teams within the Seattle area. At least 1 member from each team needs to attend.  More are recommended.
• March 31, 1-page Business Summary: describe the problem, solution, team, market opportunity, and potential for impact and describe the prototype, computer simulation or proof of concept.
• April 4, Thursday Challenge Day! Team set-up in the morning, judging begins at noon and is followed immediately by the reception and awards ceremony from 5-7:00.

Since we find there generally are not a lot of students around on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we are cancelling afternoon dropins on Wednesday this week.   Regular dropins (Monday-Thursday 2-3pm and Tues-Friday 10-11am) will resume on Monday.

Happy Thanksgiving,

CSE Advising