CSE Undergrad News

costume contest + lunch

10/31 12:25 p.m., Atrium

Dress up, get lunch and Google swag

3 winning costumes EACH get a galaxy Nexus

Categories for costume judging:

most creative
nerdiest
best home made

“Engineering Networking Night” is a chance for current students in the
College of Engineering to talk to alums in their field.  This year
it’s being held in the Allen Center Atrium from 7-9 on Wednesday
November 7 – super convenient for CSE students to participate.  There
will be 6 CSE alums visiting, along with alums from all other
programs:

David N. Sunderland, 2004, works at Amazon

Greg Hitchcock, 1986, works at Microsoft

Doug Ferry, 1991, works at Microsoft

Russell Paul-Jones, 1987, works at Microsoft

Edward Balassanian, 1989, works at BeComm

Don Le, 2005, recently left Amazon to found Tenacity Sports

We know all of these folks – they’re good people.  This is *not* a
recruiting event – it’s a networking and information sharing event.
Please climb out of the basement from 7-9 on November 7 to
participate!

Interested in how brains work?

Get your PhD in Computational Neuroscience

at Boston University

You may be surprised to find out that a bachelor’s degree in computer science provides you with an excellent background for graduate studies in the exciting research field of computational neuroscience.

At Boston University, computational neuroscientists:

• Build brain-computer interfaces that allow paralyzed people to control computers or robotic devices
• Develop neuromorphic technologies that mimic how the brain solves complex problems such as vision, navigation, and movement control
• Create neural network models of brain circuits underlying perception, action, and cognition
• Use sophisticated mathematical analyses of brain rhythms to study human cognition and neurological disorders

These are just a few of the research opportunities available to Computational Neuroscience graduate students in the Boston University Graduate Program for Neuroscience. For more information, visit us at:

http://www.bu.edu/neuro/graduate/computational-neuroscience/

Overview:
10/29: Mock Technical Interviews
10/30: Amazon Tech Talk
10/31: Google UW Halloween 2.0
10/31: Microsoft Office Hours
11/1: Amazon Office Hours
11/1: Facebook Tech Talk

Mock Technical Interviews
10/29; 6:00pm – 8:15pm; Atrium
All CSE majors who will be looking for a full-time job this year should consider participating in our CSE Mock Technical Interviews. At this event representatives from local high-tech companies will run CSE students through a single half-hour simulated technical interview. The sessions will place students one-on-one with a hiring manager or engineer who regularly conducts technical interviews. Interview questions will include puzzles, logic, data structures, coding and more with a ten minute feedback session following.

Amazon Tech Talk
10/30; 6:00pm – 7:00pm; EEB 125
Morgan Akers, Software Development Manager will discuss “How to build a scalable, extensible configuration store for distributed systems.”

Bring your friends and come grab a free Amazon t-shirt and food!

Google UW Halloween 2.0
10/31; 12:25pm – 1:25pm; Atrium
Dress up, get lunch and Google swag -> 😉
3 winning costumes each get a Galaxy Nexus -> 😀

[Categories for Costumes Judging]
Most Creative
Nerdiest
Best Home Made

Microsoft Office Hours
10/31; 1:00pm – 3:00pm; Atrium

Amazon Office Hours
11/1; 12:00pm – 1:30pm; Atrium

Facebook Tech Talk
11/1; 6:15pm – 7:15pm; EEB 125
Interested in seeing what it takes to build social features into a mobile application? Facebook recently published an extensive open source codebase to make Facebook integration for iOS as simple to build and robust as possible. This is a hands-on discussion (yes, there will be code!) that will leave you with a sense of the opportunity around social and mobile, as viewed through the lens of building Facebook applications for iPhone and iPad devices. Jason Clark (speaker) is one of the engineers responsible for Facebook’s mobile developer platform; watch him build a social iOS application from scratch – syntax errors and all. Then go add social features to all your apps! Dinner and Facebook giveaways will be provided to attendees.

Please RSVP to this event page to reserve your spot: www.facebook.com/uwfalltechtalk – all of the logistical/location details are included in this link so make sure to read it carefully!

From Ed Lazowska:

Sportsfans,

I’d like to strongly encourage your attendance at Brad Smith’s CSE
Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday, and also at Susan Athey’s CSE
Distinguished Lecture in two weeks.

These are both a bit “out of our normal technical rut.” However, Brad
and Susan are two of the smartest people and best speakers I have ever
met.

Please take a look at the talk descriptions, and put these on your calendar!

Brad Smith: 3:30 on Tuesday 10/30
http://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/details?id=1245

Susan Athey: 3:30 on Tuesday 11/13
http://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/details?id=1233

Just a reminder that our start-up company career fair is about to get underway in the Atrium:

Startup Recruiting Fair
Tuesday, October 23rd
3:30pm – 6:00pm
CSE Atrium

Bring your resume! Come talk to companies!

A list of recruiting companies may be viewed here:http://www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2012/recruiting_co/startups/

For those of you looking for full-time jobs and internships, this is a great opportunity to explore your options with fantastic smaller companies. Stop by to visit with them!

Please read the announcement below for the 2013 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing conference, which will be held in Washington, D.C. from February 7th-10th. We hope to organize a small number of ugrads and grads to attend the conference. If you are interested, please email me and plan to apply for a scholarship by the November 25th deadline.

Thanks!

– Megan

The 2013 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in

Computing Conference has issued a call for participation, inviting
submissions for panel discussions, student research posters,
birds-of-a-feather sessions and workshops. Additionally, applications
are now being accepted for the Doctoral Consortium and student
scholarships to attend the conference. Tapia 2013 will be held Feb.
7-10, 2013 in Washington, D.C.

The 2013 conference is the seventh in the series and brings together
diverse leading researchers to present state-of-the art topics in the
field of computing. The Tapia conference has a tradition of providing
a supportive networking environment for under-represented groups
across the broad range of computing and information technology, from
science to business to the arts to infrastructure. Tapia 2013 is
organized by the Coalition to Diversify Computing and co-sponsored by
the Association for Computing Machinery and in cooperation with the
IEEE Computer Society and the Computing Research Association.

Confirmed speakers include Vint Cerf (Google VP and ACM President),
Armando Fox (UC Berkeley), Anita Jones (University of Virginia),
Jeanine Cook (New Mexico State University), Annie Anton (Georgia
Tech), and Hakim Weatherspoon, (Cornell University), among others. For
more information, visit the Tapia 2013
website<http://tapiaconference.org/2013/>.

The Tapia conference is organized by the Coalition to Diversify
Computing, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, and
in cooperation with the IEEE-Computer Society and the Computing
Research Association.

From Tammy Denning:

I am happy to announce that Cory will be stopping to chat with us on
his way through town on book tour. You may know him for his novels
(including Little Brother, nominated for the 2008 Hugo, Nebula,
Sunburst and Locus Awards), his blogging (boingboing.net), or his
appearances as a character on xkcd (http://xkcd.com/239/).

If these words get you excited, think about coming by!
Privacy, Censorship, Surveillance, Anonymity, Digital Re-Mixing and
Creativity, Makers, Technology and Society

WHEN:
Tuesday, October 23rd
2:30PM
EEB 403

BIO:
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger
and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog
Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to The Guardian, the
New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wired, and many other newspapers,
magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs
for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil
liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy,
standards and treaties. He holds an honorary doctorate in computer
science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Senior
Lecturer; in 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg
Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

Interested in applying to Teach For America?

Apply at the next deadline on Friday, November 2 (less than three weeks away, mark your calendars!). Only a one page resume and a 500 word letter of intent are required to apply, recommendations and transcripts are only submitted at a final interview. Click here to register and view the application.

Want to prepare the most competitive application possible?

Attend our Resume Workshop where a member of the Teach For America Selection Team will outline exactly what the organization is looking for and strategies to improve your resume. <Tuesday, October 30, 6:00PM, location TBD – see our facebook>

Heard about Teach For America and other post-graduate opportunities but not sure which is the best fit for you?

Learn more at a Joint Info Session featuring Teach For America, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and City Year. Each organization will have a representative that served in the program to share their experiences. <Wednesday, October 24, 4:00PM, THO 134>

The Basics of Teach For America:

• ·Corps members are full-time teachers
• ·Training, support and career development opportunities including a master’s degree pathway
• ·Option to preference regional placement (46 regions across 35 states) and teaching assignment (preK-12, all content areas)
• ·Full salary ranging from $25,500 to $51,000 plus benefits
• ·Student loan assistance (access to AmeriCorps education grant and federal loan deferral)
• ·All majors and career interests encouraged to apply, regardless of teaching experience

Contact Information:

• · Website: teachforamerica.org
• · Facebook: facebook.com/TFAatUW
• · Email: katherine.kleitsch@teachforamerica.org

Overview:
10/22: Google Office Hours
10/22: “Startups…Seattle…You?”
10/23: Tech Talk: Working in a Startup Environment
10/23: Startup Recruiting Fair
10/25: Industry Affiliates Recruiting Fair
10/25: Intel Talk: College Grad Careers at Intel

Google Office Hours
10/22; 12:00pm – 3:00pm; Atrium

Startups…Seattle…You?
10/22; 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EEB 125
Ever consider working for startup? Find out what it’s like. Come for the food and drink. Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. Hear first hand from successful leaders of the startup world. Questions? Contact yamamoto@cs.washington.edu

Tech Talk: Working in a Startup Environment
10/23; 2:30pm – 3:30pm; Commons

Startup Recruiting Fair
10/23; 3:30pm – 6:00pm; Atrium
Bring your resume! Come talk to companies! A list of recruiting companies may be viewed here: http://www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2012/recruiting_co/startups/

Industry Affiliates Recruiting Fair
10/25; 11:00am – 4:00pm; Atrium and Commons
Bring your resume and chat with recruiters from lots of companies! A list of recruiting companies may be viewed here: http://www.cs.washington.edu/industrial_affiliates/meetings/2012/recruiting_co/

Intel Talk: College Grad Careers at Intel
10/25; 5:30pm – 6:30pm; EEB 125
Representatives from the following groups will be on hand to share opportunities and experiences with you: Early SW Intern Program; Mobile Communications Group; Software and Services Group; Intel Architecture Development Group; Intel Custom Foundry; Corporate Services; Logic Technology Development; Assembly Test Manufacturing.

Please bring your resume! Raffles and food provided!! For more info on opportunities to join our Intel team, visit: intel.com/jobs or @MikeAtIntel