CSE Undergrad News

We had mentioned to some of you that CSE 311 may be offered this winter quarter (even though it still isn’t officially on the teaching schedule). We’ve been informed that while they are still trying to find an instructor, it isn’t set yet and therefore it may NOT be offered.  If you are new to the 300 level courses and are not in 311 this fall, you should consider taking it this fall or know that you *may* need to wait until spring quarter.

We will try to keep everyone posted as much as possible.

CSE Advising

The Computational Biology Group at Stanford is recruiting PhD students.

Application deadline is December 11, 2012
Start date would be September 2013

For more info see the flyer: http://www.cs.washington.edu/public_files/ugrad/ugradnews/compbioflyer-lores-v5.pdf

Ed Lazowska lazowska@cs.washington.edu	Aug 31 (4 days ago)
to Cs-Grads, Cs-Ugrads

Information here on the GeekWire “Seattle 2.0 Startup Day”:

http://www.geekwire.com/events/geekwire-presents-seattle-20-startup-day/

GeekWire’s events are traditionally really worthwhile.

Hey folks,

Just a heads up that CSE 467 will not be offered next year.  If you are planning to take the CSE 477 capstone, CSE 466 or EE 472 will be the only prerequisite required.

CSE and the Animation Research Labs invite you to an information session on the Animation Production undergraduate course sequence at UW Seattle. This sequence will run from Autumn 2012 through Spring 2013.

The Animation Capstone culminates in a very professional and exciting collaboratively produced digital short film, similar in process to Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks productions. Examples of previous award winning films produced in the dept will be shown and questions regarding applications and admission, etc. will be addressed. We look forward to seeing you there. Light refreshments will be served.

WHEN:
Thursday August 23rd, 4:00 PM
Wednesday August 29th, 2:00 PM

WHERE:
Paul G. Allen Center room 691 (Gates Commons, 6th floor)

MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/ap/

MEBI 531 – “Life and Death Computing” (SLN #16717)

Tuesdays/Thursdays, Autumn Quarter 2012

2:30 – 3:50 p.m. in South Campus Center, Room 350

Instructor:  Ira J. Kalet, Ph.D., FACMI

Professor Emeritus, Radiation Oncology

Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education

MEBI 531 is about the application of computer software and technology to safety critical problems in medicine and health care, as well as the use of computing ideas to unlock the secrets of life.  The programming language we will mainly use is Common Lisp, which will provide an opportunity to learn (or increase your knowledge of) this very unusual and powerful programming language, by focusing on advanced programming ideas.  These include some in depth discussion of functional programming, object-oriented programming, meta-programming, the use of macros to create higher level language constructs, and how these might be used in solving biomedical computing problems.  Prerequisites are an interest in abstract mathematical thinking, and programming knowledge at the level of CSE 142.  The particular programming language does not matter.  If you don’t already know Lisp, it is easy to learn, and specific knowledge of Lisp is not a prerequisite.

Especially well prepared undergraduates, as well as any interested graduate students, are welcome to enroll.  Contact the instructor, Ira Kalet, ikalet@uw.edu, if you have any questions.

Consider attending Seattle Give Camp, a weekend event where software developers, PMs, and designers come together to help charities. October 19-21, 2012

Here is the website, slide deck, and sign up form.

Seattle Give Camp allows students them to give back to the community and also gives them a chance to work with experienced professionals, network, and have something to put on their resume.  Also there will be some classes on real world topics such as Salesforce, CMS, and SEO.

Participants can bring sleeping bags and spend the night.  Food will be provided.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hope to see you there,

Michael Roshak MCDBA, MCAD, Ph.d (ABD)
(425) 405-0301

PHYS217: Energy Future – The Science, Economic Opportunity, and Climatic Impact of Sustainable Energy
5 credits, IS or NW credit

Autumn 2012 (SLN 22027)
MW 2:30-4:20PM, and Th 2:30-3:20 in Physics-Astronomy Auditorium PAA118

Instructor: Prof. G. Seidler (seidler@uw.edu)

Course Content
In PHYS217 we will survey many different aspects of sustainable and renewable energy
production from both technical and social perspectives. The only prerequisites for the class are
a good grasp of basic mathematics (algebra, only — no calculus) and an enthusiasm to learn
about a core issue for the future of almost every aspect of our day-to-day lives.

The main text for the course, “Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air”, by David MacKay, is
available as a free PDF (see www.withouthotair.com). We will address parts I and II. This
will be supplemented with similarly highly-reliable and highly-readable sources on topics
including: the social impact of energy policy, global climate change, economic opportunity in a
sustainable energy society, energy efficiency, and present modes of energy production and
consumption. Some lectures will include presentations from UW faculty performing research
on sustainable energy. All class meetings will be video-recorded and made available via the
UW’s screen-casting service.

Assignments and Grading
There will be assigned reading for each lecture and a weekly online quiz based on the reading
and lecture material. There will be no midterm exams. The final exam will be a take-home
exam, distributed near the end of the term.

Questions? Contact: seidler@uw.edu

Last year’s webpage: tinyurl.com/EFuture2012

Course Opportunity this Autumn: HCDE 496/596
Directed Research: Remotely Assessing the User Experience

We are looking for CSE students to help us develop an open source
software toolkit (WebLabUX) that allows web designers to remotely
assess the effectiveness of different website designs by measuring
users’ behaviors, perceptions, and comprehension when they interact
with information online. You can earn course credit while helping us
develop our toolkit.

Autumn 2012 activities that would be of interest to CSE students include:

PHP/MySQL coding of backend data collection infrastructure
User interface coding (HTML/CSS, JavaScript/JQuery, Drupal theming)
Quality assurance testing

Individual students will drive the development and testing of a
feature or set of features of the software, under supervision of a
senior graduate student and faculty member.

Students can participate in this research group by enrolling for 2-5
credits (graded cr/no cr) in HCDE 496 (for undergraduate students) or
HCDE 596 (for graduate students). Students are expected to spend, on
average, three hours of effort per credit per week. We will meet
weekly on Tuesdays from 3:30-5:00. Interested students should send a
short email to Professor Jan Spyridakis (jansp@uw.edu) explaining
their interest in the group and suggesting what software development
strengths they could contribute to the group.

Thank you,

Jan

Jan Spyridakis
Professor and Chair
Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering

University of Washington
Box 352315
Seattle, WA 98195
206-685-1557 (fax 206-543-8858)
http://www.hcde.uw.edu/jansp