CSE Undergrad News

Lunch with the CSE Department Chair is today May 9th from noon to 1 in the Gates Commons  (room 691).  This is open to all current CSE undergraduates. We look forward to seeing you.

Subject: Paid participants wanted for software engineering user study

You are invited to evaluate a tool for verifying the absence of bugs in software.

Participants will spend 2-3 hours using a software verification tool, and answering a questionnaire. Each participant will be given a $35 Amazon gift certificate. The study will take place at the Paul Allen Center at the University of Washington.

If you are over 18 and have completed CSE 331 (or its equivalent), you may be eligible to participate. The risks associated with study are consistent with the risks of regular computer use, including but not limited to: ergonomic risk, and possible frustration when learning and performing the computer task.

This study is being conducted in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle campus. Your participation in this research is voluntary, and you are free to refuse to participate or quit the experiment at any time.

If you have questions about the research or are interested in participating, please contact Todd Schiller by email attws@cs.washington.edu. The University of Washington Human Subjects Division requires us to inform you that we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of information sent by email.

FYI, the add code was only on CSE 352 until the course moved to its new time. That has happened so the add code was removed and you should be able to register.

Crystal Eney

University of Washington – Seattle

Hey everyone, we’re holding spring undergrad research night in a few weeks on  Tuesday, May 22nd at 4:30pm and we need about 5 undergrads with research experience to talk and field questions for other undergrads who are potentially interested in doing research.

If you’re interested in helping out, please reply. We’ll need you for about 30 minutes during the actual event.

Hey CSE Grads and Undergrads!
Join us for an exciting canoe and picnic trip on Saturday 5/19 10:30am to 1:30pm. Come make some new friends (grad and undergrad, men and women) while paddling on Lake Washington and we might even get to see some cute ducklings! It’ll be an adventure!!!

Meet in the atrium @10:30AM or by the WAC @10:50AM

Ready to build some web apps?! Come join Marty and other UW students in our annual hackathon sponsored by Google and Yahoo!

This year we have broken the event into two segments. We have the Lightning Round (6 hours) for those of you that don’t want to give up a whole day for the competition and a 24-hour hack for those brave/crazy enough to code the night away.

Come for free food, great prizes and a great night of coding!

So, here is the schedule:
– 5pm Kickoff
– 6pm Dinner
– 11pm Lightning round ends and presentations begin
– 11:30pm Lightning round award ceremony
– 3am What, are you still up?
– 8am Breakfast
– 12pm Lunch
– 5pm Competition ends and presentations begin
– 5:30pm Award ceremony

Rules:
– The max team size is 4 UW students
– The contest officially starts at 5pm on Friday the 11th. You can do research, but don’t start officially working on the project until the competition starts.

Hey folks,

First, capstone registration will take place in a few weeks. We’ll send out a survey, have you request your 1st and 2nd choice for a capstone, and then we will pre-assign students for the following year, so stay tuned for that.

Second, for those interested in HCI, there is a HCDE course that you are eligible for, see details below:

If any HCI focused or any CSE-CS students interested in registering for
 HCDE 417 – Usability Research autumn quarter 2012, please encourage them 
to complete an add code request at HTTP://TINYURL.COM/6PPNAKP .  
Prerequisites will be waived for them.

HCDE 417 Usability Research Techniques (5) 
Introduces usability research methods used in the product-development 
process; contextual inquiry, surveys and interviews, focus groups, 
user profiling, usability testing, cognitive walkthroughs, heuristics, 
and others.

The UW CSE ACM Teaching Award is given each year to a faculty member elected by the undergraduate majors in the department. The ACM Chapter is proud to organize this process and to recognize some of our outstanding teachers.

Please fill out this short survey to nominate a professor for the ACM Teaching Award.

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/timjv/167332

T-Shirts and Hoodies are now available for purchase here:

http://www.abstractionary.com/uw_cse_2012

Orders will only be open until May 20th