CSE Undergrad News

Hello, I’m Tim Vega and  I’m TAing for the Undergrad Research Seminar, https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/timjv/29655/, this quarter.  We would like undergrad speakers to present their work to a group of about 20 undergrads, ranging from sophomores to seniors, on Fridays from 12:30 – 1:20.

The goal of the seminar is to get undergrads to recognize that doing research isn’t just for students going to grad school, seniors doing a thesis, 4.0 students, and students with extensive experience. We’re doing outreach to get undergrads involved with graduate students, faculty, and research.

It would be great if you could speak about what it is you work or have worked on, what you’re trying to accomplish, and entertain the undergrads with a technical, yet accessible, aspect of your research.

We’d additionally like for you to talk about your background: class year/standing, how long you’ve been doing research, what you’ve learned, what it’s like working with faculty/grads, etc.

As an undergrad you’ll have a large advantage in being able to relate to the class. This is also a great chance to practice public speaking if you happen to be working on a senior thesis and need to do a presentation.

Would anyone like to be a speaker for our seminar?

Launching your career? Seeking to advance your professional life? Change careers? Graduate school may be exactly what you need.

Learn how to find the right graduate program and school for you and how to apply through a weekend workshop this summer, taught by professors in the University of Washington Graduate School. This two-day, non-credit workshop is a condensed version of the popular two-credit course we offer each quarter.

More information on this workshop offered by the UW Graduate School can be found here: http://grad.uw.edu/discover/preparing-for-grad-school-workshop.shtml

We are looking for a volunteer or two to escort 3 HS seniors (who were newly admitted to UW) to web programming on Friday, April 6th and also give a short informal tour of the CSE building. You would meet them in front of class around 12:20 and then give the tour after class. You’d be free by 2pm 🙂

Please let me know if you are interested! Bonus points if you are also taking CSE 332 — we have another, more advanced student, who is interested in attending CSE 332 the same day.

 Usability Evaluation of a Tool for Improving Integrated

Development Editor Recommendation Engines

Kivanc Muslu

kivanc@cs.washington.edu

Subject: Participants Wanted for Usability Study of an Eclipse plug-in April 2-12th

You are invited to participate in research investigating the usability of Quick Fix Scout, an Eclipse plug-in that improves Quick Fix by providing the consequences of each recommendation in a Quick Fix dialog.

The purpose of this research is to better understand the role of recommendation tools (Eclipse Quick Fix particularly) in common development tasks. We are especially investigating the practical effects of providing consequences of each recommendation to the developer.

You may be eligible to participate if you meet the following criteria:

• You are at least 18 years old.
• You are familiar [UWCSE1] with Java programming language, Eclipse Integrated Development Editor and Quick Fix.

If you decide to participate, we will schedule an appointment with you in the Allen Center at the University of Washington. This appointment will last about 90 minutes. You will be asked to resolve compilation errors in two sets of projects. Afterwards, you will be asked questions about how you completed the tasks, as well as some questions about your background in Java / Eclipse and Quick Fix.

You will be using standard computer equipment such as a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to perform tasks. As in regular programming tasks, you may become stressed or frustrated in response to the inherent difficulty and intellectual challenges of the task. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the plug-in, not the success of the participants. There are no consequences if you do not complete a task in time allotted. The risk of injury, stress or discomfort is the same as encountered in daily life. There are no foreseeable benefits to you for participating in this research. Study participants will be compensated for their time with a $20 Amazon.com gift card. To accept the monetary reward for completion of the study, we must collect your name and address. This is an institutional policy of the University of Washington. You are not obligated to accept this reward.

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 any questions about the research or are interested in participating, please contact Kivanc Muslu at kivanc@cs.washignton.edu, or by phone at (206) 849-1411.

We cannot guarantee the confidentiality of information sent by email.

Looking for an additional credit? Interested in learning about research in the department? There’s still room in CSE 497: Undergraduate Research Seminar. The seminar will meet on Fridays from 12:30 to 1:20 in CSE 403.

More info can be found on the previous blog announcement: /2012/03/16/cse-497-undergraduate-research-seminar-now-on-the-time-schedule/

It’s that time of the year again, us ACM/W officers will be stepping down and we need to get new officers elected.

This is a great opportunity for a leadership role and departmental involvement!

Nominate people you think are worthy to take the reigns of ACM by going to: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/timjv/162727

You can nominate as many people as you’d like.

Specific officer roles will be determined in the future.

Hey everyone! We’ve only got two entries so far. We need designs so we can get some sweet tshirts! 🙂

Turn your designs in here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/collectit/dropbox/timjv/20261

Robotics seminar, advanced upper classman can contact Professor Fox regarding permission to register.

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From: Dieter Fox <fox@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:40 AM
Subject: Robotics Colloquium 590R
To: faculty – Mailing List <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Mailing List – cs-grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>

I am very excited to announce the new UW CSE Robotics Colloquium. This colloquium
will feature a mix of invited and local faculty presenting a broad set of topics in
robotics.

Time:     Fridays 2:30pm
Location: CSE 305
Signup:   590R

We’ll kick off the series with a talk by Andrea Thomaz from Georgia Tech. Andrea is
doing some of the most interesting work in human robot interaction, which is becoming
a very hot topic in robotics.

The list of all speakers and topics is at http://www.cs.washington.edu/news_events/robotics_colloquia

Very best,
Dieter

one credit seminar open to ugrads

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From: Gaetano Borriello <gaetano@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:10 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Spring quarter CSE590F – Reading and Research in Computing for Development

Join us for the CSE 590F (ICTD Seminar – Computing for Development) on
Tuesdays at 1:30 in CSE 203.  This quarter we will be discussing
papers from the recent DEV and ICTD conferences held in Atlanta in
March 2012.

The first day’s paper is already set:

Shreddr: pipelined paper digitization for low-resource organizations.

Nicki Dell will be leading the discussion with help from others.
After that, we’ll get volunteers for the other 9 papers and possibly
re-arrange them.

See http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/590f/ for the list
of papers for this quarter (unordered except for the first).

If you have any interest in applying computing, information, and
communication technology to real-world problems, please consider
attending.

Gaetano Borriello and Richard Anderson
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