CSE Undergrad News

Free food, drinks, and games today from 5:30pm-8:30pm in the Atrium!

The College of Engineering scholarship application for the 2012-2013 academic year is open now. The application will close on May 1 at 5pm.

http://www.engr.washington.edu/curr_students/scholarships.html

CSE takes scholarship applications twice per year. You should apply during this application period if:

• You are a Computer Engineering major. CSE only has a small amount of awards to give out this application cycle, given to us by the College of Engineering, which means that only CE students are eligible to receive them.
• You wish to be considered for College of Engineering awards such as Emerging Leaders, etc.: http://www.engr.washington.edu/curr_students/studentprogs/emergingleaders.html (CE and CS majors eligible, be sure to select “College of Engineering” when applying).

The bulk of the 2012-2013 CSE scholarships are awarded during the summer application period (Aug 1-Sept 1). So if you don’t fit into any of the above categories, don’t worry. You have a second chance!

Dear CSE Students,

With the consent of Professor Levy (CSE Chair) and the department, I am conducting a NSF-funded research study entitled “Exploring the Undergraduate Experience in Computing Education.” I am seeking second-year students (or those who plan to graduate in Spring 2014) to participate.

Participation in the study is voluntary and would involve completing an in-person interview lasting for about an hour, scheduled at your convenience. All student participants will receive a $25 Amazon.com gift card for participating in the study, and may elect to continue with follow-up interviews in the next two academic years. If you are interested in participating, please respond to this email with your availability so that we can schedule a date and time for the interview. I will be on campus next week, March 5-9, and can meet during the day or early evenings.

Thank you in advance for your time and participation in this research project. Please feel free to contact me at any time if you should have any questions about the study.

Sincerely,

Dr. Laura Portnoi
Associate Professor
Advanced Studies in Education and Counseling
Email: lportnoi@csulb.edu
Phone: 562-985-7047

I am casting for a cool pairs scavenger hunt that will take place in Seattle to air on the new Yahoo! Network.  It’s sponsored by Ford Motor Company to promote their all-new 2012 Ford Focus Electric (which is amazing, by the way).  They’re looking for tech-savvy people and I could not think of a better place to look than the UW computer department.  I’m going to post the complete casting notice below.

If interested, please email Jude directly at:  jude.matalavage@magicalelves.com

Here’s the “OFFICIAL” casting notice:

NEW REALITY COMPETITION SERIES NOW CASTING!
ENTER NOW FOR YOUR CHANCE AT AN ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME AND OPPORTUNITY TO WIN AN ALL-NEW FORD FOCUS ELECTRIC!

Emmy-winning TV production company Magical Elves (Top Chef, Project Runway, Braxton Family Values), Yahoo! Inc. and Ford Motor Company are teaming up to create the ultimate reality competition series that could land you – rather quickly – in the driver’s seat of the all-new 2012 Ford Focus Electric.

We are looking for a select group of drivers – teams of two with an open-mind, strong personality and a hunger for adventure – to take the wheel of the first all-electric vehicle from Ford.

You and a teammate will compete against other teams to complete a scavenger hunt route with varying challenges. Competition locations under consideration include: SEATTLE – also (Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Austin, Houston, Chicago, Richmond, Washington DC, Raleigh, Atlanta, and Boston.)

Besides the experience of a lifetime, you will be competing for an all-new Focus Electric for yourself and your teammate.

To apply:
Email Judeincasting@yahoo.com immediately.
Put your City and State in the subject line.
Include at least two pictures of you and the partner you are applying with.
Also include:
Your names
Nearest “Fully Charged” challenge city (see above)
Phone numbers
Email addresses (please include other team member’s address in the cc line)
How you know each other and
Several sentences why the two of you would be best the best fit for this exciting opportunity.

Show us you’ve got what it takes to be a part of this amazing experience!

U.S. residents only.  Must be at least 18 years of age.  Must possess valid U.S. drivers license. Additional restrictions may apply.

This e-mail and any attachment is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, copying, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer or handheld device. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not the views of Magical Elves, Inc.

“I thought this talk may be of interest to the CS folks. Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy the founder and CTO of Gluster will provide an overview of global file systems and discuss how the Gluster global filesystem deals with the technical issues of meta data, locking, speed, and redundacy on March 8th. For more details check out:

http://www.sasag.org/2012/02/27/mar-8th-meeting-gluster-file-system/

cheers,
ski

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe” John Muir

Chris “Ski” Kacoroski, Secretary of LOPSA
206-501-9803, ski98033 on IRC and most IM services”

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Paul Beame <beame@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: Low enrollment undergrad courses
To: Crystal Eney <ceney@cs.washington.edu>

A lot of you are tying to get into a number of our courses this quarter where space is tight.    We will try to help.   At the same time, however, many of you are missing out on very important project and capstone courses that are some of the truly unique opportunities offered by this department, not duplicated anywhere else.  Though they may not be required of you if you are a CS major, they are just as valuable for Computer Science majors as for Computer Engineering majors.

• These are the kinds of interdisciplinary and team-oriented experiences that employers are looking for.
• They are chances to work on cutting edge topics that go well beyond “textbook” content.
• They are fun!

Courses this quarter include: 428, 441, 477, and both offerings of 481.

Especially in times of tight budgets, our ability to offer these courses in the future depends on continued student interest.

For more information see: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/academics/capstones_philosophy.pdf

Paul

NetApp Tech Talk; Mon, February 27, 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EE 105

Join us to learn more about one of the most Innovative and GREATEST places to work!!!

Guest speakers, FREE food and giveaways!!!

Intentional Software tech talk – Making Software Intentionally; Tue, February 28, 5:30pm – 7:00pm; Commons

Intentional Software, making Software intentionally. Please join Shane Clifford, VP of Application Development for Intentional Software Corporation to learn more about the concept of “intentional software” that captures the intentions and knowledge of the users (domain) and displays it in a variety of visual projections in a structured editing environment. We are pioneering the world’s leading language workbench technology and are initially applying it to create domain specific knowledge intensive workbenches for clients with high value problems that no-one else can solve. Shane will demonstrate application of Intentional Software’s technology and methods to real world problems. Intentional Software creates and combines simple yet powerful domain specific languages that empower business and technical experts to express their knowledge and participate directly in the software creation process. Examples from vehicle design, healthcare, and other domains will be demonstrated and explained.

Winterfest; Fri, March 2, 5:30pm – 8:30pm; Atrium

Hangout with all your CSE friends this friday. Games, food, drinks.

We are seeking outstanding and enthusiastic students to join our synthetic and systems biology team in the department of bioengineering. The research will involve developing and researching the next generation of interactive software tools in the field of systems and synthetic biology. The work will involve rebooting our simulation and analysis capabilities with particular emphasis on visualization, novel user interfaces, model reproducibility, versioning, tracking and model component repositories. Desktop tools will also be integrated with the web to enable collaborative modeling.

Prior experience of software development with Java, Javascript, OR other programming languages such as C/C++, C#,  Matlab, Python and Delphi is a must. Web development experience is a plus. A willingness to adapt and be self-motivated is essential. Familiarity with current standards and modeling efforts in systems and synthetic biology, such as SBML, SBOL and SED-ML is desirable but not essential at this stage.

Research credit is available now, with the possibility of funding in the future.

Contact  Stanley Gu, stanleygu@gmail.com

Hey everyone,

A few reminders/updates from advising.

1. Even if a class is full and you see that there are no more spaces, please still try to add the course as it allows us to see unmet demand for courses. It won’t put you on a waiting list, but it will help us see where we may need to expand courses.

2. If you are not graduating this spring/summer and plan to take a 400 level course that requires 333 this fall, please fill out the catalyst survey.

3. We should be opening a few more spaces in CSE 352, 403 and  431 in the next week or so.   Those spaces will be filled by whoever gets there first.

4. For students who have finished most of their 300’s there are also a few capstones this spring that still have space.

Thank you,

CSE Advising