———- Forwarded message ——— From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu> Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 10:00 PM Subject: [Professional-staff] [Cs-staff] GeekWire Awards To: Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
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I write as a former GeekWire “Geek of the Year” to encourage you to stuff the ballot box for the GeekWire Awards in favor of Ali Farhadi’s Xnor.ai, nominated for “AI Innovation of the Year.” Please vote early and often here:
Tl; dr We’ve put up some posters in the CSE2 undergraduate commons for you to stick dots on if you relate to the prompt. There’s also a poster for you to be vulnerable and share a story of failure if you wish. Your input counts, and it could help your peers. It’s anonymous, so go do it!
You’ve probably heard multiple times that failure is a great opportunity and it isn’t something to be afraid or ashamed of. However, CSE has developed a culture of being extremely ambitious, and handling failure among a community of such high-performing peers is particularly difficult. Our high-achieving community can lead to lots of us feeling inadequate and that we don’t belong here. Often in CSE we overhear people talking about their accomplishments, but rarely do we talk about our experiences with failure (and, shocking as it may be, every single one of us has failed at some point). Come break the ice, be vulnerable, and help your peers by showing your fellow CSE classmates that we are not a community of ultra-perfect beings and that we are, in fact, human.
Stay tuned for our upcoming failure and vulnerability panel discussion!
Tomorrow (4/6) we are hosting 150+ CS high school direct admits and their 200+ guests as part of UW’s Admitted Student Preview Day. You can expect controlled chaos from 11:30am to 6pm in both buildings (but mostly Gates). 2:30pm – 5:30pm will be the most high traffic time (this is when we will be doing tours).
You are more than welcome to still use the buildings tomorrow. If you are around, feel free to say hello and engage with these students and families. We want them to come here next year!
Thanks! We hope your first week of school went well!
Learn about various diversity in tech conferences and how to apply for them. We will go over the different ways you can apply for scholarships, key tips that can make your applications stand out, and also our own experiences at these conferences. We will also have our advisors talk about the application process for CSE students (open later this spring). Dinner will be provided. As always, all CSE students are welcome!
ACMW is committed to ensuring that our events are accessible for all students and is happy to arrange disability accommodations for students (with advanced notice). Please reach out to Raven Avery (our staff adviser) at ravena@cs.uw.edu if you have any questions or requests. Please note that we occasionally may not be able to fulfill a specific request, but will do the very best we can to ensure you have a positive experience at our event!
Intelligent Machinery, Identity and Ethics is a rich, interdisciplinary course on the past, present, and future of intelligence, both natural and artificial. The early lectures detail the history of computing, and the way it dovetails with the history of neuroscience, the industrial revolution, math and philosophy. The middle section will zoom out to consider the role of computing and intelligence in natural and evolutionary processes, as well as its role in redefining, augmenting, and sometimes harming individuals and society. ML Fairness and, more broadly AI ethics are part of this picture. In the final third, we’ll explore some of the future implications of large-scale trends and emerging capabilities.
While most of the course material doesn’t require specialized knowledge, the readings (about 100 pages/week) are at times challenging and cover a wide range of disciplines, ranging from journal papers in computer science, biology, social science, and neuroscience to book chapters in the history of art, critical theory, economics, science and technology studies, and the history of ideas.
We piloted this course in Fall 2018. The overall course rating from that first run was already quite high (4.9 out of 5), with student comments like “VERY intellectually stimulating”, “among my top 2 courses at UW”, and “made me look at the world in a new way”. We’re hoping that, with the benefit of experience and feedback, this second version will be even better.
The course is offered under CSE 490 T and CSE 590 T. We encourage Direct Admits and newly enrolled CSE students to consider taking this course as well.
I’m Daisy, Director of Corporate Relations at Dubstech. I’m reaching out because we are officially kicking off the 1st Annual DubsTech Awards.
Dubstech, is the largest and most active registered student tech organization on campus. The main purpose of our club is to give students an opportunity to learn new tech skills through our workshops and talks and to showcase their talents through our hackathons and design jams. To date, we have hosted more than 70 tech-themed events (such as workshops, talks, hackathons, design jams) with an average attendance of 60 to 70 students.
As part of our initiative to allow students to showcase their talents, we have decided to launch the 1st Annual DubsTech Awards – a competition seeking to award the most innovative and creative technology projects made by students on campus. We’re partnering with Google Cloud Services, Humans Of Tech- a division of DubsTech, and various sponsors to come, to challenge students in the fields of UX Design, Data Science, Software Development, and Hardware Development.
DubTech Awards will highlight the amazing tech projects students have completed inside as well as outside the classroom while at the University of Washington. This will not only help them get recognized for their efforts but also help students become more aware of the outstanding projects being made by the students of the various schools on campus.
For more information and to apply, they can visit this link: http://dubstechawards.tilda.ws/The deadline to submit is April 26th.
The winners will be showcased on the Dubstech Awards website and the winning project teams will get an opportunity to showcase their outstanding work at our 1st Annual Dubstech Tech Showcase in May 2019.
If you have any questions at all, please feel free to reach out to dubstech@uw.edu. —
Are you interested in discussing different approaches to teaching Computer Science? Are you wondering what kind of research people do in CS education? Are you thinking about a career that involves a lot of CS teaching?
This quarter we are again offering a seminar for people interested in discussing topics related to Computer Science education. The format for this quarter will be a weekly discussion of readings from a variety of sources such as CS education conferences (e.g. SIGCSE, ITiCSE, ICER), journal articles on teaching approaches, or excerpts from books on teaching. Participants will be expected to do the readings, participate in weekly discussions, and lead or co-lead one of the discussions.
We will be meeting 10:30-11:20 am on Thursdays in CSE2 G04. Our first meeting will be Thursday (4/04), where we will discuss the schedule for the quarter in more detail. The plan is to continue this seminar in future quarters, so if you cannot join us in 19sp please check back in 19au!
Grad students should sign up for CSE 590 E (1 credit, ungraded). Undergraduate students are also very welcome, but will need to fill out this form to receive an add code: https://tinyurl.com/cs-ed-19sp
Postdocs also welcome! Additionally, if you are interested in future CS education-related announcements, please subscribe to cs-ed@cs here:
Hey Allen School students! We need volunteers for the UW’s annual Engineering Discovery Days! This event brings thousands of K-12 students to campus to learn about engineering, try fun demos, and explore campus. Discovery Days takes place on Thursday April 25, and Friday April 26. To learn more visit https://www.engr.washington.edu/future/k12/discoverydays
The next Ugrad Lunch with the Director, Hank Levy, will be the first week of spring quarter on Wednesday, April 3rd from 12-1pm, Zillow Commons (4th Floor Gates Center). We need an RSVP ahead of time so please take a minute to fill it out if there is any chance that you’ll be able to stop by even for part of the hour. This event is for any current Computer Science or Computer Engineering Undergraduate who is interested in hearing more about the department from the Director.
This is a chance for CSE Current Students to eat pizza, talk with Hank, eat more pizza, talk with advisors, and eat more pizza. We’re hoping to collect questions ahead of time, so please let us know what you’d like to hear about so we can make the best use of your time.
We are looking forward to seeing you all!
Crystal Eney Director of Student Services Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering
———- Forwarded message ——— From: Lucia Ersfeld <luciap@uw.edu> Date: Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 11:31 AM Subject: Survey and update from Allen School Director search advisory committee
Sent on behalf of Professors Mari Ostendorf and Tom Daniel, co-chairs of the Allen School Director search advisory committee.
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Dear Faculty, Students, and Staff,
As you learned in a letter from Dean Michael Bragg, in anticipation of the conclusion of Professor Hank Levy’s current term as the inaugural Director of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, the dean has appointed a search committee charged with identifying and recommending the best candidates to serve as the next Director. In a note to us, the dean indicated “We all believe that the Allen School will continue to increase its national and international impact and leadership under an outstanding new director.”
Toward these ends, we now turn to you for advice regarding this search for a new Director. In particular, we would like to hear your thoughts about the challenges facing the School as well as the opportunities the director will have to build on its strengths. All specific comments will remain confidential; common themes will be summarized in the committee report to the dean.
We will be setting up in-person meetings with members of the committee. There will be 30-min time slots for designated groups scheduled to meet with us in early April, and there will also be opportunities for individuals to meet with us in confidence, should they wish. We will send details of the schedule in the near future.
In the meantime, we have also put together an anonymous web survey, which can be found here:
