This program will be held in collaboration with Sunkyunkwan University (SKKU). Readings will be assigned in advance so that the time abroad will be largely experiential. Seminar topics will include: Korean language and culture instruction, social change, popular culture, and technology, and social computing. Guest lectures on information industry, economics, politics, and information culture. Korea is a leading country in IT adoption. Per capita, it has the most broadband access of any country in the world. Its fast moving Internet-based applications, culture and life will provide students a sense of what will come to the United States in the next five years. Online Gaming is prevalent across genders and ages. Cultural activities will include visits to a handful of Seoul’s numerous museums and palaces, an overnight stay at a Buddhist temple, a theater performance (Nanta), and a trip to the DMZ. The first two weeks of the Seminar will take place in Seoul, with SKKU providing on-campus housing. In the third week of the Seminar, we will travel to Busan. The Seminar will return to Seoul during the final week, with students staying at a hotel in downtown Seoul.
We need to clarify a few things about the spring CSE 490’s. These are special topics courses and although the time schedule does not have listed prereqs, there ARE prerequisites for many of these courses that you all need to be aware of:
CSE 490R- Robotics: Prerequisites: CSE 332 (required), MATH 308 (recommended), CSE 312, will count as Core
CSE 490 A – Software Entrepreneurship – no stated prereqs, offered join with ENTRE 432 by the School of Business, Will count as CSE senior elective, not a core course
CSE 490 L will become CSE 340: Prerequisite – CSE 143, Will count as Core
CSE 490 T – INTELLIGENT MACHINERY, IDENTITY, AND ETHICS, 2 credits course information at: TINYURL.COM/CSE490-590T
Just a friendly reminder that applications for the Big/Littles program close TONIGHT (March 13th) at 11:59PM. Please read the form carefully and answer the questions as best you can!
If you are new admits, please sign up to be a little! We have fantastic bigs who are excited to welcome you into the CSE community and answer questions you may have throughout the quarter. A spot as a little in this program is restricted to new admits in their first quarter so take advantage of this opportunity to meet more students in the CSE community. 🙂
Remember, bigs must have been in CSE for at least two quarters AND have completed the CSE 311 class. This is just to ensure that our bigs are well prepared for questions that the new admits may have for them. If you don’t meet these requirements this quarter, we encourage you to sign up as bigs for fall quarter as we will be needing a large number of bigs to help mentor the fall quarter admits.
———- Forwarded message ——— From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu> Date: Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 1:38 PM Subject: [Professional-staff] [Cs-staff] Allen School VR installation/opening in Art Building, Tuesday at 5:30 To:
Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, Staff
<cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads
<cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
Barbara
Mones and her students have created a VR installation that will
celebrate its opening on Tuesday March 12 at 5:30 in the Jacob Lawrence
Art Gallery in
the Art Building. (The installation will be open until the 17th, 10-12
or 2-5.) It’s a great collaboration between Barbara, her creative and hard-working students, and the School of Art.
We’ve been working all year to finally bring all of CSE some awesome ACM-W swag! We are now accepting pre-orders for our brand new sweatshirts, the perfect way to stay warm in this cold weather.
The last day to place your orders is Thursday, March 14. Pre-ordering is the only way you can get your hands on these, so don’t wait up! And … here is the link to order the sweatshirts: https://goo.gl/forms/VTx3MCcWgeC9h9AF3.
The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering has been hosting Summer Camps for K-12 students since 2012. Since then we have hosted a wide variety of camps lead by faculty, grad students, undergrads, and local area teachers. These camps have provided a fun Computer Science learning experience to hundreds of students.
I am reaching out to our fantastic community here for folks who would like to get involved with our programming this Summer for k-12 students. We hire Counselors and Instructors every year to help us run these camps and other programs.
If you are interested in being a part of a great summer experience for local students, please fill out the linked form below and indicate how you’d like to be involved!
We are continuing our ACM Big Little Program and are looking for volunteers to act as mentors for our new Spring 2019 Admits!
Who can be a Big?
If you have been a Allen School student for at least 2 quarters (including Winter 2019) and have already taken CSE 311, you are eligible to be a Big. Specifically, we are looking for anyone excited to meet and guide new students in the CSE major. Depending on the number of participants, the number of Littles you have will vary but we had a 1:1 or 1:2 ratio of Bigs to Littles in the past!
If you were a Big previously, you are more than welcome to sign up again!
Why be a Big?
As our program begins to expand, the amount of students who are new to the Allen School (or in some cases, to UW) is increasing drastically. We want to ensure that our Allen School community continues to be a supportive environment despite the growth in student numbers. Being a Big is a great way to connect with new CSE students. We hope to match you with students that have similar backgrounds, interests or pathways to you to ease their transition into the Allen School.
Time Commitment
We expect Bigs and Littles to meet up on their own time to get coffee/boba, study, or eat dinner a couple of times throughout the quarter.
Additionally, ACM will host a variety of events specifically for Bigs and Littles. As we understand people may have time conflicts, they will not be mandatory – only highly encouraged!
To volunteer, please submit this volunteer form by Wednesday, March 13th at 11:59PM.
The ETS (Ecole de technologie suprieure) in Montreal, Canada is hosting the Sixth Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop (https://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/19-workshop). We are seeking outstanding members of the current junior class to join a summer research workshop on language engineering from June 24 to August 3, 2019.
The 8-week workshop provides an intense intellectual environment. Undergraduates work closely alongside senior researchers as part of a multi-university research team, which has been assembled for the summer to attack some problem of current interest.
The teams and topics for summer 2019 include: * Speaker Detection in Adverse Scenarios with a Single Microphone * Distant supervision for representation learning in speech and handwriting * Improving Translation of Informal Language * Using Cooperative Ad-hoc Microphone Arrays for ASR * Neural Polysynthetic Language Modeling
We hope that this stimulating and selective experience will encourage students to pursue graduate study in human language technology, as it has been doing for many years.
The summer workshop provides: * An opportunity to explore an exciting new area of research * A two-week tutorial on current speech and language technology * Mentoring by experienced researchers * Participation in project planning activities * Use of cloud computing services * A $5,600 stipend and $2,500 towards per diem expenses * Private furnished accommodation for the duration of the workshop * Travel expenses to and from the workshop venue
Applicants apply via a form on the workshop’s page (http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops/current). Applications should be received by Friday, March 15th, 2019. The applicant must provide the name and contact information of a faculty nominator, who will be asked to upload a recommendation letter by March 23, 2019. Please note that the application will not be considered complete until it includes both the C.V. and the letter.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop
Want to make a social impact and give back to society? Take a break from studying and join SAC on March 7th to make well-wishes cards for Seattle Children’s Hospital and LifeLong. Write your best wishes and encouragement to send to children with illness at Seattle Children’s Hospital and to send with a meal to people with lifelong illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS.
What is the SAC? We are a CSE student-run organization and our aim is to foster a positive learning environment for our peers by hosting events and discussion forums. We use input from you, the students, to guide our conversations with staff and faculty which ultimately lead to improvements in the school.
SAC 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 csesac@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!
