CSE Undergrad News

I recommend you check this out, I was just in Boulder recently, beautiful place and a very interesting program. We have a former ugrad of ours there now who could answer questions for you as well.  Let me know if you’re interested.

-Crystal

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From: Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:57 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Interested in a MS in technology for global development?
To: cs-ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>

The ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder is
actively seeking students who wish to combine technology and
international development for its Masters of Science in Information
and Communication Technology for Development (MS-ICTD). The MS-ICTD
program is the first stand-alone ICTD master’s degree in the US, and
is welcoming applicants for the 3rd cohort. The first two cohorts are
currently spending practicum semesters with ICTD organizations,
development agencies and high tech companies, including work in
Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and depressed communities in the
US. The program aims to attract students from a variety of backgrounds
for a three-semester residency program and a semester-long fieldwork
practicum. If this sounds intriguing, please come to  room 258 in Mary
Gates Hall at 3:30 on Monday, Oct 31st, where program director Revi
Sterling will discuss the program and answer questions about courses
and opportunities.

For more information, please visit
http://www.colorado.edu/atlas/newatlas/masters/ for a detailed program
description or email Dr. Sterling at revi.sterling@colorado.edu.
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Isilon: Locking and cache coherency in a distributed file system; Tue, Oct 25, 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EE125
Isilon, a division of EMC, is a company that is developing combined software/hardware solutions to some of the world’s toughest enterprises data management challenges. Look forward to a real systems tech talk.

Redfin: How To Suck the Marrow Out Of Your First Job and Start Your Own Company Before Turning 25; Thu, Oct 27, 6:00pm – 7:30pm; EEB125
Finally, a talk for the startup/entrepeneur crowd. Come see Glenn Kalman, Redfin CEO, do stand-up comedy for an hour and a half.

From: James Athappilly <jamesath@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:15 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Last minute résumé help
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu

Yin, the Google recruiter for the UW will be in CSE 204 to help anyone with last minute résumé questions. She’ll be here until 5pm.

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From: Kathleen Tuite <ktuite@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:06 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Picard: a totally awesome facebook game for studying GRE flashcards
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu

Hi Undergrads!

Some of you are presumably applying to grad school this fall and need
to take the GRE in the future or near past. I assume your math skills
are probably pretty stellar, but maybe your vocab skills are a little
weak? If so, maybe WE can help YOU by having you help US by playing an
awesome flashcard-quizzing-and-drawing game called Picard!

You can find it here: https://www.centerforgamescience.com/picard/gre.php
and here: https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=155922757790872

Who we are: Some grad students in CSE all mostly associated with the
Center for Game Science who’ve been working on this game for a while.

What this is: We just want people to play! We *need* people to play,
as this is part of our grad student research. Playing consists of
quizzing (good for basic review) AND ALSO DRAWING (optional!!) which
is fun and actually awesome for helping you learn and remember things.
The drawings are called Picards (pic-card). This game is one of the
few IN EXISTENCE where players draw the content themselves AND where
the user-created content actually serves a purpose within and outside
of the game. Pretty neat, if you ask me!

Where’s the Star Trek? In addition to vocab words, we have some other
topics like Star Trek episodes, World Capitals, and Software Design
Patterns, which you’re welcome to try. You’re also more than welcome
to draw star trek themed Picards for any topic.

Thanks for taking a look!! If you have younger siblings prepping for
the SAT, we’ve also got SAT words (although I just pulled the lists
off the internet and they seem kind of similar…) Here’s the link a
couple more times:

https://www.centerforgamescience.com/picard/gre.php
https://www.centerforgamescience.com/picard/gre.php
https://www.centerforgamescience.com/picard/gre.php

Thanks again!
– Kathleen

P.S. If you’re concerned about the hefty FB permissions and the TOS,
here’s the deal: Picard WILL email you sometimes (because facebook
basically did away with notifications and changed them into “requests”
which make sense for farmville but not us) and Picard will only post
on your wall With Your Permission when you draw a Picard. The TOS just
has to do with getting human subject approval from IRB so we can write
a paper about this some day. If you make it past these and actually
play, you are awesome!

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship:

The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship was created to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. The awards will be distributed on the basis of merit. The University of Washington is eligible to nominate up to four outstanding candidates who are of sophomore or junior standing during the 2012-2013 academic year.

To be considered for campus nomination, a student must:

1. Be a full-time matriculated sophomore or junior pursuing a degree at an accredited institution of high education during the 2012-2013 academic year. Sophomores are eligible to receive up to two years of funding.

2. Have a college grade-point average or at least a “B” (or the equivalent) and be in the upper fourth of his or her class.

3. Be a United States citizen, a permanent resident, or a United States national. Nominations from permanent residents must include a letter of the nominee’s intent to obtain U.S. citizenship and a photocopy of the Permanent Resident Card.

4. To be competitive at the UW, students must have a minimum of three quarters of research experience and a minimum grade-point average of 3.5.

Applications for this years’ campus nominations are available online via the Goldwater Website. Students must submit the completed application, including essay and list of three to five faculty who are familiar with your work and you prospects and would be willing to write a letter of recommendation if you are selected. A faculty committee reviews application materials and four finalist are nominated for the national competition.

2011-2012 Campus Nomination Procedures:

Each applicant will need to submit the following:

Using the Barry Goldwater Online Application, www.act.org/goldwater/apply/index.html

· Complete the Goldwater Application. NOTE: Do not complete the recommenders section in that it will prompt each name listed to write a letter. We do not need that information for the campus nomination application. Also do not submit the application – that will not be needed for the campus nomination process.

Using the Catalyst “Collect It’ tool, please upload the following materials (Research Essay, Unofficial Transcript, List of Recomenders) labeling each using your first name, last name, item name — https://catalyst.uw.edu/collectit/dropbox/scholarq/17822

Campus Deadline: Tuesday, November 8, 2010, 11:45 p.m.

More information can be found at the Barry M. Goldwater website: http://www.act.org/goldwater/ or at on the Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards webpage: https://www.washington.edu/students/ugrad/scholar/scholarships/s/goldwater . If you have any questions about the Goldwater Scholarship, please direct questions to: Mona Pitre-Collins, mpitre@uw.edu

Mona

Mona Pitre-Collins | Director, Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards
Center for Experiential Learning | 171 Mary Gates Hall | Box 352803
University of Washington | Seattle | WA 98195 | 206-221-6059 | Fax 206-616-4389
http://exp.washington.edu/scholarships

Hello CSE Students,

As a general reminder at the start of the year, we’d like to take this opportunity to address restroom use in the building and on campus in general.

All students have a right to safe and appropriate restroom facilities. This includes the right to use a restroom that corresponds to the student’s gender identity, regardless of the student’s sex assigned at birth. Transgendered students are encouraged to use whichever restroom they feel more comfortable using. Please be respectful of your peers and classmates.

For students who prefer to use a gender-neutral restroom, please refer to this list of gender-neutral restrooms on campus.

If you have further questions regarding gender identity and other related topics the UW Q Center is a great on-campus resource.

Best,
CSE Ugrad Advisors

Wednesday October 19th 4:30 PM EEB 403

The U.S. Air Force is looking for Computer Science and Engineering sophomores and juniors for the Technical Degree Sponsorship Program.

This program is a great way to earn money while in school, work on the cutting edge in engineering, commission as a U.S. Air Force officer, and serve your country.

— Earn $3000 a month for up 2 years (through the summer) while in school with no military component! No ROTC-like training while in school! Focus 100% on your degree!
— During the summer, find internships with tech companies and get paid on top of it with your Air Force salary!
— Upon graduation, enter into a four year commitment as an Air Force engineering officer with a competitive engineering salary and benefits.
— All the benefits of an active-duty military member including discounts and retirement time earnings – while you are a student.
— Complete, comprehensive, and free medical, dental and vision healthcare while you are in school!
— A path towards a great engineering career with broad opportunities for graduate education through the GI Bill and tuition assistance.

If you are unable to attend, please contact Benjamin Nguyen at bnguyen@ee.washington.edu for more information!

CSE undergrads who will be interviewing for a full-time or internship position over the next year and who would benefit from a preview of the technical interview questions they will face (this should include almost all CSE ugrads!) should attend the CSE Technical Interview Coaching Event next Monday, October 24 in the Atrium.

This event features technical interviewers from Amazon, Boeing, Google, Isilon, Microsoft, Pariveda Solutions, Tableau Software and whitepages who will meet with two to four students at a time.  The interviewers will describe their technical interview process, give students a few sample questions and coach students on what they look for in answers.  The sessions will include sample programming questions, logic questions and puzzles. These experts will also provide examples of what they ask in actual technical interviews and how to successfully answer to land the job.

Students will have three individual sessions of 15 minutes each with three different company volunteers.

RSVP’s are necessary and easy to make.  Just use the link below to choose between sessions starting at 3:30 or 4:30 pm.  (Sessions last one hour and are comprised of three 15-20 minute individual coaching sessions.)

Space is limited –  RSVP now!  The RSVP deadline for this event is this Thursday, October, 20 at 7:00 am, so please don’t delay.

Please contact CSE Advisor Dave Rispoli (rispoli @ cs)  for any additional information on this event.

CSE Resume database: www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/afterlife/careers.html (top right link)

Companies Recruiting: www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/meetings/recruit-co-1112.html

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From Ed Lazowska

PLEASE get your resumes into the system and TURN OUT IN FORCE on
Thursday from 10-3.

We have had to expand to the Gates Commons – we will squeeze in 59
companies and still have had to turn some away.

Also, a note:  If you encounter students who are not UW Computer
Science or Computer Engineering majors, please tip one of us off –
this event is intended for *our* students and *our* affiliated
companies.

See you on Thursday!!
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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:42 PM
Subject: Margaret Wright, Friday at 2:30 in Kane 210
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, cycotic@u.washington.edu, eScience team <escience-team@u.washington.edu>, Escience_bbl <Escience_bbl@u.washington.edu>

Margaret is superb – worth an hour of your time for sure.

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MathAcrossCampus Lecture:    October 21, 2:30-3:30pm
Kane Hall 210

Reception to follow

Title:              Fast Times in Linear Programming:
Early Success, Revolutions, and Mysteries

Speaker: Margaret Wright, Courant Institute, New York University

Abstract:

Linear programming (LP), which isn’t really about programming, is a
simple-to-state mathematical problem of enormous practical importance. The
dramatic saga of LP solution methods began immediately after World War II
with unexpected practical success that continued for more than 30 years
despite theoretical reservations; next came two sweeping revolutions whose
effects are still widely misunderstood. This talk will describe
mathematical and computational issues from the history of LP, enlivened by
controversy and international politics, as well as some fascinating
remaining mysteries.

Short Bio of speaker:

Margaret H. Wright is Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
She received her B.S. (Mathematics) and M.S. and Ph.D. (Computer Science)
from Stanford University. Her research interests include optimization,
scientific computing, and real-world applications. Prior to joining NYU,
she worked at Bell Laboratories. She is a member of the National Academy
of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
National Academy of Sciences. During 1995-1996 she served as president of
the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).