CSE Undergrad News

Palantir Info Session, Monday(TODAY) Oct. 17 6:00pm EEB125
Palantir is revolutionizing the way financial and governmental analysts are interacting with massive datasets. They offer platforms for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing the world’s information. The platforms support many kinds of data including structured, unstructured, relational, temporal, and geospatial. Furthermore, their platforms are built for real analysis with a focus on security, scalability, ease of use, and collaboration. Come see a live demo of how their software works to tackle hard, important, and globally relevant problems.

VMWare Tech Talk, Tuesday Oct. 18 4:30pm-5:30pm EEB303
VMware develops virtualization software that lets users run multiple operating systems on a single physical machine. One feature of VMs saving the state of running “virtual machine” and loading that state in the future. However, loading a saved VM can be time-consuming because the state, including a large memory image, must be fetched from persistent storage. This talk will present an improved technique for restoring saved VMs using working set estimation.

Plus, hear from UW Alum, Jehad Affoneh, on his recent experience in job hunting, making the tough decision, including his tips on the best approach, and what his experience has been like working in a software company the past few months.

Yelp Info Session, Tuesday Oct. 18 6:00pm-7:00pm EEB125
Yelp is an online urban city guide that helps people find cool places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play, based on the opinions of its users. Yelp is a fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what’s great — and not so great — in your world.

Industrial Affiliates Recruiting Fair, Thursday Oct. 20 10:00am-3:00pm Atrium
UW CSE has relationships with tons of software companies looking for all sorts of students. Come out this Thursday to get your resume around and rub elbows with recruiters.

Intel Career Night, Thursday Oct. 20 6:00pm-7:00pm EEB125
Find out how you can be part of Moore’s Law this Thursday. The Software Solutions Group, Microprocessor Development Group, Visual and Parallel Computing Group, and the PC Client Group will all have representatives present. Please bring your resume.

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Job offers
To: Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>

I understand that some of you are getting pressured by two week
deadlines on job offers.  Please let Kay Beck-Benton know of specific
situations.  We attempt to enforce a more reasonable policy, stated
here:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/affiliates/employerpolicy.html

We are happy to remind companies of this policy.

Note that there is a flip side to the coin:  in fairness to the
companies, and to your fellow students, it’s important to deal in a
high integrity manner with all companies, and to make your decision as
quickly as possible.
____________________

CodeSprint started yesterday at noon and runs until Wed Oct 12. Apply to 50 companies simultaneously by solving a single set of technical challenge.
http://codesprint.interviewstreet.com/recruit/challenges/

Microsoft Info Session today 6p-7p EEB125. Come learn about technical opportunities at Microsoft, grab free food, and enter yourself for a chance to win a XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle and other prizes.

Qualcomm Info Session Wed Oct 12 6pm EEB125. Learn about internship and new grad positions, snag some grub, and stay for the giveaways and raffle.

For those of you without much work experience, this could be a great project for you to use to get move involved.

From: Daniel MT <damt@uw.edu>

I’m one of the officers of the UW-One Laptop Per Child student
organization. We are also part of the Engineers Without Borders UW
Chapter and we truly believe your students could benefit from our
activities, so we were wondering if you could please forward the
following message to your students mailing list.

Thanks in advance.

We are the One Laptop per Child group at the University of Washington.
Our group develops apps for the XO laptop, a simple computer distributed
to schoolchildren in the developing world.  These laptops foster
self-empowered learning and are supplied by the One Laptop per Child
Association.  Our work helps increase the educational, social, and
practical value of these laptops by developing new applications for
them.

Currently we are recruiting for new members. All students regardless of
background or programming experience are welcome to join us. There are
many opportunities available in our group:  visual user-interface
design, application design, learn how to program in Python, improving
programming skills, leadership possibilities, making new friends and
many more!  We’ve already made a Checkers game app, and we are working
on a Geography quiz app.  The next application we make could be your
idea!

On every Monday at 5:30 pm, we are meeting at the Electrical
Engineering Building, room 026. Our first few meetings will have
everyone participating in making a simple little app to get everyone
comfortable and friendly.  People interested in developing will be able
to learn Python from scratch (CSE 142 experience recommended).  People
interested in design will get to practice the process of user-centered
UI design and development.  After the ramp-up period, we’ll start
tackling the real applications we want develop for the year!

See you next Monday 😉

students.washington.edu/olpc

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From: Magdalena Balazinska <magda@cs.washington.edu>

Research Opportunity

We have a research opportunity for an undergraduate interested in
getting involved in research for at least 2 quarters. The goal of the
project is to experiment with real scientific workloads on a variety
of parallel data processing engines. Pre-requisite is a good grade in
344 (or 444) and familiarity with Linux.

If you are interested, please send your resume and transcript to Prof.
Magda Balazinska magda@cs.washington.edu.

thanks,
magda

From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:02 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Facebook Hackathon

A reminder about the upcoming Facebook Hackathon.  This has been a
hugely popular event on other campuses.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154824111276660

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:25 AM
Subject: UW CSE entrepreneurship

I gave a talk in the Software Entrepreneurship course on Thursday
evening.  I’ve put a small subset of my slides up on the web: a couple
of intro slides, and an overview of UW CSE entrepreneurial impact.

http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/Lazowska.Entrepreneurship.2011.pdf