CSE Undergrad News

Hello,

We are offering the LabVIEW training class again this Summer Quarter. Please visit the online registration if you are interested:

Registration:

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jmreina/136457

Syllabus:

http://www.seattletm.com/mytmContent/uwSum11_syllabus.pdf

Location and Time:

The lectures will take place in Sieg 232 on Mondays from 2:30pm-3:50pm. Lectures start the first week of the quarter (6/20). Enrollment is 45 seats. Lab sessions will be held Wednesdays from 2:30pm-3:50pm also in Sieg232.

Summary:

Nine Week Introductory LabVIEW course. Experience with data acquisition will be provided. CLAD certification exam offered during finals week after satisfactory completion of course. Special topic lectures will be provided at request.

Description:

This course will take you through the fundamentals of the LabVIEW environment in preparation to use it as a powerful T&M tool. Each week will have one 1.5 hr lecture and a follow-up homework assignment afterward to re-emphasize the lecture material.

At the end of the sessions, anyone who has completed eight or more sessions with satisfactory homework grades will be eligible to take the NI CLAD certification test. This test is normally $300, but NI is offering it for free given satisfactory completion of the course. Additionally, NI has been gracious enough to give top-performing students their own personal ‘NI MyDAQ’ for completion of this course and successful completion of the CLAD test.

Thanks,
Justin Reina
justinmreina@gmail.com

UW Electrical Engineering
(425)760-7291

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Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] elevator testing Friday, June 10
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From: James Fogarty <jfogarty@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:24 AM
Subject: HCI Poster Session – Thursday @ 10:30 in Atrium

Please join us this Thursday from 10:30 to 12:00 in CSE’s Microsoft Atrium.

Students will be proudly presenting 10 exciting projects from this quarter’s offering of CSE 440 : Introduction to HCI.  In just 10 weeks, they have brainstormed project ideas, observed people to understand their actual needs, iteratively refined their ideas based on end-user feedback, and constructed video and interactive prototypes to convey their designs.

You can see the project websites here:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse440/11sp/projects/

EnergeTech – Save Power.  Save Money.
ezMeter – Easier Parking.
HealthMate – Get Moving.
HomeSense – Common Sense for Your Home.
Kibisis – Mobile Payment for Friends.
LookUp – Language Learning When You Need It.
Memedicine – Remember Your Health.
NutriShop – Shop Healthier.
Sociall – Meet People.
Virtuoso – Enhanced Sheet Music.

Come Thursday to see the posters and talk with the teams!

James

—
James A. Fogarty, Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jfogarty/

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From: Adrienne Fairhall <fairhall@u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:07 PM
Subject: Computational Neuroscience program info/discussion

Dear all,

please join us in Guggenheim 415L  at 12.30 on June 9 for pizza, and
an opportunity to discuss the new Computational Neuroscience program.
There is both an undergrad and a graduate component, but we will be
focusing mostly on the undergrad part. We’ll lay out our proposed
scheme and will be happy to get feedback on what you’d be interested
to see in such a program. Please forward this on to other students
that you think might be interested.

If you could, do RSVP if you think you are likely to be joining so we
can calibrate food quantities.

Thanks!

Adrienne

CSE Students,

Congratulations on a school year done! Bring on that last round of finals (for us Seniors anyhow)!

The new and old ACM officers are holding a set of office hours next week to tie up all the loose ends for this school year.  The times are

Tuesday June 7th,  1-3pm, Lab 002

Wednesday June 8th,  1-3pm, Lab 002

Thursday June 9th,  1-3pm, Lab 002

And the issues we will be dealing with are:

1.) T-Shirts

We ordered a ton of “0xdeadbeef” and a few pixalated “CSE” T-shirts but didn’t get around to selling them at the BBQ.  If you indicated interest for these particular shirts on the preorder survey in May then reply and cc acm-officers@cs to this email and give us the size you indicated and we will set that one aside.  New T-Shirts will cost 15$ and Old T-Shirts will cost 10$.

2.) Coke Closet Tabs

Yes, it’s official (like 5 months later).  The coke closet had a horrible, sudden, painful death early winter quarter. Anyway, if you would like a refund on your tab we will have that available at these office hours.  Note if you do not collect your tab it will automatically be donated to the seed of the Coke Closet next year.

3.) Join the ACM (officially or unofficially)

Whether it’s the national organization or the UWACM, we will have membership forms with us.  We will be moving some of our exclusive announcements to a member list next year that we don’t need to announce to all undergraduates. Sooooo if you don’t want to be out of the loop on a few announcements next year then it would be a good time to join.  Don’t worry, general ugrad announcements for all important events, tech talks, fests won’t be affected.

If none of the times work send the officers a message and we will make something work out monday-thursday (we are out friday).

Happy graduation, end of the year, and summer!

Farewell,

Chris Raastad

Departing ACM SPAMbot to be replaced by Tim Vega…

This year’s projects in the multi-disciplinary CSE481K – Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments will be giving presentations in the Gates Commons from 5:00 to 6:30 in the Gates Commons.  You are welcome to join us.

WHAT:   CSE481K Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments Project Presentations
DATE:   Wednesday, June 1, 2011
TIME:   5:00pm – 6:30pm
PLACE:  Gates Commons (6th floor), Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, UW Campus
http://www.washington.edu/maps/?l=CSE
http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/maps.html
HOSTS:  Gaetano Borriello (CSE), Ruth Anderson (CSE), Beth Kolko (HCDE), Rohit Chaudhri (CSE)

Smartphones are becoming and important tool in helping under-served populations improve their healthcare, citizen groups increase their reach, small entrepreneurs improve their businesses, and much more.  Come and see how six projects – all connected to real customers – are tackling some interesting problems for which existing commercial products are inadequate, inflexible, or just too expensive.

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From: GIAN BRUNO <gbruno@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:36 PM
Subject: FW: New Summer HCDE Course – UX for Mobile

We have opened about 14 spaces in the Robotics capstone. The add code has been removed (even if it looks like it hasn’t been)

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                        ROBOTICS CAPSTONE                                                                                                                                   



CSE 481 Robotics Capstone
 The Humanoid Robot Imitation Learning Challenge
 Autumn 2011
 
Course description:
 Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to program a humanoid robot to imitate human actions 

and learn new skills from human   demonstration using video from a Kinect RGB+depth camera. 

Students will   work in groups to tackle the various sub-problems of human motion 

capture from video, control of the humanoid robot, and application of   probabilistic

 reasoning and machine learning to the problem of learning   from human demonstration.
Pre reqs: 
CSE 481  Capstone Software Design (5, max. 15) 
Students  work in teams to design and implement a software project involving 
 multiple areas of the CSE curriculum. Emphasis is placed on the  development 
process itself, rather than on the product. 
Prerequisite:  CSE 331 or CSE 341; CSE 326 or CSE 332; CSE 351 or CSE 378; substantial  programming experience such as CSE 451 or CSE 457.

FYI, we have released CSE 490Z, the Algorithmic Game Theory course for registration. There are about 20 spaces available right now. Please see the course description for more information. The add code has been removed (even if it looks like it’s still on there, it is not restricted)

20665 Z  5       TTh    1200-120   EEB  042      KARLIN,ANNA R.                       0/  30                      
                        ALGORITHMIC GAME THEORY

http://www.washington.edu/students/icd/S/cse/490karlin.html

Prereq: CSE 312

New (theoretically-oriented) Capstone Course for Fall 2011: Algorithmic Game Theory

In this course, we will use the tools of game theory to understand the incentive structure and strategic behavior of players in the brave new world we live in. We will study the foundations of the field known as algorithmic game theory, which lies at the intersection of game theory, economics and computer science, and learn about its applicability to the strategic and technological issues that arise in electronic commerce and in resource allocation in the Internet.

The theory we develop will help us address questions such as: What game theoretic ideas underlie companies like Facebook, Google, yelp, eBay, etc? How can you make the most money selling your used textbooks on eBay? What are the economics of email spam? What do game theory and the Paris subway have to do with Internet routing? How does Google find what you’re looking for and how do they make money doing so?