CSE Undergrad News

The Computing Community Consortium has arranged the talks from the MIT150th Anniversary symposium in an easily digestible format.  Many ofthese are really excellent  Begin with Eric Lander’s, as I suggestedpreviously, but look at some of the others as well:
http://www.cra.org/ccc/mitvids.php

– Ed Lazowska

You are cordially invited to see what we have been up to this quarter! David

WHAT:   481m Home Networking Capstone Project Tour
DATE:   Wednesday, June 1, 2011
TIME:   3:30pm – 5:00pm
PLACE:  The Atrium
HOSTS:  Ratul Mahajan (MSR), David Wetherall, John Zahorjan, and Colin Dixon

The modern home is a hotbed of game consoles, TVs, smartphones, cameras, remotely controllable lights and locks, and many more networked computers. It is, in fact, one of the key computing environments of the future. But how will we write programs that run in the home? And what will they do?

Come and join MC Colin Dixon as he takes us on a tour of the home of the future as imagined and built by students in the 481m capstone. The tour will start at 3:30 and last for 30 mins, followed by unstructured time to interact with the teams and demos. See and be amazed by these projects:

-Who’s at my Door? Live feed and a record of the day from your front porch to your
phone or any screen in your house

-RoomSense, providing a user’s in-home location context for smarter home applications

-Intuihome, intuitive control of devices via gestures with 2D and 3D cameras

-Spooky Action at a Distance, a system for enabling remote connectivity
to the home, despite NATs and firewalls

-Networked Alarm, waking the user with lights and music and adjusting to calendar
events and traffic

-Network Usurper, transparently reconfigures the network to control data
flow and access to devices

We would like to thank Microsoft Research and Google for support, including equipment, that made this course possible.

David Wetherall
Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
http://djw.cs.washington.edu/

Hey everybody, this is your new internal relations ACM officer Tim Vega. Brace yourselves for email from me all of next year.

Please fill out this survey to nominate a faculty member for the ACM 2011 Teaching Award:

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/pimenm/135411

Thanks a lot!

Hello CSE,

The Center for Game Science is working on a many new games. So many of you have asked how you can be involved … WELL, here’s your chance!!! We need a pool of testers to provide feedback on all of our games in production, each build will require more testing. 🙂

Interested? It’s so EASY! If yes, please follow the instructions below to sign up for the CGSPLAY mailman distribution list.

Go to: http://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cgsplay

o Find Subscribing to Cgsplay (mid page)
o Add your email address and your name (states optional but would be nice to have as an identifier)
o Click Subscribe

What to expect once you are on the CGSPLAY mailing list: a project lead will reach out to the CGSPLAY list with date, time frame, project, number of people needed. You’ll need to respond accordingly. Further details will be sent to you once you’ve signed up. We promise it will be FUN!

Thank you in advance for your assistance. Questions, please let me know.

Cathy

P.S. CGS team, you are already subscribed to CGSPLAY. If you didn’t know…this is part of your job description!

Cathy Wickersham
Center for Game Science
Computer Science & Engineering
cathyw@cs.washington.edu
206 616-2660

Will Johnson, a senior majoring in Computer Science and in Mathematics, has been awarded the 2011 UW College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Medal for the Sciences, recognizing the most accomplished graduating student in the natural sciences.

Will has a remarkable record of accomplishment and recognition:  he recently won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; he was celebrated in the Washington State Senate and in the Seattle Times for being named a Putnam Fellow (for finishing among the top five students in the nation — from among 4,036 competitors — in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition); he was named the 2010 University of Washington Junior Medalist, recognizing the most accomplished student among UW’s roughly 7,000 juniors.  (No reason to go back further than 12 months …)

Today starts the registration period (May 2 – 22, 2011) for UW Commencement.  CSE students may attend both the UW Commencement ceremony and the CSE Graduation Celebration (or just one, whatever you prefer).

Registration is now open for ordering graduation regalia, parking, tickets for the UW Graduation Ceremony in Husky Stadium. You can also register for the CSE Graduation Celebration on the same form.

Go here to register:  http://www.washington.edu/graduation/

If you do not wish to order regalia, you can still participate in the CSE Graduation Celebration, but not the UW one.
Dress code for the CSE Graduation Celebration is business casual.

Meany Hall now requires that we distribute tickets for admission to the CSE event.  You can order them here:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/pim/132351

We will distribute tickets during finals week at the front office desk between 1:00-3:30pm. Shortly before Graduation on June 11, we will send you instructions about where to sit in Meany Hall and what to do.  🙂

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Some of you might be interested in a new “software team
formation/recruiting” tool called Group Talent. Link below to a blog post about it:

http://crashdev.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-weapon-in-war-for-talent.html

Hey all,

No more tech talks!  But this is probably the best week ever to be a CSE major! Here are the lowdown of events this week.

1.) Ugrad Research Night — Thursday May 19th — 430-730pm — EEB037/Atrium

This quarterly event is a great time to pick up a research position for the summer if you are still looking for something to do, pick up a project to work on next year, or start preparing for graduate school. 430-530pm will be a graduate school and research panel in EEB 037, while 530-730 will be a research poster session in the Atrium.  Light refreshments will be provided.

2.) CSE Spring BBQ — Friday May 20th — 400-730pm — Sylvan Grove

It’s the Department-Wide BBQ! It should be an awesome time with Music, Food, Drinks, Inflatables, Frisbee, Prof Pieing, and tons of Socializing.  Come celebrate the end of the year!  The alternate location will be the CSE Atrium and surrounding area if the torrential monsoons return (let’s hope not).

3.) ACMW Canoe Day — Saturday May 21st — 10:30am — Atrium —> Lake Washington!

If that wasn’t enough, then there is canoeing.  Possibly the funnest event of the year.  Meet at 1030am to walk over to the WAC, or meet us at the WAC at 1045am.  Bring a lunch, Frisbee, waterproof camera, and cash for the canoe rental! (~5-10$)  This should be a really great event to hang out with CSE people before we all head off for the summer.

Enjoy the sunshine!  =D

UW ACM

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