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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] “The Facebook Class”
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
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I’ve been asked to write a short article on the current job market for computer science and computer engineering graduates.
If you have any data that would help me make the point that things are hot, would you please send it to me? I will not use your name, and you do not need to identify specific companies – I’m *not* asking you to violate any confidentiality that an employer may have requested. (Although it would be very helpful to know if the company was from this region or from another part of the country.)
“Stories” that would be helpful might include:
– An extraordinarily high salary
– An extraordinarily high signing bonus
– Multiple companies fawning over you
Please let me hear from you ASAP. Again, I will *not* violate your privacy/confidentiality. I would just like to take the opportunity to make the point that things are hot.
Contact Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
The capstone registration form is now open :
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/academics/capstone.htmlI’ve posted information below on the robotics capstone, every other course should have a link to previous course offerings. Most capstones require you to have completed at least CSE 332, and one or two 400 level courses as the goal is to “cap” your CSE experience. However, some faculty are more flexible than others. So you can always put your name down and then talk with the faculty as the course approaches.
First registration priority will go to students graduating. We’ll attempt to give everyone who fills out the survey their first or 2nd choice capstone. If there is still space available, we will open it during Junior registration for any students who did not register during this time period to add a capstone, or to take a 2nd capstone.
We’ll send results around June 10th. Add codes will be sent out during that quarter’s registration period.
CE Hardware Track Capstone:
CE Software Track Capstones:
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.
AMD is allocating a limited number of free passes (200 to be exact) for Seattle-area Computer Science and Engineering students. I’ve provided some background on the upcoming AMD Fusion Developer Summit below for your review. Also please see the special student registration code (see highlighted section).
AMD Delivers New Era of Computing at AMD Fusion Developer Summit.
AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) technology is rapidly redefining what is possible at every level of the computing experience. APUs give software developers the power to unleash their imaginations and access new revenue opportunities by creating futuristic, visually rich applications with no-compromise performance even on the small form factor devices users want.
The AMD Fusion Developer Summit (Fusion 11), June 13-16 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington, is the must-attend event in 2011 for expert hands-on training and l informative sessions for professional developers like you need to capitalize on the full capabilities of APU technology takes place at. Space is limited.
AMD’s next-generation APU technology delivers benefits that enable developers to push their innovations to never before possible levels of performance outside the world of supercomputers and data centers, while delivering new levels of efficiency.
APU technology offers technologists:
4x faster performance than the competition
500 gigaflop performance at never experienced before efficiency levels
Supercomputer-like performance never before possible on smaller form factors
True all-day battery life of up to 11 hours1
Video and graphics that are more life-like than ever
A dramatic reduction of up to 40 percent in total carbon emissions over the life of the APU2
The ability to preserve your expensive source code investment and is easier to code when combined with OpenCL™
“There is a sizable opportunity for programmers who can exploit heterogeneous architectures that perform a mix of parallel and serial computation. Such architectures make use of readily available industry languages to unleash the power of tightly linked CPUs and GPUs in blended designs like AMD’s accelerated processing unit (APU),” said Roger Kay, Founder and President, Endpoint Technologies.
Industry leaders from AMD, ARM, Corel, and Microsoft are coming to the AMD Fusion Developer Summit to share their latest innovations during the AFDS Keynotes.
In his keynote “Heterogeneous Parallelism at Microsoft” Herb Sutter, Microsoft Principal Architect of Native Languages, showcases upcoming innovations to bring access to increasingly heterogeneous compute resources directly into the world’s most popular native languages.
Jem Davies, ARM Fellow and Vice President of Technology, Media Processing Division, delivers a keynote about ARM’s long history of heterogeneous computing, its future strategy, and ARM’s support of standards.
The Summit opens and closes with keynotes by senior AMD tech leaders. AMD Corporate Fellow Phil Rogers explores the programmer’s guide to APUs, and Eric Demers, AMD Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Graphics, will deliver a keynote that chronicles the evolution of AMD’s graphics cores and discuss next-generation AMD graphics technology.
Training at AFDS includes more than 90 technical sessions, covering such topics as mitigation of legacy applications to heterogeneous architectures, simplified CPU-GPU logical data sharing, OpenCL™, multicore, and GPU accelerated databases.
Technology topics at AFDS include:
Developer Tools: This topic covers development tools ranging from compilers and debuggers to performance visualization tools. Sessions cover the state of the art in compiler technology (CPU and GPU), debugging and profiling OpenCL™, and automatic data movement.
Enterprise Computing: This topic features sessions that discuss using multicore technology to handle large data, showcase software being developed today utilizing multicore CPUs, and show early work of applying the data parallel capabilities of GPUs to databases.
High Performance Computing: This topic presents a sampling of portable and standards based heterogeneous computing. Come see innovative uses of GPUs, extreme optimizations, power efficient implementations, benchmarks, libraries, and real world applications in physics, chemistry, finance, and rendering.
Multimedia Processing: This topic features sessions on image processing, audio processing, video processing, telepresence, video quality enhancement, computer vision, transcoding, content recognition, image retrieval, multimedia algorithm optimization for parallel processing, codecs.
Professional Graphics & Visual Computing: This topic provides sessions focused on various areas of visual computing, including mixed-mode OpenGL/DX/OpenCL™ interoperability, and advanced rendering and compute techniques.
Programming Models: This topic showcases the state of the art in parallel programming models and techniques for heterogeneous platforms. Topics covered include: programming models for next generation GPU architectures and techniques for building domain specific languages on heterogeneous platforms.
Security: This track features sessions on password recovery and audit, encryption, and steganography detection.
User Interface and Media Experiences: This topic features sessions on gesture recognition, touch recognition, face recognition, UIs for new user experiences, video management, video playback, and Web user experiences.
In addition to the technical sessions there are seven Pre-Summit Tutorials (Monday, June 12, 2011) and hands-on labs.
For more information about AMD Fusion Developer Summit and to register, visit amd.com/afds. The first 200 students to register using the SDC200 code will be able to attend the event for free.
Think you got game? Compete for victory in challenges that test your creative and mental mettle at Google Games Seattle! Teams of five will go head to head in rigorous events: Geek Trivia, Lego Building, Puzzles, Coding Competition, and Game Blitz.
Find four friends (Computer Science background strongly recommended) and register here. Can’t find a team? Sign up as an individual and we’ll put you in a team with others. In addition to the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, Google will also be supplying free refreshments to all participants and prizes to our top competitors. Bring it on!
Google Games Seattle
Date: Saturday, May 14
Time: 10:00am to approximately 4:00pm
Location: Google Seattle (651 N. 34th Street, Seattle, 98103)
Registration Form:
https://spreadsheets7.google.com/viewform?hl=en&hl=en&formkey=dGNuSDNhODBjZUlIUFBNN1ZKTE0tUXc6MA#gid=0
Deadline to register: FRIDAY, MAY 6
FAQ
Q.Can we have less than five members on our team?
A. We strongly recommend having the maximum number of members – any less and you’ll lose your competitive edge.
Q. Do you have to be a current student to participate?
A. Yes, you must be currently enrolled at the University of Washington to participate.
Q. Can we replace a member before the start of the event?
A. Sure. Just let us know (googlegames@google.com) about the new team member and who is being replaced.
Q. Should our team wear uniforms?
A. Show your team’s spirit however you choose: uniforms, team dance, team flag or poster, cheer, fight song, etc. A prize will be awarded to the team with the most spirit. Check out past Google Games here and here for inspiration.
Q. Will transportation be provided?
A. No, you will have to provide your own transportation. Use Metro Transit’s TripPlanner (bus #31 runs from the U District to Fremont) or drive – parking information to come!
Q. Will food be provided?
A. We will be providing lunch, snacks and drinks. If you have any dietary restrictions, please note this in the form and we will be sure to accommodate you.
Please direct other questions to googlegames@google.com.
We are students in the business school working on a consulting project with Microsoft. We are interested in gathering your feedback regarding your level of understanding and use of cloud computing in regards to application development. The survey should not take more than 10 minutes of your time. We really appreciate your assistance with our project!
http://washington.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_77zNc43R8DOnluQ
BS/MS (5th year masters) info session May 12th, 330pm in room 305
All current CSE Majors, if you are interested in the Combined BS/MS program,
there will be an information session in room 305 of the Allen Center on
Thursday May. 12th from 330-430.
Here is a link to the program website for additional information:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/ugrad/current/bsms/
The Faculty Advisor, Professor Ernst, and CSE advisors will be there to tell you
more about the program and answer questions.
-Mary Pimenova
The Ugrad Advisors are hosting a small information session for prospective CSE students on Wednesday 5/4 from 3:30 to 4:30 in CSE 305.
We are looking for a CSE student or two who would be available to attend the session, briefly speak about their experiences in the department and to answer questions from the students/parents.
If you are interested please email ugrad-advisor@cs.washington.edu with the following information:
Hey CSE people,
The submissions are in!!! Thank you designers for your awesome, clever designs! Please fill out this T-Shirt Preorder form ASAP
https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/stever4/132445
by at the absolute latest, 11:59pm, Wednesday, May 4th! We need enough time to get the T-Shirts ordered by the BBQ so we can introduce the T-Shirts in a high profile environment (and sell the extras!). Please only indicate T-Shirts you would intend to buy if the shirt got printed! Not all T-Shirts are guaranteed to print (we will likely drop the bottom 1-4 shirts if interest is not high enough to justify printing), but we will contact you if yours doesn’t make the cut and solicit a final shirt tally. T-Shirts may change slightly for better printing, but they will be more or less unchanged in concept. Payment will be due before picking up the shirt, the cost will be no more than 15$ a shirt, we will contact Preordering people individually about those details.
Do fill out this survey! Do it now!
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