Hi all,
The 2011-2012 CSE study abroad application for our exchanges at ETH, KTH, and Saarland is now available at: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/exchanges.html. It will be linked from the new ugrad site once that is launched, too.
If you have any questions about the application or any of these exchanges, please let me know.
-Megan
A quick heads-up, for your calendar:
We will host a viewing of the 2nd of the 3 IBM Watson Jeopardy games, a week from Tuesday, on the 15th, starting at 7:00 p.m. and running until 8:15 p.m. We’ll Slingbox the HD television video onto the screen in the normal colloquium room, EE105. (Thanks to Aaron Timss for rigging this up.)
Oren Etzioni, Luke Zettlemoyer, Eric Horvitz (MSR), and some local folks from IBM will provide some technical background prior to the game itself, a brief analysis afterwards, and plentiful wisecracks during. (The game itself is 7:30-8:00.)
Like IBM’s assault on chess in 1997, this is a landmark accomplishment — win, lose, or draw.
There was a very nice NY Times Sunday Magazine article last June (in contrast to the lame-ass philosophical hand-wringing in today’s paper):
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/magazine/20Computer-t.html
Please join us. This should be fun and educational.
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From: Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:55 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] custodial staff shortage this week
To: cs-staff – Mailing List <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>, faculty – Mailing List <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads-general – Email Alias <cs-ugrads-general@cs.washington.edu>, cs-grads – Mailing List <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>
We are without one of four person custodial team this week. The supervisor is working to have staff from another building cover, but we might see less than perfect coverage ( in particular, the 5th floor and the lower level). At a minimum, the restrooms must be cleaned and stocked- if there are issues please contact me and I’ll work to have resolved.
Tracy Erbeck
Facilities Manager, CSE, University of Washington
206.543.9264 (office)
206.543.2969 (fax)
The Ugrad Advisors are hosting a small information session for prospective CSE students on Wednesday, 2/9 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:
Hi all,
If you haven’t looked at the Calendar we have ALOT of tech talks in the next few weeks, so here they are in one big reminder. But before that,
0.) WINTERFEST!!!!
This will be equally, if not more, exciting than Fallfest! There will be a better proportion of free food, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, video games, lots of board games, a dance floor, and a great atmosphere to hang out! Look for the theme on the posters soon to go up! If you have any other suggestions for activities or other suggestions contact an ACM officer (we have heard the call for Kinects, and we are working on it!).
Also, if anyone would like to volunteer to set up, take down, or run a table for fall fest send the acm officers a message and we’ll get back to you (their email is acm-officers at cs…) We’ll contact you closer to the event with more details.
And now the tech talks…
1.) Redfin Info Session
Redfin is a great new start up based right here in Seattle taking over the e-Real Estate busines. Their CEO is a great guy, these are great people! http://www.redfin.com/about/college-recruiting
2.)Google tech talk
Description: Have you ever imagined applying your education, research, and experience to benefit millions of people around the world? There are many opportunities for Google engineers to make immediate impact and work on real problems. Our engineers are also encouraged to make contributions to the computer science community through a variety of professional development activities, such as attending conferences, publishing papers, open source, and more. Come and hear local engineers Charlie Reis and Atul Adya briefly talk about how they have done this at Google. See details below. When: Wednesday, February 9, from 6-8 PM Where: 105 Sign up for this event by RSVP’ing here. (RSVPing helps us know how many people to order food for, but everyone is welcome!) Charlie will share his experience with research opportunities at Google, specifically on the Chrome team. He’ll talk about chances to write papers and serve on program committees, as well as how research at Google can differ from other labs, such as shipping experimental projects to millions of users. Charlie Reis is a Software Engineer on the Google Chrome team. He finished his PhD at UW CSE in 2009, working with Steve Gribble and Hank Levy. His research interests focus on improving the reliability and security of web browsers for running modern web applications. Atul will share his perspective on systems research at Google and it with his experience in other labs/product groups. In particular, he will discuss how research and publications in infrastructure systems happens at Google. He will also share his opinion on the Google culture and why Google continues to be exciting place for graduate students. Atul Adya is a Software Engineer at Google leading a team building a large-scale notifications system. Prior to Google, Atul worked at Microsoft Research (on a distributed file system called Farsite) and in Microsoft product groups (Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Live Mesh) in the areas of distributed systems, databases, file systems, object-relational systems and wireless systems. Earlier at the MIT Computer Science Laboratory, he worked on the Thor persistent object store in the areas of weak consistency, transactions, and object caching. Atul received his B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and his S.M. and PhD degrees with Prof. Barbara Liskov from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests span a broad range of systems including distributed systems, storage systems, databases, operating systems, and wireless systems. Please check out our job opportunities at www.google.com/students/eng and complete this form to receive announcements about future job opportunities, scholarships, and programs. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. We look forward to meeting you!
Jessica Einfeld University Programs Google Inc.
3.)Yelp info session
Yelp is an awesome mid-sized start up based out of downtown San Francisco. They specialize in local search, peer reviews, a great website, and mobile apps. Check them out at www.yelp.com or their careers page http://www.yelp.com/careers?jvi=oyXeVfwo,Job.
4.) VMWare Infosessios
Description: We can’t virtualize YOU, so consider joining our team today! VMware maintains a deep connection to its academic roots. We recognize that today’s students are tomorrow’s trailblazers and appreciate the opportunity to benefit from your fresh perspective while sharing our experience with you. VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven virtualization solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity. VMware accelerates an organization’s transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. Come hang out and get a download of VMware, FREE Food and Drinks!
VMware Campus Relations — jobs.vmware.com
5.) RIM Tech Talk
RIM=Research in Motion. They’re a well known company with lots of new ideas coming out! Check it out: http://www.rim.com/careers/students/
And then there is Winterfest, February 18th, 6-9pm.
Chris & UW ACM Officers
Typically I won’t post anything on this blog that isn’t directly CSE related, but this is an important topic that some of you may really need help with, so here you go.
Event: Money 101 – Credit Reports & Scores
When: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Where: Odegaard 220
Description: Your credit report summarizes your history of credit usage and present financial position. It provides lenders with an idea of how much risk they might have in lending money to you. Your credit history is reviewed and a score calculated that is used by lenders and banks to determine your potential approval and interest rates. Employers may also review your credit report as part of any hiring decision. Consequently it is important that you understand how credit reports and scores work.
The Ugrad Advisors would like to invite you to view and give feedback on the soon-to-be launched reorganization of the CSE Ugrad webpages (please note: this is just a simple reorg – not an entire redesign – and does not include the whole CSE web). While the rest of the CSE web is planning to transition sometime later this year, the Ugrad pages were in need of some serious help and we couldn’t wait any longer.
Where: CSE 002
When: Thursday, Feb 3 @ 3:30pm
Please join us this Thursday in the lab for some hands-on access to the new Ugrad pages – we want your constructive criticism!
Just a reminder…
Come and hear from three exciting venture-backed startup companies who are interested in talking to you!
Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Location: Atrium Time: 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Food will be provided
Apptio Inc: Join one of the most exciting, high tech, high growth companies in the greater Puget Sound Area! At Apptio, you have the opportunity to apply your passion for building winning products for Fortune 1000 customers using the latest Java technologies and engineering conventions in a SaaS business model. Apptio was founded in 2007, launched its innovative and revolutionary IT cost optimization solution in 2008, and is now pioneering a new market segment called Technology Business Management. The Apptio solution is a truly next generation in-memory data analytics system built upon an advanced compute grid infrastructure. We’re focused on helping our customers solve the big problems of running the business of IT and our innovative SaaS based solutions are currently leveraged in both North America and Europe by leading companies such as Cisco Systems, Facebook, Starbucks, Bank of America, Hilton Hotels, Boeing, Clorox, Swiss Re, Expedia and JP Morgan Chase. We’re fast moving, results oriented and passionate about our work. Join this proven executive and technology team for an exciting and challenging career opportunity with tremendous possibilities.
Hi all,
Next week we’re going to have an informational meeting for our departmental study abroad programs.
KTH, ETH, & Saarland Info Session
Friday, February 4th
3:30-4:30p.m.
CSE 303
Please send me a quick email RSVP if you plan to attend. If you can’t make it to the session but would like to be considered for these programs, let me know that by email as well.
Students who are interested studying abroad at these schools during the 2011-2012 academic year should definitely plan to attend, but the session is also appropriate for those of you who are thinking about study abroad in future years.
Professors Tom Anderson and Mike Ernst will be at the session to talk about ETH, KTH, and Saarland universities, and we hope to have students currently here on exchange from these schools attend for additional insight and to help answer your questions. Please note: This year was our first sending a student to Saarland, and we hope we will be able to continue the program, but I’m currently working with Saarland on this. I hope to have more details at the session on Friday.
Shortly after the meeting, the application for the CSE study abroad programs will go online at http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/exchanges.html.
Facebook still has plenty of Bagels, Coffee, and Juice to give away in the Atrium! They’ll be there for another hour! Go check it out, chat about facebook, drop off a resume, or just say hi.
Chris