CSE Undergrad News

This is just a reminder that holding spaces for other students and writing scripts to get into courses is strictly forbidden by UW policy.  We are investigating several cases where we think this might have happened. If we find out that you have registered for a course in this manner, your name will be forwarded on to the registrar’s office for disciplinary action.  Please play by the rules so we can all get along folks.

Some capstone space has been released (CSE 482) and we’ll be releasing more capstone space in the next hour or more, including NLP and VR capstone if there is space available, you should receive a notify notification.

Are you looking for a cup of coffee or tea to get you through a busy day? Do you want to meet new people in CSE? Come join us Tuesday the 26th in the CSE1 Atrium between 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM for a relaxing time drinking your beverage of choice, snacking on cookies, and unwinding with your peers. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be provided! The event is organized by SAC, ACM, ACM-W, and Q++.

Hey, CSE undergrads! We have two talks this week to help you prepare for Life, Career, and Happiness After the Allen School! These talks should be entertaining and enlightening:

TOMORROW: Tuesday Feb 26, 5:30-6:30pm:
Git Out The Vote: Coding For Politics
Presented by Krista Davis, Allen School alum, former Google employee, political campaign worker, and Chief Architect & Founder of Groundbase.
Krista will provide insights from her career in the tech industry, on a major political campaign, and creating a startup for the political world. This talk is good for anyone interested in politics, non-traditional careers in CS, startups, and using your career to pursue your passions and values!
Johnson 102. 

WEDNESDAY Feb 27, 5:30-6:30pm:
Being Your Own Advocate in the Professional World.
Kasey Champion, UW Alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer.
Come learn from from Kasey how to advance professionally and get what you want out of your career by effectively advocating for yourself. This is a crucial skill for anyone — from seniors preparing for full-time jobs, or new students learning to navigate the UW.
CSE2 / Gates Center / The New Building room 271

March 5: What You Really Need to Know in the First 5 Years of Your Career
Kasey Champion, UW alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer, and Kim Nguyen, Allen School Career Advisor
Johnson 102. 

TOMORROW! Tuesday, Feb 19, 5:30-6:30pm
What a Senior PM Wishes Junior Developers Knew About Communication
Guest speaker: Herman Forrest, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
Come learn useful strategies for collaborating at your future workplace! Your technical skills will only take you so far — to be a successful professional, you need to be an effective team member. Learn from an experienced Program Manager at Microsoft how to communicate your ideas, give and receive feedback, ask questions, and work with others. This talk should be useful for all students: new to CSE and beginning group projects, looking forward to a summer internship, or ready to start a full-time position soon.
Johnson 102. 

If you are still looking for a 400 level capstone course for spring quarter, consider taking CSE 482B.  This course meets the UW diversity general education requirement.  It’s also 5 credits and has some really interesting projects.  While 331 is a listed prereq, we can waive that course.  The preferred prereqs are CSE 332 and significant programming experience.

Students will work on a group project that uses Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to address global needs with an emphasis on developing countries. While ICTs are having an enormous impact on livelihoods worldwide, deployment environments vary dramatically based on available infrastructure and technologies accessible to people. Areas of projects could include: health information systems, data collection technologies, applications for basic mobile phones, user interface design for low literate populations, behavior change communication, voice based social networks, community cellular networks, open source projects for global good, low-cost smartphones, satellite image analysis or mobile financial services targeting domains including health, education, agriculture, finance, and livelihood.

A list of potential Capstone projects,  and be found at: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse490c/18au/lectures/Lecture30.pdf

———- Forwarded message ———
From: Ed Lazowska lazowska@cs.washington.edu
Date: Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 12:13 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Gates Center dedication events – PLEASE READ!

Members of the Allen School,

Thursday February 28th, from 1:00-4:00 is the formal dedication event for the Bill & Melinda Gates Center. This event is donor-focused, invitation-only (due to the limited capacity of even our spiffy new 4th floor Event Center). There will be a program in the Event Center from 1:30-2:15. Then there will be both escorted and self-guided tours of the building and various labs from 2:15-4:00.

IMPORTANT: All of the card-key doors will be unlocked during the tours. If you’re a resident of the Gates Center, DO NOT leave valuables exposed during this period – wallets, laptops, etc. I doubt our donors want your wallet – quite the opposite! But random people may wander into the building, and we will have no way to restrict their access to internal spaces.

ALSO IMPORTANT: As you always do, please have a smile on your face and welcome people into your space. We had a “preview event” for a subset of donors a month ago, and Dave Cutler was thrilled to see the Dave Cutler lab full of students, and to have one student recognize him and thank him. That sort of thing goes a LONG way!

Friday from 2:00-5:00 is an Open House targeting regional alums, people from across the campus, and members of the Allen School. (All of you who are not actually doing demos are encouraged to take advantage of the Open House!) There will again be both escorted and self-guided tours of the building and various labs, and again all of the card-key doors will be unlocked. The Open House will be publicized pretty widely on campus, so please be particularly alert – “if you see something, say something.” (Don’t call me – I’m a wimp. Call Tracy!)

The Microsoft Cafe is supposed to begin operation by Thursday – it should be up and running for the dedication and thereafter.

Finally, a plea to all occupants of the Gates Center: Please do everything you can to keep the place looking great for our donors and guests.

THANKS!

Ed Lazowska

Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering

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ACM is hosting a Meet a Grad Student mixer on Tuesday, February 26th from 4:00 – 5:30pm in CSE 305 to introduce UW CSE undergraduates to CSE graduate students. This is a chance to learn more about what it’s like to pursue a PhD in Computer Science, and to gain insight from graduate students’ personal experiences with applying to and preparing for PhD programs.

The mixer will begin with brief introductions of each graduate student so the undergraduates can become familiar with everyone present. Then, undergraduates will break up into groups each headed by a graduate student where they will be free to ask questions and discuss anything they would like. Brownies will be provided as a light snack for those who attend!

Please sign up if you are an undergraduate student interested in attending our event:

https://goo.gl/forms/gEXzGodOekmoer7h1

———- Forwarded message ———
From: Richard Ladner <ladner@cs.washington.edu>

Dear Allen School Students,

UW Allen School is sponsoring Study Away Silicon Valley (UW-SASV) to be held the week of May 20 -24, 2019. Organized by Teach Access, students will visit companies such as Apple, Oath, Google, and Facebook to meet their accessibility teams and participate in accessibility related projects.  The trip is fully funded by the UW Allen School and Teach Access.   Undergraduate students earn one credit of 499 by preparing a reflective report on their activities.  The application is open to undergraduate, fifth-year, and  graduate students enrolled in the Allen School. 

To learn more about the program last year please visit the 2018 SASV Recap web page.

To apply, please go to the Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/VEWfWUBy8RKry4s13

The group size is limited to five students who have a strong interest in learning about what tech companies are doing to make their products and services accessible to people with disabilities. 

The application deadline is February 24, 2019.

If you have any questions or concerns please let me know by e-mail.
Richard E. LadnerProfessor Emeritus

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Washington

Some of you have noticed issues in the 484 registration with the size of the lecture and sections. We are aware of the issues and working to address them. We hope to have an additional section of both 484 and 452 released with in the next day or two.

Hey, CSE undergrads! Prepare for your future, Tuesdays this winter! We’ve coordinated these talks on Life, Career, and Happiness After the Allen School to give you valuable advice as you prepare for life after college. 

Starting now!! Tuesday, Feb 19, 5:30-6:30pm
What a Senior PM Wishes Junior Developers Knew About Communication
Guest speaker: Herman Forrest, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
Come learn useful strategies for collaborating at your future workplace! Your technical skills will only take you so far — to be a successful professional, you need to be an effective team member. Learn from an experienced Program Manager at Microsoft how to communicate your ideas, give and receive feedback, ask questions, and work with others. This talk should be useful for all students: new to CSE and beginning group projects, looking forward to a summer internship, or ready to start a full-time position soon.
Johnson 102. 

RESCHEDULED: Tuesday Feb 26: Git Out The Vote: Coding For Politics
Krista Davis, Allen School alum, former Google employee, political campaign worker, and Chief Architect & Founder of Groundbase
Johnson 102. 

RESCHEDULED: Wednesday Feb 27: Being Your Own Advocate in the Professional World.
Kasey Champion, UW Alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer
LOCATION TBD!

March 5: What You Really Need to Know in the First 5 Years of Your Career
Kasey Champion, UW alum, tech professional, and Allen School lecturer, and Kim Nguyen, Allen School Career Advisor 
Johnson 102.