CSE Undergrad News

Hi all,

One more event happening this week: ACM Interview Prep is tonight at 5:30pm. The location is TBD, but it will most likely be in the EEB basement. We will send out an email later today with the exact room number.

Hope to see you there,

ACM

Hello CSE students!

We want to apologize for the long waits this past quarter during dropins. The 1000+ current majors and 1000+ prospective students have really hit us hard. On the upside, things should be getting better very soon!

Jenifer Hiigli is transitioning back from leave so she and Owen (her 4 month old sidekick) will be starting to see students some and responding to email.

Additionally, we recently hired Lacey Schmidt as another professional staff advisor who will start working with prospective students this quarter and then add current students later next quarter.

With two additional staff members we hope that the long lines will dissipate soon.

Maggie, Chloe, Raven and I are also still around to help, but Raven is mostly working on Diversity and Outreach projects now and seeing fewer students.

Thank you for hanging in there with us during the fall quarter madness, hopefully things will be better from here on out.

CSE Advising

Are you interested in pursuing a PhD in computer science? Please join us today for a discussion with CSE alum and current UCSD PhD student Alex Sanchez-Stern! In comparison to our previous PhD info sessions, this will provide additional/deeper information and will be a more informal conversation. We hope to see you there! Snacks will be provided.

Monday Nov. 13th,  3:30 – 4:30pm

CSE 305

Alex Sanchez-Stern graduated from University of Washington in 2015 with his Bachelors of Computer Science and in 2016 with his Masters of Computer Science, and is currently pursuing a PhD at UCSD in San Diego. At the University of Washington he worked on research in numerical software, and he is currently researching numerical program debugging and proof synthesis. He’ll be talking about his two current projects, Herbgrind, a tool for identifying root causes of floating point error, and Proverbot9001, a system for generating program correctness proofs using machine learning. Both projects are in collaboration with UW researchers. He’ll also talk about the process of pursuing a PhD, and the benefits of graduate school.

ACM-W is hosting a Study Hall in CSE 403 today from 10:30am – 2:30pm. Join us for tea, bagels, and a focused work environment as we finish up the quarter and prepare for finals. Work independently or bring study buddies. All are welcome!

Hi all,

Hope you had a good weekend. One more full week until Thanksgiving! Events happening this week are listed below:

• Monday, 11/13 – Okta tech talk, 6 pm, EE125
• Tuesday, 11/14 – Google office hours, 11:30am-1:30 pm, 2^nd floor landing
• Tuesday, 11/14 – Karat tech talk, 6 pm, EE125

Sincerely,

ACM

CSE 490E: Ethics, Society, and Computers
Winter 2018

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Chief explorer: Jared Moore
Email: jlcmoore@cs.washington.edu
Office Hours: By appointment only

CSE 490E syllabus

Note: Graded credit/no credit so will not apply to CSE senior electives, senior electives must be graded

Description:
This course will explore computing technologies as they pertain to society along ethical dimensions. In particular, it will examine what it means to be an ethical computer scientist and the societal implications of computer technology. Each week, we’ll read about a different topic or case study (e.g. privacy) and discuss the related quandaries in class. This course will afford a moment to look up from the minutia of computer science – algorithmic complexity, fitting models, appropriate use of MVC, etc. – to examine the impact of technology on society at large.

Objectives:This course will provide a space and the impetus for exploration of ethical issues in computer science. The point of this class is not for the dictation of what is ethical (or the contrary), but rather for students to play a role in critically exploring technology. At the end of this course, students will have gained a broader conception of dilemmas in current computing technologies and will have a stronger framework with which to develop their own ethical responsibilities.

Are you interested in pursuing a PhD in computer science? Please join us for a discussion with CSE alum and current UCSD PhD student Alex Sanchez-Stern! In comparison to our previous PhD info sessions, this will provide additional/deeper information and will be a more informal conversation. We hope to see you there! Snacks will be provided.

Monday Nov. 13th,  3:30 – 4:30pm

CSE 305

Alex Sanchez-Stern graduated from University of Washington in 2015 with his Bachelors of Computer Science and in 2016 with his Masters of Computer Science, and is currently pursuing a PhD at UCSD in San Diego. At the University of Washington he worked on research in numerical software, and he is currently researching numerical program debugging and proof synthesis. He’ll be talking about his two current projects, Herbgrind, a tool for identifying root causes of floating point error, and Proverbot9001, a system for generating program correctness proofs using machine learning. Both projects are in collaboration with UW researchers. He’ll also talk about the process of pursuing a PhD, and the benefits of graduate school.

We are offering a new Robotics course, CSE 490R this winter quarter, see below for details.

“This course provides a practical introduction to techniques in
robotics, primarily related to planning, control, perception and more
recent learning methods including deep learning. The course will
involve a lab component where students will work in small teams to
implement multiple assignments on a rally car platform.”

Prerequisites:
CSE 332: Data Structures and Parallelism

Recommended –
CSE 312: Foundations of Computing II
Math 308: Matrix Algebra

Optional –
473: Intro to AI

First, we saw about 87 students today, with three full time advisors.  We are beyond peak capacity right now and apologize sincerely for the long waits at dropins.  Here are a few registration notes that might be of interest.  On another note, we have some advising reinforcements coming online starting next week, so hopefully we can start assisting you faster in the near future.  More on that later.

REGISTRATION NOTES

1. The data science seminar for seniors, ChemE 599 is apparently being re-named to a different course number. Once they have it posted, they will alert our advising team and we will email all the senior students coded as data science to let them know how to register.  It will be offered in winter, so you don’t need to worry.  Just be patient and wait at this point.
2. Closed courses. We understand that there are a lot of closed courses already.  Here is what you need to do.
   • Try not to panic!!!
   • Sign up on the UW Notify system so you can learn if people drop
   • Understand that asking your friends to hoard courses for you is not helpful and not fair, please don’t do that
   • We will continue to monitor closed courses and attempt to add space when possible. Sometimes it means searching for new rooms, so these things take time.
   • On November 16th we’ll open the overload request form, that is a form you can fill out if you are still trying to get into a full CSE course.  We will try to give out space at that time based on priority such as graduating students, etc
   • We are going to do the absolute best we can to get everyone into courses.  We are growing the program and still struggling to get the size of courses at the right levels, so please be patient
   • Last May when students registered for fall they panicked as well, but by the start of the quarter, check out the course totals, most have room, so we are hopeful.
3. We’ve been hearing instances (5 now total and counting) of students who were dropped from the major for no known reason.  If you can’t register for an open CSE course, please check your major, if your major is not listed as Computer Science or Computer Engineering, send an email to ugrad-advisor@cs.uw.edu with your name, student number and what your  major is, and what it should be, and we’ll investigate
4. If you have a specialized registration issue and email ugrad-advisor about it, you are more likely to have your questions answered quickly if you include all the relevant information including your student number, full name and sln’s of courses in question.  At this point however we are NOT going to be overloading courses.
5. If you want to take a 500 level course as an undergraduate, this is what you do:
   
   •  If you are part of the 5th year masters program already, you should go to this form and submit your request.
   • If you are an undergraduate CSE Major without being admitted to the 5th year masters program, please email the instructor for permission. Once permission has been granted, forward to ugrad-advisor@cs.uw.edu with your name, student number, sln’s of all lecture/sections and a copy of the approval email
   • These courses are generally 400’s on steroids, you should not pursue this option lightly on a whim.

Thank you!

~CSE Advising

Hello everybody!

Thank you to those who RSVPed already! The Computer Science & Engineering Student Advisory Council (CSE SAC) is excited to start hearing what you have to say and we hope you’re excited (for free burritos and) to share your stories. It’s not too late if you still want to attend our first Discussion Forum of the year!

The event will take place in the Gates Commons (this is a location change from our previous advertisements). Doors open at 5:00 PM and we plan on finishing around 6:00 PM.  Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,

Geoffrey Wukelic (Vice Chair)