Hello CSE students!
A quick reminder that we need everyone to add Research for Pay and any Internships that you do to your MyCSE account. We have to track these things and it’s a huge help when our 1000+ students add it on their own, thank you in advance!
If you have paid research that you did not add in the past, you can email me Crystal (ceney@cs.uw.edu) the following:
Your name:
Your Student number:
Title of your research (you can make this up)
Hours per week worked:
Faculty person you worked with in CSE:
July 24, 2017
Hello UW Students,
We’re looking for students to participate in a product research study with the Visual Studio IDE team over at Microsoft! In particular, we’re recruiting undergraduates (preferably sophomores or juniors) with some coding experience (you’ve taken at least an introduction to programming course) and little to no experience with Visual Studio to help us improve the onboarding and getting started experience for customers new to Visual Studio.
If you’re interested, you should be available for one of the following days below. We ask that you’re able to spend 2 hours with us on the Microsoft campus and reserve time on either end to commute over to the Microsoft campus in Redmond (which is easily accessible via the 542 bus from the UW campus).
- Thursday 7/27
- Thursday 8/10
- Thursday 8/17
The first step is to email me (Cathy à cathys@microsoft.com) to let me know you’re interested and available for one of the listed days. If you meet the study criteria, an user experience recruiter will contact you to schedule the day/time that works best for you and share all the exact details with you.
This is a great opportunity to see how we do product research at Microsoft for developer tools. As a thank you for your time and participation, you will receive a generous gratuity! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to me.
Thank you!
Cathy Sullivan
Senior Program Manager
Microsoft Visual Studio
cathys@microsoft.com
July 14, 2017
A little background from the team:
We’re a 70-person team of UW Engineers, designing, building, and competing with formula style race cars. We’ve been around for 28 years now, and take pride in our history of racing. In years past, we’ve built two cars, one combustion and one electric.
Next year is a first – we’re building one car, and it will be an electric vehicle! As such, we’re looking to branch out further into the programming/electrical side of engineering at UW. We’ve had some tremendous members from the CSE department in years past, and are looking to keep the trend going! Technical projects involving CSE students include: torque-vectoring algorithms, traction control programming, vehicle ECU design, and electrical power system development.
July 7, 2017
Happy summer!
Are you on the UW campus over summer? Are you interested in getting tutoring experience on your resume? If so, the Allen School is looking for volunteer tutors for the 300-level CSE courses offered over the summer. The courses offered are:
- CSE 331: Software Design and Implementation
- CSE 332: Data Structures and Parallels
- CSE 333: Systems Programming
- CSE 344: Intro to Data Management
WHY TUTOR?
Tutoring is a great way to work on your communication skills, support your fellow undergrads, and get experience on your resume. Additionally, it is a low commitment way to determine if a teaching assistant position in the future is a good fit for you or to keep up with your current tutoring skills. This is a volunteer position but tutors who meet with their group every week during the quarter will get CSE swag!
TUTORING DETAILS
Tutoring will be offered
July 3rd – August 18th. Tutors meet once/week working with a group of 1-4
undergrads, covering CS concepts from a course of your choice. No prior tutoring experience necessary (this is an opportunity for students in the course to get
extra help in addition to resources offered by the instructor and teaching assistants
).
The commitment is one hour/week for one quarter = a total commitment of 7ish hours total.
REQUIREMENTS
Your knowledge of the material (you must have completed and passed the course) and your willingness to help!
To volunteer, please review these guidelines and sign up online by Thursday, June 29th:
https://www.cs.washington.edu/students/ugrad/tutoring/tutor
Questions? E-mail Chloe (cdolese@cs.washington.edu). Thanks for considering!
June 27, 2017
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Nancy Wang <wangnxr@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 4:52 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] HPC Cloud AWS credit application open for the summer
To: cs-grads@cs.washington.edu, cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu
Cc: sdf94@uw.edu
Hi everyone,
The HPC cloud chapter is again offering our cloud credit program this month. The goal is to fund student (grad and undergrad) research and projects that can be boosted with cloud technologies, as well as offer a
safe place for students to begin experimenting with what the cloud has to offer. If you have a project and a little bit of prior cloud experience (we are in our alpha testing stage right now) , please apply here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScteupd3gbUbmM-x2I0VXx-aZ4-BWqv0AFk9iLjeAv53z0Yvg/viewform . It is a rolling deadline but they will begin to look at applications very soon and the application will close when we are out of funds. We have a new president for the chapter, Sarah, so please email her if you have any questions. Feel free to forward!
Cheers,
Nancy
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June 8, 2017
We have decided that we will open a small admission cycle for BSMS students between fall and winter quarter next year. This is in response to some student concerns about the late policy change requiring students to still be enrolled undergraduates at the time they apply to the BSMS program.
We have been asked if students who are not admitted this June can re-apply at the end of fall quarter. While the answer is yes, we will be only admitting a very small number of people and the focus will be students who were affected by the policy change. Please also keep in mind that there may not be enough that has changed in your application during one quarter to make much of a difference in the outcome. Your primary focus should still be on an application this round, and you should meet with us before deciding to reapply at the end of fall.
Thank you for your patience as we work together to improve our policies and procedures.
Sincerely,
Crystal Eney & Jenifer Hiigli
BSMS Advising Team
June 7, 2017
Just a reminder to keep checking the Jobs Blog as we’re still getting a few late requests for summer internships. Here is one we are posting today for an on-campus position.
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If you are interested in a Summer internship, we have a last minute opportunity that just came up. We are looking for an undergraduate student proficient at programming in Python and Java to implement clustering algorithms in the Myria big data system with applications in astronomy. Please send your transcript and CV to Prof. Magda Balazinska (magda@cs). Pre-requisite: Strong grade in CSE344.
thanks
magda
June 7, 2017
Hey everybody,
There will be free pizza in the labs at 5pm TODAY.
Good luck on finals!
The ACM Execs
June 5, 2017
Hi, undergrads! Professor Richard Ladner has been a faculty member here for decades, with a wide range of interesting and impactful CS work. He’s nationally recognized for his important work making technology more accessible to users with disabilities. Come celebrate his career with this lecture reviewing his life as a UW CSE faculty member!
My 45+ Years at UW
Richard Ladner (Paul G Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering)
Host: Lazowska
Emeritus Lecture
Friday, June 2, 2017, 3:30 pm
Guggenheim 220
This lecture will be sign language interpreted.
This talk will be a remembrance of my 45+ years at the University of Washington and a thank you to all who helped make it happen. My long career can be broken up into different dimensions: teaching, research, service, and outreach. I will highlight my students, colleagues, staff members, and community members who influenced me along the way.
Bio
Richard E. Ladner is a Professor Emeritus in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington where he has been on the faculty since 1971, becoming emeritus in February, 2017. His current research is in the area of accessible computing which is an important subarea of human-computer interaction (HCI). Before that he had a research career in theoretical computer science. He has supervised or co-supervised 27 Ph.D. students with 4 more in the pipeline. He has also supervised the research of more than 100 undergraduate students, 23 of whom won Mary Gates Research Scholarships, and 2 who won CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. He has been awarded more than 25 National Science Foundation (NSF) grants worth over 17 million dollars. He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) for the NSF-funded AccessComputing Alliance that has the goal of increasing participation of students with disabilities in computing fields. He is also a PI for the NSF-funded AccessCSforAll that is helping prepare K-12 computer science teachers to be more inclusive in their courses with students with disabilities. From 2007-2013, he directed the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing. He served as Pacific Region Representative on the Council of the ACM. He served as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) from 2005-2009. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Gallaudet University from 2007-2016. He is a recipient of the 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) and the 2008 A. Nico Habermann Award. He is the winner of the 2014 SIGCHI Social Impact Award and 2016 SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1986 and Fulbright Scholar in 1993. At the University of Washington he received the Boeing Professorship in Computer Science and Engineering (2004-2012), Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (2010), Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture Award (2010), and Outstanding Service Award (2009).
June 2, 2017
