CSE Undergrad News

Join the Tech Policy Lab for a discussion on “Privacy’s Past & Future: The Federal Trade Commission in the Trump Administration” with author Chris Hoofnagle. He is the author of Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy and holds dual appointments in the School of Law and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.

Please RSVP to emcr@uw.edu.

UW WORKSHOP ON THE FUTURE of CLOUD COMPUTING
FRIDAY March 31, 2017
Husky Union Building (HUB), Room 334
8:00AM-6PM
BADGE PICK UP AT 8:00AM – Pre-Registration is REQUIRED

Below is the current Speaker List (alphabetical order). For abstracts,
bios, and schedule, please see:
http://www.industry-academia.org/UW-Workshop-Agenda-2017.html

• Prof. Tom Anderson, UW, “High Performance RPC Packet Processing with FlexNIC”
• Doug Burger, Microsoft, “Running Hardware Microservices on Configurable Clouds”
• Prof. Luis Ceze, UW, “A DNA-based Archival Storage System”
• Derek Chickles, Cavium, “Intelligent NICS for the Data Center”
• Kim Hazelwood, Facebook, “Scalable Performance in Facebook Data Centers”
• Prof. Arvind Krishnamurthy, UW, “What Can We Do with Programmable Switches?”
• Pankaj Mehra, Sandisk, “Evolutionary Changes, Revolutionary Implications: Persistent Memory in the Data Center”
• Prof. Dan Ports, UW, “Rethinking Distributed Systems for the Datacenter”
• Prof. Franziska Roesner, UW, “Security and Privacy for Augmented Reality Platforms”
• Gabriel Southern, Intel, “FPGAs in the Data Center”
• Prof. Michael Taylor, UW, “Specializing the Planet’s Computation: ASIC Clouds”
• Kees Vissers, Xilinx, “A Framework for Reduced Precision Neural Networks on FPGAs”

Organized by UW CSE faculty Prof. Arvind Krishnamurthy, Prof. Luis Ceze, and the Industry-Academia Partnership.

ATTENDANCE IS FREE FOR STUDENTS, ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Registration and additional information is available at
http://www.industry-academia.org/event-university-of-washington-cloud-workshop-2017.html

There are a bunch of new CSE admits who are starting the major next week and who could really use your wisdom. If you have been in the major for more than a quarter and have a few hours next Wednesday afternoon to help out, or if you don’t but would still like to be a resource for new students, we could really use your help!

Join NVIDIA for GPUniversity Day on April 14, 2017 in the HUB. Come explore the future of AI computing and discover how GPUs are powering this revolution by attending a deep learning workshop and tech talks!

NEW TECH SEATTLE
5th Annual SPECIAL UW Event
Featuring Presentations by UW-Grad/Faculty Founded Companies:
AnswerDash, 6crickets, XNOR.AI and Wibotic

Join the New Tech community at Seattle’s largest ongoing monthly event! When anyone gets off a plane at SeaTac and says, “I want to tap into the Seattle tech community,” whomever they’re talking to responds – “You need to go to New Tech!”

This is the place where you’ll always make great connections, enjoy great food and drinks, celebrate presentations of new tech being created by Seattle companies, laugh, smile, and have a fun night out. And most importantly, you’ll discover the people, partners, organizations, resources and opportunities for internships and jobs!

APRIL 4^th 2017 – 5:00PM to 7:15PM
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

185 Stevens Way – University of Washington Campus

RSVP NOW with the code ‘husky’ for FREE tickets at https://www.newtechnorthwest.com/events/new-tech-seattle

The Google Games Seattle is officially open for registration!

Do you think you’ve got what it takes to be a top agent? Compete against other students from University of Washington for victory in challenges that test your brains and creativity to the limit at The Google Games Seattle. It’s a quest of fun as teams of five go head to head in rigorous events: trivia, puzzles, word association, and coding competitions. If you haven’t caught on just yet, this year’s theme is “Top Secret Mission” so make sure to throw on your best gear from your favorite spy lab and get ready for an action packed event!

The Google Games Seattle

Date: April 22, 2017

Time: 10:00am to approximately 5:00pm

Location: Google Seattle, 601 North 34th Street, Seattle, WA 98103

*Don’t forget to register here*

Here’s what you’ll need to do by April 7, 2017:

• Assemble a team of five freshman, sophomore, and or/junior students from your school (having a CS background is strongly recommended).
• Pick a team name and register here (each team member must register individually).
• Check out the details and FAQs below.

Thanks,

Erica & Zack

The Summer Research Training Program at the University of Western Australia gives you an opportunity to earn 8 weeks of intensive research training in science and engineering laboratories while gaining knowledge and first-hand experience with Australian culture.

Located in the coastal city of Perth, the University of Western Australia is one of Australia’s top research institutions. Research labs hosting program students in 2017 address a variety of topics including

• aerospace engineering
• biomedical engineering
• computer science and engineering, chemistry
• electrical engineering, energy engineering
• environmental engineering
• materials science
• mechatronics engineering
• ocean engineering
• physics
• systems engineering.

The program dates are July 5 to August 25. Applications can be submitted online and are due by March 31. To learn more and submit an application, visit the UW program page or contact Mike Engh.