Spots are almost filled, so sign up soon!
Join Palantir engineers on Thursday Feb. 16, 6:00-8:00pm for a night of trivia, dinner, and to learn more about Palantir. Trivia will include coding challenges, a “name that song” round, and Palantir knowledge. Members of the winning team (4-5 students max) will EACH win a $100 Visa gift card.
Dinner, drinks, and swag will be provided and be sure to bring your resume.
New advanced graduate course offered this Spring 2017:
The work in the course will include paper reading, co-leading one system tutorial,
and comparatively analyzing two (or more) systems along one (or more) dimensions.
Pre-requisite: CSE444 or CSE544 or equivalent.
Time: MW 9:30am-10:50am
Location: TBD
The Ericsson Innovation Awards is a global competition that encourages forward-thinking students to work with Ericsson in driving the Networked Society, in which all things that can benefit from a connection will have one. This year, the theme is The Future of Food. Students are challenged to identify an existing problem with the production, distribution and consumption of food and propose a viable solution. All finalists will receive prizes, including a trip to the finals, a cash prize, recruitment priority and global recognition for themselves and their university. In addition to all of this, the winning team will also win €25,000 (Estimated $26,728.82).
Teams of 2 to 4 students can register and submit their ideas through March 14, 2017. Teams will be responsible for initial registration, but those who move into the semi-finals will receive significant support from Ericsson experts as they continue to develop their ideas. More information on the registration process is linked to the home page.
From: Henry Kautz <kautz@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:22 AM
Subject: NSF REU Music, Media, and Minds
Location: Rochester, Summer 2017
Announcing: NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates: Computational Methods for Understanding Music, Media, and Minds
Applications now being accepted for Summer 2017
How can a computer learn to read an ancient musical score? What can methods from signal processing and natural language analysis tell us about the history of popular music? Can a computer system teach a person to better use prosody (the musical pattern of speech) in order to become a more effective public speaker? These are some of the questions that undergraduate students will investigate this summer in our REU at the University of Rochester. Each student will be mentored by two or more faculty members drawn from Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brain and Cognitive Science, the program in Digital Media Studies, and the Eastman School of Music.
The program is open to 1st, 2nd, or 3rd year full time students at a college or university, who are US citizens or permanent residents, and who will have completed two programming courses or have equivalent experience by the start of the summer program. Students do not need to computer science majors. We encourage applications from students attending colleges that lack opportunities for research, and from students from communities underrepresented in computer science.
Please visit http://www.sas.rochester.edu/d
Weekly Newsletter:
Newer, sleeker, faster and now without CSS.
Winterball:
Hoped everyone who came had a good time!
Also, a big thanks to everyone who helped out.
Upcoming Events for this week:
Nutanix meet and greet – February 15th, 1-4 p.m., table in Atrium
Palantir lobby hours – February 16th, 3-5 p.m., table in Atrium
We have a few updates for spring 2017 registration.
1. CSE 446 will be moving times to T/TH 9-10:20am, there will be no assigned sections.
2. CSE 470 will no longer have required sections, they should be removed soon.
3. Data Visualization will count as a CSE core course.
4. Capstone add codes have been mailed out today for those who have their name on the list. If you do NOT plan to use the add code, please respond to the message with that information so others can be placed into the course.
5. Any additional capstone space will open up on 2/21.
Join Palantir engineers on Thursday Feb. 16, 6:00-8:00pm for a night of trivia, dinner, and to learn more about Palantir. Trivia will include coding challenges, a “name that song” round, and Palantir knowledge. Members of the winning team (4-5 students max) will EACH win a $100 Visa gift card.
Dinner, drinks, and swag will be provided and be sure to bring your resume. Spots are limited, so sign up soon!
From the NY Times this morning:
“But the case did not seem likely to stall on the threshold issue of standing. Judge Canby appeared to indicate that the harm to state universities was enough to establish standing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/
Hey everybody,
Just a reminder that ACM’s Winter Ball is THIS FRIDAY!
With food, drinks and a photo booth!
Location: UW CSE Atrium
Date and Time: Friday, February 10th, 2017, 4:30pm – 8pm
18+ to kick it | 21+ to sip it
Entry:
FREE for Existing UW ACM Members.
5$ for non-ACM members and guests.
You can also become a UW ACM member at the door for just $8 – good for life.
You can RSVP HERE
You’ve probably seen news of last night’s filing of a brief in the 9th
Circuit by nearly 100 companies (mostly tech companies) opposing the
immigration ban, for example:
http://www.reuters.com/
Several people have noted that Amazon is not among the companies. The
reason is that Amazon and Expedia jumped into the fray before all
those other companies, by participating in the Washington State filing
on Friday that resulted in a temporary ban – and they were asked by
the WA Attorney General to sit out the new filing for that reason.
(Expedia, too, is not among the 100 companies.)
Here’s a note I received from Amazon’s corporate counsel regarding the
situation:
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Amazon and Expedia submitted formal declarations in support of the
Attorney General’s case when it was first filed last week, and we have
been a core part of the challenge since the beginning (before other
companies became involved).
Because we are a witness in the case, and our sworn declaration is
part of the record that will be argued on appeal, it would be
inappropriate for us to participate in the amicus filing, and the
Washington Attorney General specifically asked both Amazon and Expedia
not to sign on to the Technology Companies brief filed last night. We
applaud the support offered by the other companies, however, and I
believe the brief they filed is persuasive and well written.
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