November 19th, 2009
Posted by Maggie
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Building Your Network & Conducting Informational Interviews
When: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 4:30 – 5:30 PM
Where: Smith 304
Summary:
Make those holiday parties work for you! Dozens of studies suggest that the most effective way to find employment opportunities is networking. Serious job-seekers take initiative to make themselves known by others who might have job leads, contacts, or advice. A common problem with networking is that many people are afraid of it or unsure how to go about it. In this workshop, we’ll show you how to build your network of professional contacts in a step by step manner using family, alumni, professional associations, informational interviews, and more. No registration required.
Event Contact Name: Briana Keller
Event Contact Email: kellerb@uw.edu
Tags: Networking
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November 19th, 2009
Posted by Maggie
The Career Center Workshops & Events for November 23 – November 25
NOTE: Unless indicated, no need to register or sign up for the following workshops. Just come!
**All The Career Center workshops are held in Room 134 Mary Gates Hall unless otherwise noted **
Monday, November 23, 3:30 – 4:30, How to Find a Job
Tuesday, November 24, 1:30 – 2:30, Resumes and Cover Letters
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November 19th, 2009
Posted by Gian
The Pride Foundation, a local LGBT non-profit is looking for a student(s) to help them to do a usability study for their new, online Scholarship Application.
They would like to have a small group meet in Spring quarter and develop methods that will help determine if the online scholarship application is user friendly for applicants and volunteers alike and perceptions of the new system compared to a paper-based method.
If you are interested, you should contact Anthony Papini at anthony@pridefoundation.org. There is $500 attached to this project.
Additionally, The Pride Foundation gives out scholarship to LGBT and allied students, so if you are interested in applying for a scholarship, visit http://pridefoundationscholar.org/.
Anthony Papini
Director of Scholarship Programs
Pride Foundation
1122 East Pike Street, PMB 1001
Seattle, WA 98122
(P) 206-323-3318 or 1-800-735-7287 x110
(F) 206-323-1017
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November 18th, 2009
Posted by Gian
The Puget Sound Human Factors & Ergonomics Society is hosting an information session on November 19thin the HCDE Conference room at 11:30AM.
PSHFES will be providing pizza and soda at this event! Be sure and attend. For more information, see the attached flyer.
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November 18th, 2009
Posted by Maggie
The Computer Science and Engineering Department of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU Poly) invites applications for a faculty position with research focus in one or more of the following broad areas: data and knowledge management, web search and information retrieval, computer games, or social networks and online communities. We welcome applications at all levels with an exceptional record in research, teaching, and professional accomplishments. The rank of initial appointment will be commensurate with experience and accomplishments.
The Polytechnic Institute of NYU (formerly known as Brooklyn Poly) and New York University are in advanced stages of merger proceedings, with the goal of us becoming a school of NYU. The successful candidate will have excellent opportunities to initiate interdisciplinary research and educational collaborations with the diverse institutes and departments within NYU.
Our department has existing research strengths in several relevant areas including cyber security, web and text search, content distribution and distributed systems, machine learning, and computer interfaces. Our faculty is also involved in the recently founded Games for Learning Institute (see http://g4li.nyu.edu/), which engages faculty from a number of schools at NYU. We are looking for a faculty member that would significantly strengthen and complement our current research efforts. Areas of particular interest are (i) principles and architectures of computer games, (ii) mining, search, and analysis of the web and of social networks and online worlds, (iii) data engineering and data or text mining with applications in security, electronic commerce, or the web, or (iv) research programs that combine the above listed themes in innovative ways.
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November 17th, 2009
Posted by Maggie
IDID, India
Interaction Design & International Development Conference / India HCI
20-24 March 2010, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
High quality designs increasingly important for users, for industry, and for society across the world. India and the other emerging economies have been designing, implementing, using and exporting interactive software, hardware and systems. These settings bring new challenges for human-computer interaction design – of a wide variety of cultures and languages, of different levels of literacy and education, of new sets of users with different experience, attitudes, expectations and capabilities. They also raise issues of designing technology to support social and economic development for marginalised groups, of designing interactive technologies that are not only affordable by the poor but even those that will help in alleviating poverty.
The other perspective is of industrial practice. On the one hand technology companies in India are process conscious, with many CMMI and ISO certificates. On the other, the HCI research and practice is still maturing. Challenges are many – of limited number of people with the right HCI skills, of low HCI awareness among the development and marketing, of integrating HCI activities in mainstream software development, of limited contact with the end-users, of the need to develop new techniques to suit this context, and of responding to major economic shocks such as the current recession.
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Tags: conferences, hci
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November 17th, 2009
Posted by Maggie
HCDE students:
Apply to the SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program. The application deadline is December 15, 2009 for Fall 2010 starts. Applications must be done on-line at www.asee.org/SMART. This is a highly-selective, prestigious, national program that fully supports their education, including full tuition and a very generous stipend in the range of $25,000 a year for undergraduates and $41,000 for doctoral candidates, while they are in school. It also includes a book allowance of $1,000 a year, health insurance, summer internships, and travel fees for internships. Students must be U.S. Citizens, able to obtain a DoD Security Clearance, and be willing to work in a defense laboratory upon graduation. There will be approximately 300 new awards this year.
For more information about the program and application process, please refer your students to www.asee.org/smart.
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