Monthly Archive for June, 2009

CELT is currently hiring undergraduate research assistants (announcement below).

Position 1 is a great opportunity to gain experience in managing large amounts of data, doing qualitative coding, and gaining experience in social science methodology.

Position 2 should be of interest to this group as it is looking at the use of music to convey information. At CELT, we have time-series data of people performing engineering design problems that has been segmented and coded into design activities. When we visualize this data, many people comment on how it looks like music. Well, we’re taking people up on that insight and transforming them to melody.

The announcement is also available online at: http://tinyurl.com/celtjobs

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Title: New Directions for Infrastructure Mediated Sensing

Date: Wednesday, June 24
Location: Intel Labs Seattle
Time: 4:00 – 5:00pm
Speaker: Shwetak N. Patel
Host: Sunny Consolvo
http://www.seattle.intel-research.net/

Abstract: The use of sensing systems in the home has the potential to impact various application areas such as chronic care management, aging in place, and sustainability. However, a major challenge remains in identifying and developing truly ubiquitous sensing solutions that address deployment challenges of cost-effectiveness, installation, maintenance, and overall acceptability for a general audience. In the home, the goal of practical ubiquity has led me to develop a new sensing approach, which I call “Infrastructure Mediated Sensing,” or IMS. Infrastructure mediation refers to the simple augmentation and probing of existing home infrastructure, such as the electrical power lines, plumbing, or HVAC systems, to sense human activity. In this talk, I will discuss my work in infrastructure and wireless sensing, applications of these technologies, and some new research directions.
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Hourly Student Programmer – Keeping Found Things Found
University of Washington Information School

Position Title
Hourly Student Programmer

Start Date: as soon as possible
End Date: 9/15/2009
(Possible option to continue as a Research Assistant in the 2009-10 school year).

Location
Information School, Roosevelt Commons Building

Position Description
We are looking for a person with the skills and the motivation to make significant advances on a research prototype designed to radically improve the way people manage their information. The Keeping Found Things Found (KFTF) project (http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/) has received funding from the National Science Foundation to continue work on a Personal Project Planner prototype. The Planner supports the creation of document-like Plans for projects like “Plan a summer vacation” “Find a job” or “Finish my master thesis”. A Plan provides a basis for the automatic, integrative tagging and display of documents, email messages and web pages needed to complete a project. (For more information on the current Planner and to try it out see: http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/planner_index.htm).
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Availability: Starting at Autumn Quarter 2009

UW TechTransfer, the university’s unit that facilitates the intellectual property
protection and commercialization of UW research, has internship openings for
Technical Communication students (Junior year or Senior year). We are looking for
talented and motivated writers seeking exposure and experience working in a
fast-paced business environment.

There are three positions available in the following units:
• Technology Licensing
• LaunchPad Services
• Strategic Initiatives

Our writing needs are as follows:
• Translate technical and scientific information describing UW technologies
into easy to understand marketing and business development tools to help promote UW
discoveries.
• Work with our LaunchPad Services team to help write business plans and
create marketing resources (website copy etc.) for our UW startup companies.
• Write in-depth and compelling articles for our newsletter, annual report
and website on technologies we have identified as ground-breaking, innovative or
significant for the market the technology might address or the path toward IP
protection and/or commercialization.

UW TechTransfer handles intellectual property protection and licensing matters pertaining to innovations developed within the University of Washington. For more information about UW TechTransfer visit our website at: depts.washington.edu/techtran. For further information about this position, please
email techtran@u.washington.edu

This position is intended to complement the formal academic training and serve as a
practicum in the successful candidate’s field of interest.

Requirements:
–Maintain confidentiality;
–Strong written and verbal communication skills;
–Capacity to absorb technical details of complex technologies;
–Ability to work independently and collaboratively;
–Effective at setting priorities and obtaining closure;
–Eager to work in a highly motivated and collaborative environment.
Internships are unpaid.

This summer a course on Twitter is being offered by Kathy Gill, an excellent instructor who teaches in the Digital Media (masters) program in the UW Department of Communication. See below for more info.

http://twitter09.wordpress.com/

This course explores the impact of Twitter on organizational communication – from facilitating knowledge sharing to bypassing traditional communication gatekeepers, from social network impacts on content creation to new methods of conversational marketing. The objective of the course is to expose students to current practices in the digital ideaspace and the impacts of emerging technologies like Twitter on traditional communication practices.

COM 597 SPECIAL TOPICS
Full-term
SLN 13851
Section B
5 credits
Meets Tuesday nights, 6:00-10:00 PM, CMU 126
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