Monthly Archive for September, 2009

Projectors, laptops, videoconferencing, etc available to UW students through STF

Published on September 30, 2009 in Current Students. 0 Comments Tags: .

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Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Classroom Support Services (CSS), and Health Sciences Academic Services and Facilities (HSAS&F) in conjunction with the Student Technology Fee Committee (STF) and the Services and Activities Fee Committee (S&AF), are pleased to announce the availability of technological equipment for loan to students.

We look forward to serving our student customers by providing this service in support of their academic and technological needs on the campus.

Visit the STF website to reserve today.

UW Career Center Workshops & Events for October 3 – October 10

Published on September 30, 2009 in Career Resources, Current Students and Events. 0 Comments Tags: .

UW Career Center Workshops & Events for October 3 – October 10

NOTE: Unless indicated, no need to register or sign up for the following workshops.  Just come!

**All UW Career Center workshops are held in Room 134 Mary Gates Hall unless otherwise noted **

Friday, October 2, 1:30 – 2:30, Resumes & Cover Letters

Monday, October 5,  3:30 – 4:30, How to Find a Job

Tuesday, October 6, 3:30 – 4:30, Resumes & Cover Letters

**Thursday, October 8, 1:30 – 4:30, Resume Café, MGH Commons**

Attend the Career Center’s Resume Café and have your resume checked out by participating employers and UW Career Center staff! Please note: sign ups

***  Walk-In Appointments: Good for resume reviews and quick questions.

15 minute sessions Monday – Thursday, 10:00 – 3:00

Sign-up for a session during our office hours in 134 Mary Gates Hall.***

Go to http://careers.washington.edu/Students/Calendar for an ongoing Student Calendar of events and more details.

Thanks and good luck in your search for campus jobs, internships and career positions!

UW Career Center
Office Hours: 8:00 – 5:00, Monday – Friday
Explore, Connect, Succeed
UW Career Center
University of Washington
main: (206) 543-0535
http://careers.washington.edu

HCDE blog redesign

Published on September 29, 2009 in Misc.. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

After a successful reader survey on the design and usability of the HCDE blog, we have implemented a few changes.

  • Default, simple design replaces custom box design
  • Categories now grouped by parent and child labels to better address audience type

Future changes include:

  • Guest posts by alumni and current students
  • More cross linking between HCDE home site and the blog

I will be contacting readers who have won HCDE prizes for participating in the survey.

Thanks for reading!

-Maggie Bardacke

Students: Sign Up for UW Windows Live & UW Google Apps

Published on September 29, 2009 in Current Students. 0 Comments Tags: , .

imagesFor the first-time ever, the UW is offering email, calendaring, and other collaborative tools “in the cloud” for students, who can sign up beginning Sept. 28. Both vendors (Microsoft Live@Edu and Google Apps Education Edition) will be at the Student Tech Fair along with UW Technology to showcase the services and answer questions. You can sign up online or at the fair.

Wednesday @ DUB (CSE 203): Triple treat: Patrick Baudisch, Saleema Amershi, and Shaun Kane

Published on September 29, 2009 in Current Students and Events. 0 Comments Tags: , .

luminoThis week we have an extended, particularly awesome DUB with three great talks. First, Patrick Baudisch, a researcher at Microsoft Research and professor of Computer Science at Hasso Plattner Institute in Berlin/Potsdam, will give us an update on the work he’s been doing since he moved back to Germany last year to take up the position as the head of HCI lab at Hasso Plattner. Patrick will speak about two recent projects: a prototype for touch input based on a fingerprint scanner, and a system for detecting objects arranged in a three-dimensional structure on a Microsoft Surface by equipping them with glass fiber bundles that transmits light from the in the objects higher in the structure down to the camera embedded in the table. Patrick sent a cool image that illustrates how this work. The image is attached below.

After Patrick’s talk, we’ll have two UIST practice talks by our current PhD students. The first talk is by Saleema Amershi, a student in computer science advised by James Fogarty. Saleema will speak about her work on improving how end-users can train machine learning systems to detect desired concepts in large unstructured data sets. The second talk is by Shaun Kane, a student at the iSchool advised by Jake Wobbrock and an intern at Intel Labs Seattle. Shan will speak about the work he’s been doing at Intel on Bonfire, a system that uses laptop mounted cameras and projectors to extend interaction from the screen and keyboard to the table surfaces next to the computer. This enables a range of applications, including automating actions based on objects placed on the table.

The details for all three talks are below. They promise to be extremely interesting and I hope that all of you can come and see them.

Given the dense schedule for Wednesday, try to arrive right at noon. The plan is to have some food, and then start with Patrick’s talk at 12:15. Saleema will then go on at 1 and Shaun at 1:30. We should wrap up by 2 pm.

This week DUB is meeting in CSE 203. The directions to the computer science building are below.

Although our fall schedule is filling up, we still have several open slots later in the fall. If you’d like to speak at DUB or know of anyone who would be interested, send me an email (klasnja@u.washington.edu).

See you on Wednesday!

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ATTW 2010 — Ready to Accept Proposals!

Published on September 29, 2009 in Current Students and Events. 0 Comments Tags: .

ATTW 2010

Synergies: The Intersections of Research and Teaching

13th Annual Conference

March 17, 2010

Louisville, KY

The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) invites proposals for papers, poster presentations, and workshops to be given at its annual conference immediately preceding the CCCC.  The thirteenth annual conference will be held in Louisville, KY, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010.  The full-day event includes concurrent sessions, poster presentations, workshops, book exhibits, and opportunities for exchanging ideas, working on projects, and networking in a supportive and challenging academic environment.

This year’s conference will highlight ways that research informs teaching and teaching informs research.  It will challenge researchers, teachers, and practitioners of technical and professional communication to push beyond the generic “implications for teaching” section appended to research articles to explore the synergies and questions available when we place research and teaching into conversation.

Submissions on all topics are welcome, but we especially encourage proposals that examine topics such as the following:

* the effectiveness of established or innovative pedagogies,

* a research question sparked by an observation in the classroom,

* pedagogical experiments sparked by research findings,

* the needs of the workplace, the university, the field, or the community and ways to meet or challenge these needs in service, major, or graduate courses,

* the roles, challenges, and benefits of instructional technologies,

* the implications of existing research for the design of programs and curriculum,

* pedagogies that can be used to teach research in the university and in the workplace,

* research methods that can be used to examine pedagogies,

* the relationships between teaching and research as they play out in different contexts within our discipline,

* directions for future research on pedagogy or questions raised by classroom experiences.

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Join HCDE for our autumn speaker series this Thursday

Published on September 28, 2009 in Current Students, Events, Masters, PhD and Undergrads. 0 Comments

Please join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering this Thursday for our Fall 2009 Current Issues in Human Centered Design & Engineering Seminar Series. The presentation format is a 30-minute talk followed by a Q&A session. Members of the UW community and the public are welcome.

The week’s featured speaker is:

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Current Student iPhone apps

Published on September 28, 2009 in Misc.. 0 Comments Tags: .

I am sure you all have heard about OneBusAway, a great app created by a UW student. Well, here are some apps being created from one of our evening MS student’s company.

We’re excited to announce some fresh new software from your friends (that’s us) at Jackson Fish Market.

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Student Technology Fair: Sept. 28

Published on September 25, 2009 in Current Students, Events, Masters, PhD and Undergrads. 0 Comments

Drop in to the Student Tech Fair in UW Seattle’s Odegaard Undergraduate Library, 2nd floor, during Dawg Daze on Monday, Sept. 28, from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. You’ll find information on the UW’s latest technology offerings for students. The “From the Earth to the Clouds” themed event will feature speakers and presentations on cloud, mobile, and green computing, as well as prizes and giveaways.

Thesis/Dissertation information session for Autumn Quarter graduates October 13th

Published on September 24, 2009 in Current Students, Masters and PhD. 0 Comments

The Graduate School is providing an information session to Autumn Quarter graduates regarding thesis/dissertation formats and submission. We will discuss the Graduate School format requirements, demonstrate how to submit a document in 5 minutes or less, provide tips on what a Graduate School adviser is going to check, and answer questions. If time allows, we will personally provide preliminary reviews of title and signature pages. This session is scheduled for:

Tuesday, October 13th
2:30 – 4 pm
Gowen 301