From horton at cs.virginia.edu Thu Nov 3 09:49:47 2005 From: horton at cs.virginia.edu (Tom Horton) Date: Thu Mar 23 11:27:34 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] Microsoft Imagine Cup competition for 2006 Message-ID: <436A238B.5070104@cs.virginia.edu> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Alf Weaver" Subject: [cs-announce] Microsoft Imagine Cup competition for 2006 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 09:31:34 -0500 Size: 6020 Url: http://www.cs.Virginia.EDU/pipermail/ugrads07/attachments/20051103/29492c5c/cs-announceMicrosoftImagineCupcompetitionfor2006.eml From son at cs.virginia.edu Thu Nov 3 15:57:55 2005 From: son at cs.virginia.edu (Sang Hyuk Son) Date: Thu Mar 23 11:27:34 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] Undergrad Research Assistant Message-ID: <200511032057.jA3KvsFF013722@ares.cs.Virginia.EDU> I am looking for 1 or 2 undergrad RA. It can start from this winter and through the following year. The project RA will be involved is partially funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) and Office of Naval Research (ONR). It deals with real-time event services in sensor networks and performance evaluation using simulation. Hope to hear from interested students. -Sang *************** Sang Hyuk Son Professor Dept. of Computer Science University of Virginia 151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4740 Phone: (434) 982-2205 Fax: (434) 982-2214 son(at)cs.virginia.edu http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~son From cohoon at virginia.edu Wed Nov 9 13:18:17 2005 From: cohoon at virginia.edu (Jim Cohoon) Date: Thu Mar 23 11:27:34 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] CS 290 and CS 390 - important information Message-ID: <001801c5e559$f5134ce0$f5458f80@lumen> Dear Students: 3rd year Computer Science students should be registering for CS 390 next semester. 2nd year Computer Science students should be registering for CS 290 next semester. This course replaces the CS 390 requirement for them. The decision to replace CS 390 with CS 290 was based on interviews with prior graduating classes. The prior classes indicated that the course made them aware of what research opportunities were available within the department. -- Jim Cohoon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.cs.Virginia.EDU/pipermail/ugrads07/attachments/20051109/facab82f/attachment.htm From horton at cs.virginia.edu Wed Nov 9 16:45:39 2005 From: horton at cs.virginia.edu (Tom Horton) Date: Thu Mar 23 11:27:34 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] waitlist for CS305 for spring Message-ID: <43726E03.6060304@cs.virginia.edu> CS, CpE, and CS/College majors: My course CS305, HCI in SW Development (formerly called Usability Engineering), is now full. If you hoped to take the course and have met the pre-req (CS201), then there is a waiting list. You can sign up on this using the web at this URL: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/webman/waiting-lists/list Right now the course is full at 40 people. It will certainly get larger, perhaps 60 or more, but it's hard for me to say what your chances of getting in are. First priority has to go to students in computing majors (CS, CpE, and the CS program in the College) who need the course to fulfill a CS/CpE elective to graduate. But it's also important to me to have a mix of people in this particular class, so I also do my best to include some people who are 3rd years (and who may do a Sr. Thesis in this area next year), Systems majors, and other students outside of Engineering. I'll send out email later on when things are clearer. This could be as late as right after Thanksgiving. Course size may depend on how much TA support I get for the class, and this is hard to find out until closer to the end of term. Sorry about this -- I wish we taught CS305 more often than once very 2 years. Tom Horton P.S. Many many students tell me that they "need" to take CS305 since it can be used satisify a required elective in the CS or CpE category for majors. But you should think about a back-up if you can't get into CS305. If you're a CS major, consider CS416 (filling up rapidly also) and CS458 (which does *not* require CS457 as a pre-req for this term). If you're a CpE major, consider those two and also electives in the ECE department which are available to you as CpE majors. (You CpE majors have more flexibility.) I realize that we do want our 3rd years to take some CS/CpE electives, but it looks to me that things are going to be pretty tight this spring in terms of electives. That's too bad. I hear we are going to see if a new in-coming faculty member might be able to teach an undergrad elective. If that works out, you'll get email sent to you on this list. -- Dr. Tom Horton, Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science, University of Virginia 151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4740 Phone: 434 982-2217 FAX: 434 982-2214 horton@virginia.edu http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~horton From engineeringcareers at virginia.edu Thu Nov 10 14:23:15 2005 From: engineeringcareers at virginia.edu (Center for Engineering Career Development) Date: Thu Mar 23 11:27:35 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] Co-op opportunity for 3rd yr. CpE & CS students Message-ID: Co-op opportunity for 3rd yr. CpE, CS, or EE students M/A-Inc has challenging Co-op assignments for the spring semester in Lynchburg, Virginia. M/A-COM is a leader in offering land mobile radio solutions, with a proven state of the art two-way radio communications system. Engineers will gain a wide range of experience and knowledge working with two-way radio systems, RF antenna systems, microwave systems, and wireless data systems. Engineers will work in a team environment to design and provide telecommunications systems to M/A-COM's land mobile radio customers. Candidates should be third year students and be working towards a BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering. These assignments will run from January through May 2006. Interested candidates should submit their resume to CJ Livesay, Director, Engineering Career Development Office, A 113 Thornton Hall. Please see our website for information on the Co-op Program at www.seas.virginia.edu/careerdevelopment. 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URL: http://www.cs.Virginia.EDU/pipermail/ugrads07/attachments/20051110/de598ef1/attachment.htm From bhp6a at cs.virginia.edu Thu Nov 10 14:26:35 2005 From: bhp6a at cs.virginia.edu (Brenda H. Perkins) Date: Thu Mar 23 11:27:35 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] 3rd Year CS Majors Message-ID: All , > > Please see the message below from Prof. Horowitz .. > > I am looking for a third year undergraduate student interested in pursuing > an MS in SIE via the Advanced Bachelors/Master's Degree Program (ABMDP) > (This program offers the outstanding undergraduate the opportunity to > write one thesis and to receive simultaneously the Bachelor's and Master's > degrees in no more than five academic sessions plus two summer sessions. > The student must apply for acceptance into the program during his/her > third year. The application deadline is February 1. The students selected > must spend the summer between their third and fourth years working on a > research project under the supervision of a research advisor and enroll in > H403, Research Proposal Writing. The student will be admitted > unconditionally to the ABMDP at the end of the summer period upon the > recommendation of the research advisor and satisfactory performance on the > research project. At the same time the student will be approved for > admission to full graduate status and can register for any graduate course > approved by his/her advisor. (For technical reasons, the admission to a > graduate degree program will not become effective until June 1 of the > students' fourth year.) > > This will involve research efforts targeted to > sensor/communications/signal processing integration. We work with > miniature, state-of-the-art devices called motes, developed by Intel to > develop advanced systems integration concepts. When developing programs > for devices we use a special purpose programming language called nesC (a > subset of C). The OS is TinyOS, a special OS for such devices. We are > currently integrating a > software development environment that permits development for these > devices to be done on Linux platforms. The applications are related to > networks of wireless sensors applied to surveillance operations. We > develop and run experiments with prototypes of actual systems. The > selected student will become part of a team of several faculty members, a > research scientist, and a number of graduate and undergraduate > students. He or she will receive research support funding throughout the > time of the thesis activity. > > With this note I am requesting interested students who believe they are > qualified to send me an e-mail expressing interest, and a resume. I will > require a high grade point average in addition to some software design and > programming experience. After receiving resumes, I will contact > students for interviews. > > Barry Horowitz > Professor From cohoon at virginia.edu Fri Nov 11 08:59:02 2005 From: cohoon at virginia.edu (Jim Cohoon) Date: Thu Mar 23 11:27:35 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] Job opportunity with undergraduate thesis possibilities Message-ID: <000f01c5e6c8$127fcbe0$f5458f80@lumen> Undergraduate Research Assistant to work with a faculty member in Science, Technology, and Society. Student will have specific responsibility for programming online surveys. Pay starts at $14/hour. Job description: 1. Program using Inquisite or other software to create online tools for data collection. 2. Create and maintain project web pages. 3. Assist with creation of online data collection tools. 4. Other research support duties as assigned. 5. Ten hours per week during the academic year, with a flexible schedule and potential for summer employment. Duties will be assigned and supervised by Joanne McGrath Cohoon and graduate research assistants. Qualifications: 1. Experience with computer programming and with common software such as Word, Excel, Access, etc. SPSS is a plus. 2. Strong problem-solving and organization skills. 3. Strong communication skills. Send resume with GPA and contact information to jmcohoon@virginia.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.cs.Virginia.EDU/pipermail/ugrads07/attachments/20051111/0ad7e37b/attachment.htm From horton at cs.virginia.edu Mon Nov 28 13:32:29 2005 From: horton at cs.virginia.edu (Tom Horton) Date: Thu Mar 23 11:27:35 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] another CS elective for spring Message-ID: <438B4D3D.8060409@cs.virginia.edu> Computing majors, The CS department has heard your comments about there not being enough electives next term for 3rd and 4th year students. We are pleased that some things have worked out in a way that lets us add an additional course: CS 494, Object Oriented Design When: 1200-1250 MWF Pre-req: CS216 Instructor: Prof. Milner This course focuses on doing OO analysis and design, using UML (a diagramming notation) and design patterns. The last two topics are really important in doing OO software, and students who have taken this course have commented on how much this helped them later on the job market. Details of next spring's version of CS494 are being worked out (since we're just adding it). But this course is on ISIS already so you can sign up for it now. It will count as an elective for CS, CpE, the CS/College program, and the CS minor program. Tom Horton (for the CS department) -- Dr. Tom Horton, Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science, University of Virginia 151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4740 Phone: 434 982-2217 FAX: 434 982-2214 horton@virginia.edu http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~horton From horton at cs.virginia.edu Wed Nov 30 13:12:48 2005 From: horton at cs.virginia.edu (Tom Horton) Date: Thu Mar 23 11:27:35 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] Spring 06 ugrad TAs/graders needed! Message-ID: <438DEBA0.5030706@cs.virginia.edu> Students taking CS/CpE classes: Interested in working as a TA or grader for the CS department next term? We're looking for undergrads to be graders or TAs for many of our CS and CpE courses. You don't have to be a CS or CpE major. (So pass the word to any other non-majors who might be interested.) To apply, fill out form at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/jobs/ and look for the link for "Graders and TAs". (We have a new system for collecting application info. It now keeps you from having to re-enter info about your grades and if you've TA'd before. Send comments or bug-reports on this system to me.) The pay rates are on the Web application form -- they may be not-quite-right, but I'm double-checking this today. But there are reasons other than money why you might want to work for us. This is one way to get to know CS professors (perhaps to get a reference or find a Sr. Thesis advisor). It might be good for your resume. Perhaps most importantly, we in CS know that you undergrads play an important role in helping deliver high quality CS courses at UVa! We'll process the applications in right before next term starts, and let you know if we can offer you a job before classes start. (If you need to know sooner, contact me.) Thanks! P.S. Students often ask me if there's anything they can do to help them get the job with the course they want. The answer is to go talk to the instructor, so that he or she knows who you are and that you've applied. When we get all the applications, the instructors are sent a list of who applied and they tell us who they'd prefer to have. If you talk to the instructor at some point before we go over the applications, there is a better chance they're indicate that they'd like to have you working for them. -- Dr. Tom Horton, Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science, University of Virginia 151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4740 Phone: 434 982-2217 FAX: 434 982-2214 horton@virginia.edu http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~horton