From reh4j at virginia.edu Sun Oct 1 09:38:40 2006 From: reh4j at virginia.edu (Rachel Elaine House) Date: Sun Oct 1 19:18:34 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] Diversity Talk by V.P. William Harvey (October 2) Message-ID: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Welcomes WILLIAM B. HARVEY Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity Since The World Is 'Flat,' How Do We Draw A New Map? Thomas Friedman's recent bestseller has called attention to an issue that should concern all of us, especially those of us in the academic community. But, if the flipside of crisis is opportunity, this may be just the right situation at the right time to compel us to consider how we can embed enthusiasm for the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields into underserved communities. Introduction by DEAN JAMES H. AYLOR Date: Monday, October 2, 2006 Time: 3:30pm Place: Olsson Hall, Room 120 Reception to follow at 4:30pm Hosted by : CS - Computer Science Department CDE - Center for Diversity in Engineering SWE - Society of Women Engineers ACM-W ? ACM Committee on Women in Computing SHPE - Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers NSBE - National Society of Black Engineers From horton at cs.virginia.edu Fri Oct 6 17:35:21 2006 From: horton at cs.virginia.edu (Tom Horton) Date: Fri Oct 6 17:35:24 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] job opportunity: CGI Message-ID: <4526CC19.4040704@cs.virginia.edu> From time to time we use this list to pass along info about job opportunities from employers who recruit UVa students. Info about such an opportunity is below. We in CS don't know any more about this other than what you can read, and our telling you about this not any kind of endorsement or anything like that -- we're just trying to be helpful. ----------------- To All Computer Science Fourth-Years, CGI, an IT consulting firm based in Fairfax, VA, near Washington, DC, will be interviewing on grounds at University Career Services this Thursday, October 12, and has some openings remaining on its on-grounds interview schedules. CGI is actively pursuing computer science students interested in developing business systems for the large organizations, primarily major federal government agencies, that utilize CGI?s IT consulting services. Over 40 positions are available in Fairfax, VA, the Washington, DC Metro area, and in Lebanon, VA, where CGI recently opened a new software development center. To be considered for an interview, please attend CGI?s company information session this Wednesday, October 11 at 5 PM in the Zehmer Hall Conference Center auditorium. Casual dress is fine. Please be sure to bring a copy of your resume with you. Several UVA graduates will be in attendance to provide information on the job opportunities, the CGI culture, and preparing for the on-grounds interview. If you are selected for an interview, you will be notified by phone or email later Wednesday evening. If you have any questions, please contact CGI at college.recruiting@cgifederal.com. For further information on CGI, please visit the CGI website at www.cgi.com. We hope you will take the time to consider these technical consulting opportunities. Thanks, Bob Warmkessel Recruiter CGI Federal Fairfax, VA From horton at cs.virginia.edu Fri Oct 13 09:30:53 2006 From: horton at cs.virginia.edu (Tom Horton) Date: Fri Oct 13 09:31:03 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] CpE roundtable; policy internships; job possibility Message-ID: <452F950D.5000106@cs.virginia.edu> Three things might interest some of you: #1) CpE majors (or those interested in CpE): -- What: Comp. Engin. Research Roundtable -- When: Today (Fri., Oct. 13) from 3-4 pm in Olsson Hall 120 -- Description: CpE majors will talk about what they've been doing as CpEs in terms of research and internships. This will be a great chance to find out more about computer engineering as a major and get to know your fellow CpE. Sandwiches and other treats will be provided. #2) Any SEAS major: The Engineering school has a program called the Policy Internship Program where 2nd and 3rd years get placed with government agencies in DC or Richmond as summer interns in organizations where its important to under both technology and policy. Last summer students worked for the White House, the NSF, the NIH, a Sentate committee, etc. There will be information sessions about this program on Tuesday, October 17 at 12:30pm and on Wednesday, October 18 at 12:00pm. Both sessions will be held in the Rodman Room and free pizza and soda will be provided. #3) 4th year computing majors: A company who recruited at the Career Fair has asked us to call your attention to openings they have for entry-level software engineer positions. The company is this one: http://www.microstrategy.com/ and the job description can be found here: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~horton/tmp/microstrategy-posn1-f06.doc If you want to apply, the deadline has passed to apply through MonsterTrak, but you can still send your send resumes to collegerecruiting@microstrategy.com. -- 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 dhruv at virginia.edu Sat Oct 14 17:12:19 2006 From: dhruv at virginia.edu (Dhruv Kapadia) Date: Sat Oct 14 21:33:08 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] ACM Programming Contest In-Reply-To: <45307417.1070803@virginia.edu> References: <45307417.1070803@virginia.edu> Message-ID: <5432d9220610141412t74ecdff0g43c293783ed38ea0@mail.gmail.com> Sorry if you've recieve this twice. CS people: The annual international ACM programming contest is quickly approaching. We need teams of up to three people to compete at the regional contest, which takes place at Marymount University on October 28. More information can be found here: http://www.radford.edu/~acm/midatl/ Interested students should contact Jake Harr (jakeharr@virginia.edu) as soon as possible, since spots are limited. Teams must be determined by the end of this weekend. Even if you do not have a team to join, please email me; we will try our best to match people together. --Jake (on behalf of ACM) From robins at cs.virginia.edu Tue Oct 24 19:40:22 2006 From: robins at cs.virginia.edu (Gabriel Robins) Date: Wed Oct 25 09:36:05 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] photomosaics Message-ID: <200610242340.k9ONeMZt013246@cobra.cs.Virginia.EDU> Colleagues, We added several dozen new posters to the Dept walls. (Some of the older wall posters were recycled / reused to substantially lower the cost of materials and framing.) The new posters include updated research projects summaries (i.e., from http://www.cs.virginia.edu/research/descriptions.html), new faculty bios (i.e., http://www.cs.virginia.edu/people/faculty.html), and numerous photomosaics. Please let me know if any changes are in order to any of this content (including new photos & logos), and we'll propagate these changes to our web site, as well as into the next version of these posters. As before, the 5-poster set near the back of the Dept. (i.e., on the sliding wooden rail near the CS Lounge) are frameless and portable, which makes them easy to bring to and display (on easels) at various CS, SEAS, and UVa events such as Open House, Parents Day, etc. All the CS posters' source files (including the new photomosaics, each in several different resolutions / sizes) may be found at: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/posters/ I created all the phosomosaics using the program AndreaMosaic: http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/ using as tiles the images of the CS Dept photo collection at: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/research/slide_photos.html This collection contains all the photos that cycle through the top-level CS Web page; this set currently contains 3646 photos, all in a uniform 400x200 pixel resolution, totaling 160 MB, and can also be copied directly from the server directory: /uf14/webteam/server/htdocs/research/images/400_200 In each photomosaic hanging on our walls, any individual photo/tile in the collection above appears in the photomosaic at most once. Each poster required between a few minutes to a few dozen minutes of CPU time to compute on a high-end PC, depending on the target image complexity and tiling resolution parameters. This photomosaic software is easy to use - feel free to experiment with it. If you create new good photomosaics that are appropriate for display in the CS Dept hallways, please give me a pointer to them (along with the original target image), and I'll have them laminated, framed and hung on the walls. Also, if you or your group has any new research posters for our hallway walls (or would like to update or replace old existing research posters), please give me the source files, and I'll have them processed and put up on our walls. Enjoy! Gabe ====================================================== Dr. Gabriel Robins Professor of Computer Science Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Department of Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Virginia 151 Engineer's Way P.O. Box 400740 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4740 (434) 982-2207 robins@cs.virginia.edu www.cs.virginia.edu/robins ====================================================== From kmw7d at virginia.edu Wed Oct 25 00:45:47 2006 From: kmw7d at virginia.edu (Kristin M. Wang) Date: Wed Oct 25 09:36:10 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] Imagine Cup 2007 Message-ID: <000701c6f7f0$706f1e60$514d5b20$@edu> Imagine Cup 2007 (www.imaginecup.com) One World. Unlimited Possibilities. Imagine a world where technology enables a better education for all. Participate to win cash prizes and take advantage of unique recruiting opportunities. Winning teams and individuals could win up to $25,000 and earn a place on the United States team competing in Korea in Summer 2007. Finalists will also have the opportunity to attend exclusive job fairs and interview with top companies in the regional finals. Students from around the world can compete in nine different categories: Digital Arts: ? Photography: In a team of up to two members, create a photo essay of up to ten pictures giving a perspective on the theme, ?technology enables a better education for all.? ? Short Film: Groups of up to four members produce a short film presenting a view on the theme. ? Interface Design: Teams of up to two members create a compelling and innovative user interface for an application. Skills Challenges: ? Project Hoshimi Programming Battle: Individuals or pairs solve real life problems online and see your solutions played out in a virtual 3D environment. ? IT Challenge: Individuals demonstrate the art and science of developing, deploying, and maintaining IT systems that are efficient, functional, robust and secure. ? Algorithm: Individuals can highlight their problem-solving skills in a series of brain teasers, coding challenges, and algorithmic puzzles. Technology Solutions: ? Software Design: Initially individual competition of coding challenges to lead to team competition at the national and world-wide levels. COMPETITION OPEN! ? Embedded Development: Teams of 3-4 individuals design and build an Windows Embedded CE 6.0 operating system image. ? Web Development: Teams of up to 4 students create a Web Service on the .Net Framework 2.0. All competitions begin November 15 (except the Software Design competition, which is already open). Register now at www.imaginecup.com or www.imaginecup.us!!! Use the code, IC07US0105, to let them know how you heard about Imagine Cup. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Kristin Wang (Microsoft Student Partner) at kmw7d@virginia.edu. Kristin Wang University of Virginia, Computer Science Major Microsoft Student Partner kmw7d@virginia.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.cs.Virginia.EDU/pipermail/ugrads07/attachments/20061025/6a9ef1cd/attachment.htm From horton at cs.virginia.edu Sun Oct 29 22:04:09 2006 From: horton at cs.virginia.edu (Tom Horton) Date: Sun Oct 29 22:04:18 2006 Subject: [Ugrads07] info on CS Spring schedule Message-ID: <45456BA9.9090409@cs.virginia.edu> Computing students: Here is some info about the spring course schedule. 1) We believe the COD for CS courses is now in fact correct. If I hear differently, I'll let you know ASAP! 2) CS 462, Databases, does have a time-conflict with CS340's lab. Unfortunately, despite efforts to resolve this, it can't be fixed and students won't be able to take both of these. If you're a 3rd year BSCS or CpE major, consult your advisor to see if you want to delay CS340 until your 4th year. 3) At the end of this are descriptions of some of the new courses being taught this spring. (Except for CS 351, Malware -- I didn't get a description for it.) 4) Prof. Skadron's course CS433 counts as a computer architecture elective for SEAS BSCS majors (i.e. Engineering CS majors, not CpE majors) who are using the most recent rules and want to take something besides ECE435. This is a modified version of the course he taught last year, CS 454. Right now we don't think you can get credit for both CS433 and ECE435. 5) We've submitted a request to get CS453 to count towards the Engineering Business minor. I'll post news about this when I hear the outcome. 6) BACS students who have not taken CS150 yet should take it this spring. It's not offered in the fall term. 7) Reminder: CS390 is now taught as CS290, and all 2nd year SEAS Computer Science majors must take it in their 2nd year. (It's not required of CpE or BACS students, and in fact doesn't count as an elective for them.) Last year's website is here: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~horton/cs390/ If you're a third year and did not take CS290 last year, take it this year. 8) CS494, Object-oriented Design, is likely to be taught next summer by me (Prof. Horton). This counts as a CS elective, and the pre-req is CS216. It's a software course focusing on design issues, including design patterns, UML, etc. It will run in the 5-week session that starts around July 12. Course descriptions that I have are listed below. If you have other questions, consult your advisor. I may post follow-ups to this if there other things you should know. Tom Horton (for the CS department) ==================================== Here's a description of Prof. Skadron's CS433. Advanced Computer Architecture will teach the concepts necessary to understand the architecture and organization of current high-performance microprocessors (such as pipelining, dataflow, branch prediction, and out of order execution), with a special focus on preparing students to understand the challenges presented by highly multicore chips. Prereq: CS 333 ================================= Prof. Marty Humphrey's course CS 451: Distributed Systems is described here: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~humphrey/cs451/ It *is* open to undergrad students (there was a mistake in the COD earlier). You must take CS414 (operating systems) at the same time as CS451 if you haven't already had it. ================================== CS 494: Computational Science & Engineering 1. The course will introduce computational science to students from the perspective of a problem solving environment, e.g. Matlab (Mathworks) or the open-source Octave (Gnu Project). Prerequisites: To ensure a minimum basic preparation there are two prerequisites, two semesters of calculus and some programming experience (language not an issue). Topics: . Computer basics, numerical issues, memory limits, etc. . Software basics, programming in the abstract, complexity and O() notation, flow control, IO, programming in a problem solving environment (Matlab) . Numerical Methods; o Solution of systems of linear and nonlinear equations. o Functional optimization. o Solution of linear and nonlinear ODEs and PDEs. . Simulation and modeling (problem, theory, model, implementation, assessment). . 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