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ACM officership is a great way to be involved in your CSE community. Not only does it provide great visibility within the department and many opportunities for building relationships, it also gives you a lot of time with industry recruiters and engineers.

This year, all seven positions are available!

As last year, we’ll do voting in a staggered format — voting for chair will be open for about 24hrs, then for vice-chair and so on down the list. This means that you can be considered for more than one position if you are interested. We feel this is the most fair way of establishing officers.

Please nominate either yourself or a friend or both! If you are interested in being a candidate, please send the position(s) you are interested in, a recent picture and a short blurb to ln@cs.washington.edu If you are nominating a friend, send their e-mail address and they will get further instructions.

Positions:

• Chair: corporate fundraising, event planning, meeting facilitation
• Vice-Chair: corporate fundraising, event planning
• Membership Coordinator: e-mail and membership list updating, membership evangelism, outreach
• Internal Relations Officer: meeting note-taking, communication with faculty, staff, student body
• Treasurer x2: coke closet management, money deposits, budget balancing
• Web Master: event posting, website management

Nominations close Monday April 21st. We will have a short Q&A session that day (time/place TBA) and voting will open Tuesday.

I hope the lovely but fickle spring weather has replenished your
creative juices because we need some department t-shirts!

The basic idea: you submit a design to Felix by
April 23rd and everyone votes for their favs in the following week.

We need a high-quality vector graphic that’s ready for print (each
color a different layer, scalable, etc.) Feel free to re-submit a
design, collaborate on ideas or submit more than one. On the 23rd,
we’ll have all the designs up and allow CSE students, faculty, and staff
to vote on what they like best. The contest’s grand prize is, of course,
the pride and satisfaction of having your work worn by the students,
faculty, and staff of this department.

Need some ideas? Check out last year’s designs.

Again, please e-mail your submissions to Felix by the 23rd.

Do you enjoy the thrill of solving puzzles in a competitive team environment? Do we have a great event for you! It’s called Google Puzzles and it’s a a fun and challenging competition where you’ll work with 4 other team members to solve mind-bending puzzles. Not only will you have a lot of fun, but you’ll also have the potential to win some great prizes.

Do you have what it takes? Join us for Google Puzzles on April 16th from 5-8pm.

Please REGISTER for this event today! Teams of FIVE are strongly encouraged. Please choose a team name with friends and then each register here using that name. Independents will be placed in groups of five.

Please note that we will need to close registration about one week before the event, or when we reach capacity for the room.

The February Spotlight Speaker event is going to be a panel session
on the topic of Technology Transfer, tailored specifically for the members of the UW community. Have you ever wondered how laboratory technologies and techniques become commercial products and practices? Is there a technology that you want to license and/or commercialize, or is this a future possibility? Are you interested in how start-up companies are formed? Are you aware of your legal rights and responsibilities throughout this process?

Answers to all of these questions, as well as many others, will be addressed by a panel of three individuals who are involved in different apects of the technology transfer process:

• Patrick Shelby, the Technology Manager of Engineering in the UW TechTransfer office, will provide an overview of the steps of the technology transfer process.
• Jim Roberts, the Business Development Officer of the UW TechTransfer office and head of the newly-developed LaunchPad initiative, will talk about how the TechTransfer office can help UW innovators with their start-up companies.
• Karl Hermanns, the managing partner of the Seattle IP law firm Seed IP, an adjunct professor in the UW school of law, and an advisory board member to the Bioengineering Department’s program in technology commercialization, will talk about the legal dimension of technology transfer.

After each speaker introduces his involvement with technology transfer and relates his own experiences with the process, the panel will be open to questions from the audience.

When: February 20, 2008 from 5-7pm
Where: 248 Schmitz
http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/northwest.html?SMZ
jeff.chamberlain@gmail.com
FOOD AND DRINKS WILL BE PROVIDED!!

Apple’s Coming to Campus

Apple Informational Session
February 19, 2008 @ 5:30pm
Microsoft Atrium – Paul Allen Center for Computer Science

Apple Campus Interviews
February 20, 2008
Paul Allen Center for Computer Science

Interviews will taking place for the following positions:

• Full-time Software Engineering
• Software Engineering Internships
• Software Applications Internships
• Hardware Internships
• iPod Internships

Winterfest will be happening in the HUB on Thursday Feb 21st from 6 – 8:30pm. It’ll be a great opportunity to show everyone just how good you are at pool or table tennis or bowling or DDR. An $8 ACM membership gets you in free, or you can give us $6 at the door. There’ll be dinner and beer (for those above 21)!