Events Archive (2010-2011)

Spring 2011 Cooperative Education Colloquium

Friday, June 3, 2011
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Poster Sessions) in UW1-010/020
2:15 PM - 4:30 PM (Orial Presentations) in UW1-010/020/051

Abstract
One of our largest CSS 497 Colloquiums since 2005, this year’s event will be full of exciting individual and industry sponsored projects that our CSS students have been working on for the past couple of quarters.

As an added bonus, three Applied Computing students will also be presenting their research projects at this event.

The event will be broken down into two segments. The first will be a poster session where the student will be available to talk about and answer questions with regards to their project. The second segment will be a formal 10-15 minute oral presentation given by the student in which he/she will further discuss their project.

A detailed schedule can be found here.

Dr. Socha's Faculty Research Presentation

Computer Aided Software Testing, and Biomimicry: Ways to More Effectively Create Software-Enabled Systems

Abstract
My interests, research and teaching is on how to create effective software enabled systems that solve important human needs. This is a holistic design enterprise involving many aspects from technical to social, business to science, quantitative to qualitative. This talk will illustrate two areas that I am focusing on for my research: software testing, and biomimicry. In software testing, I am working with industrial colleagues to explore various aspects of what we are now calling computer aided software testing. This is a simple and effective way of combining the best of what humans do well and what computers do well. One question we are exploring is why some people embrace these techniques, while others do not. In biomimicry, I am exploring how the biomimicry design process is, and could be, used to create better software systems and better organizational processes. There are a variety of ways in which students could be involved in these inquiries, which we can explore during and after the talk.

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Dr. Fukuda's Faculty Research Presentation

Sensor Grid Integration: An Agent-Based Workbench for On-the-Fly Sensor-Data Analysis

Abstract
This research project focuses on integrating wireless sensor networks into grid and cloud computing systems, and gives an agent-based workbench for facilitating on-the-fly sensor-data analysis on top of these computing systems.

Although the emergent popularity of cloud computing has allowed users in SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) and SOHO (small office/home office) to construct their business-specific computing systems with cloud services, the cloud-computing users still encounter some practical difficulties in particular when handling a large amount of sensor data: remote job execution, on-the-fly data analysis with parallelization, and sensor-data delivery.

This research targets frost protection as an example application where tree-fruit growers use a temperature sensor network so as to observe and to possibly predict every overnight transition of their orchard temperatures. While they can use various cloud services including remote storages, computing power, and even programming tools, they still need to address by themselves the following three problems: (1) automating the execution of a temperature-prediction program upon arrivals of new temperature data, (2) accelerating the program execution using cloud-offered programming tools, and (3) forwarding sensor data to the program and saving outputs into file servers. Without proper solutions, tree-fruit growers would end up with repeatedly checking the current orchard temperatures.

For more information, please visit the Distributed Systems Laboratory's Sensor Grid Integration website.

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Dr. Asuncion's Faculty Research Presentation

Managing Information in Software Engineering and e-Science

Abstract
Managing related information is a fundamental task in many contexts. In software engineering, relating the design to requirements is necessary in ensuring that the system to be developed meets customer requirements. In e-Science, identifying the relationships between intermediate data sets is necessary in the repeatability of experiments. Previous work on traceability provided means for tracing across distributed and heterogeneous artifacts across the software development life cycle. Current research investigations entail (1) building traceability support to facilitate change management in software development and (2) applying traceability techniques to the domain of e-Science. This talk will include possible projects within these two threads of research.

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Dr. Olson's Faculty Research Presentation

Computer Vision at UW Bothell

Abstract
Dr. Olson will be giving a brief overview of computer vision and describe some of his recent projects, including terrain mapping for Mars exploration, registration of aerial images, and projective clustering algorithms.

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Dr. Stiber's Faculty Research Presentation

GPU Computing for Neural Simulation

Abstract
How do brain cells grow the interconnections that allow them to perform useful functions for organisms? When neuroscientists create cultures of neurons and allow them to develop networks in artificial settings, they see networks of cells that produce pathological behaviors that seemingly prevent them from doing anything useful.

The UW Bothell Biocomputing Laboratory (BCL) has been developing simulations of this development process to help understand why these experiments don't work like real brains and what can be done to fix this. The enabling technology for these experiments is GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) hardware, which harnesses the number crunching hardware behind video games and animated movies for general-purpose computation. Prof. Stiber will describe student research opportunities in neural modeling, simulation, data analysis, parallel algorithms, and general-purpose GPU software development.

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Dr. Sung's Faculty Research Presentation

Abstract
Kelvin will talk about two threads of his research directions: serious games, and ultra reality.

Serious games is the study of how to design/build applications that integrate the engaging nature of videogames to accomplish real world objectives, objectives that are beyond the traditional “for fun” entertainment purpose. Working with the UW Bothell Office of Admissions and the Center for Serious Play, Kelvin and his students have built a series of games to assist potential visitors to tour UW Bothell campus and to assist new students on their first day on campus. A few current efforts related to this work will be highlighted, including: the tools required for the automation of building serious games, software development process for designing/building serious games, and current/future serious games that will be build.

Ultra reality is the study of how to reconstruct reality remotely based on samples of the real world. In very limited ways, we can already achieve this goal, e.g., we can view videos from a web-cam and observe reality remotely. The objective of our study is to generalize this paradigm by reconstructing the entire 3D world. For example, imagine a webpage showing you a webcam view of a classroom. Now imagine from home you can manipulate and move the webcam to any new positions around the entire classroom with any new orientations and observing what is happening in the classroom right at that moment, life, in real time. Of course, our study is how to accomplish these manipulations without moving any actual cameras. An overview of our current efforts will be presented.

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The Power of Networking

RSVP is Required

Abstract
Knowledge and relationship based mentoring has served Sue Ambler, M.Ed well in her personal and professional life. Whether the mentor experience is face to face or Facebook Ms. Ambler attributes her success to those who have mentored her, those she has mentored and looks forward to the future mentors in her life.

About the Speaker
Sue Ambler, President and CEO of Workforce Development Council Snohomish County, has 30 years of experience in public and private industry throughout the greater Puget Sound area, including 16 years in public K-12 and higher education as both faculty and as a provider of career and academic advising, disability services coordination, outreach, recruitment, crisis management, youth advocacy, and curriculum and accreditation standards development.

Sue has been with the Workforce Development Council Snohomish County since 2003 and has served at the President and CEO from 2006 to present. In addition to Workforce Development duties she is active in the community and is committed to the economic vitality of the Puget Sound region. Some of her current activities include:

United Way Snohomish County Board and 2011 Community Campaign Chair Junior Achievement Snohomish County Board First Robotics Executive Advisory Board Washington Economic Development Council Snohomish County Board Economic Development District Board Puget Sound Regional Council South Snohomish County Chamber of Commerce Board Washington Workforce Association Board Investing in Families Steering Committee Snohomish County Blueprint 2015 Edmonds Community College Presidential Search Committee

Ms. Ambler has a Bachelor’s degree from Washington State University and Master’s degree in Education from University of Washington Bothell.

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CSS Mock Technical Interview Workshop

Microsoft Employee and CSS Alumni (’04), Denise Mosbrucker, will be presenting a CSS Mock Technical Interview Workshop. Learn secrets to Microsoft technical interviews, how to maximize your success in a technical interview, tips, etc.

Denise Mosbrucker has been working at Microsoft for the past two and half years. Currently she works as a Software Development Engineer in Test on Microsoft’s Surface team.

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