June 4, 2007

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OPPORTUNITIES
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2007 UCSD Data Mining Contest
The UCSD Data Mining Contest offers students a chance to test their data mining skill on a real-world data set. The contest runs from May 18 through July 18. This year's contest focuses on two Real Estate tasks: Refinance Prediction: Predict the probability that a residence will be refinanced; Sale Price Prediction: Predict the sale price of properties that have sold in the 2005-2006 period. There are many reasons to participate:

• Practical experience is the best way to learn
• The winner of each contest/division will receive prize money — a total $4000 is up for grabs
• Success in the competition looks great on a resume (graduate admissions, jobs, fellowships)

All undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers studying full-time at an accredited US college or university may enter and compete for prizes. See http://mill.ucsd.edu for details.

We are looking for undergraduate (junior or higher) or graduate students who will be participating in a usability study conducted by student and faculty researchers in Computer Science Department at Oregon State University. The goal of this study is to understand how people learn about an open source project that is new to them. Details.

Free pizza, a guest presentation called "Tracking TV Viewing Habits with Open Source" and the ACM officer elections are happening Thursday, June 7th at 5:30pm and you are invited!

Who: You and Aaron Harsh
What: Pizza, a guest speaker and ACM officer elections
When: Thursday, June 7th, 2007 at 5:30pm
Where: Kelley Engineering Center Room #1007
Why: Warm food, cool tech and the future of ACM

Aaron will talk about how Rentrak leverages open source tools to report on billions of consumer transactions, and how Rentrak maintains consumer privacy while still providing demographic-level viewership detail to networks and advertisers. Rentrak Corporation builds systems to track national box office ticket sales, television views, and DVD rentals at the consumer level.

Also, Aaron mentioned that Rentrak is looking to hire talented graduates. So, bring a resume if you are graduating soon.

Following the talk the ACM officer elections will be held. Positions are open to any computer science student at Oregon State University. The ACM is responsible for events like the senior dinner, reception, EECS graduation, and guest speakers.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Monday, June 4, 1-3 pm, KEC 3087. MEng FINAL ORAL EXAM - Kurt Cui. Major Professor: Gabor Temes; Committee: Pallavi Dhagat, Albrecht Jander. Details.

Thursday, June 7, 8:30-10:30 am, KEC 3114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Peter Hogan. Major Professor: Ted Brekken; Co-Major Professor: Annette von Jouanne; Committee: Jimmy Eggerton; GCR: David Hackleman. "A Linear Test Bed for Characterizing the Performance of Ocean Wave Energy Converters." Details.

Friday, June 8, 12-2 pm, KEC 2087. MEng FINAL ORAL EXAM - Lou Hu. Major Professor: Terri Fiez; Co-Major Professor: Kartikeya Mayaram; Committee: Roger Traylor. Details.

Friday, June 8, 2-4 pm, KEC 1005. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Marjorie Plisch
Major Professor: Terri Fiez; Committee: Roger Traylor, Kartikeya Mayaram; GCR: Lung-Kee Chen. "A Practical Implementation of Self-efficacy Theory to Improve the Engineering Curriculum." Details.

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JOBS
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Don't forget to check out the AfterCollege job site, tailored especially for our EECS students.

Summer Help Wanted: Lab Technician. Microtech Instruments is in need of a lab technician with good computer skills. The applicant should have an understanding of basic electronics and optics. Physics and Electrical Engineering background is preferred. Applicant will be developing control programs for optical instrumentation. Familiarity with LabView software package is a plus. Details.

Application Engineer needed. Fianium Inc. is seeking a professional to fill in the full time position of laser application engineer. Working closely with customers, developing applications for ultrafast fiber laser systems. Establishing effective communication channels between prospective customers and product development organization at Fianium. Designing and conducting test experiments. Details.

Aerospace Summer Internship Opening Immediately!!! We are seeking a computer science intern who is interested in working for Tectura Aerospace for the summer. Must have an excellent proficiency in Open Source or any flavors of UNIX. Programming skills are a plus. Will be working on a variety of projects ranging from testing, development and database queries for our clients. Details.

Silicon Image is seeking candidates interested in analog, high-speed, low-voltage circuit design internship. Strong background in analog, high frequency, low voltage circuit design in CMOS technology is required. Candidate will be working with senior engineers on one or more projects involving in high speed, mixed signal circuits used in data communications. Details.

FACTORY AUTOMATION ENGINEER. This is a full time, regular position. The person hired will act as a resource for assigned area to internal customers. The individual will be responsible for maintaining existing process tool communication, existing MES system, performing modifications to existing programs and adding functionality to the existing MES. Details.

Intel will be in the Career Services conducting an informational session on 6/8 at 10 AM, following will be interviews. If you are interested in this internship, please attend. You are invited to apply to join the Hillsboro Oregon team of Silicon Design Validation Engineers for a nine to twelve month internship. This is an exciting and challenging position as it involves comprehending product software, silicon architectures and customer applications for Intel Architecture Processors and Chipsets. In this position, you will be responsible for devising test strategies and developing tests to completely exercise all features of the silicon and execute those tests in a highly instrumented, specialized test environment. Details.

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