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Recruiting for Internships and Full-Time work

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• Dear Professor:
  Hope you are having good time with the summer.
  Currently Acme Packet is looking for entry level and junior level software engineers. Acme Packet makes Session Border Control thats used in VoIP networks (more details found on http://www.acmepacket.com/). Requirements:
  Must be strong in C++. Must have worked with UNIX operating system.
  
  Knowledge of following will be desired: C, Perl, VoIP, SIP, Object Oriented design skills, IPSec, IKE, VxWorks.
  Could you please forward this information among your students. Interested students can send me their resume at abhat@acmepacket.com
  Regards, Avinash Bhat

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• Dear Professor Fawcett:
  Thank you very much for offering to post the requirements. Please do post the following, it also contains the contact email address.
  Entry Level Programming Positions for CS Graduates
  The Murthy Law Firm seeks recent computer science graduates to fill two positions in their Owings Mills, Maryland (a NW suburb of Baltimore) location. Qualified, interested candidates should send their resumes, accompanied by cover letter, to hr@murthy.com with the subject line: Software Position – Software Tester OR Software Position – Programmer Analyst.
  1. Software Tester
  We are looking for an entry-level graduate for this position. This candidate is expected to have a Masters in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, with a GPA of over 3.6, with an interest in a career in Quality Assurance. He/she should have completed coursework in Visual Studio .NET 2005, SQL Server 2005, and Quality Assurance. No prior corporate experience is required. The candidate will be screened for aptitude and .NET skills. The successful candidate will be expected to design, create and run automated as well as manual test suites for proprietary software.
  2. Programmer Analyst
  We are looking for an entry-level graduate for this position. This candidate is expected to have a Masters in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, with a GPA of over 3.6, and have completed coursework in Software Design and Development, Visual Basic, and Visual Studio .NET 2005, SQL Server 2005. No prior corporate experience is required. The candidate will be screened for aptitude and .NET skills. The successful candidate will be expected to design and develop programs in VB.NET and perform other daily maintenance tasks.
  Thank you, and Best Regards, Subha

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• Hello Prof. Fawcett
  Hope you are doing well. Life @ Microsoft is exciting (as always). I am mailing you in regards to a few open positions we have in our team. We are looking for SDEs and SDETs with a strong programming background for a new project in Windows Core Networking. Please let me know if you know of students from SU who might be able to fill this position. The position description (below) was written for experienced candidates but we are willing to consider college hires as well. I would be happy to take resumes and set up interview loops for suitable candidates.
  Thanks very much.
  Sincerely, Ganesh
  Ganesh Srinivasan Program Manager Windows Core Networking ganesh.srinivasan@microsoft.com

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  Position Description:
  The Windows Core Networking Team is looking for an individual that will help deliver a high performance and scalable network subsystem based on the latest hardware offload technologies. The areas of interest are broad and include effective real-world application throughput, CPU utilization, end-to-end latency, effective use of multi-core and power consumption. A key responsibility will be to partner with PM's to select/define the metrics on which the team will focus to ensure success for the desired markets. Analyzing and predicting benchmark results will be a primary role. As such this candidate must have or be able to quickly develop a deep understanding of OS performance functionality such as memory accesses and caching, and context switching. In addition to acquiring a thorough understanding of the Windows networking components. In general a successful candidate must be able to quickly grasp new code. A good understanding of the benchmarks will be needed to acquire, configure, and interpret test results. Knowledge of optimal application behavior will be used to provide guidance to the industry as they modify their applications to take advantage of our system. There will be times of focused work with the IHV’s and their devices. Lab personnel will be available to support this work. The ideal candidate will have a strong desire to understand complex system behaviors with respect to performance and find ways to identify how individual components of the system affect the overall system performance. As such I am looking for a senior individual with a proven track record of effectively working with many constituents. This is a unique position within the Core Networking Team. This will be a great opportunity to deliver on the promise that Windows is the most performant and scalable server class operating system.

Notes for Everyone:

• Unfunded Projects:
  Here is a collection of project statements for you to think about. We will meet every few weeks to discuss your progress. The next meeting will be scheduled soon.
• How to download code from course code folders? - The easiest way to access code is with FTP. Unfortunately, that is available only on campus or using the vpn client provided for registered students at www.its.syr.edu.
  For all former students, I am slowly putting zip archives in the various code folders, so that you can get the entire contents simply by using the "save target as" selection on the right-click context menu in Internet Explorer. If you don't find a zip file and are a former student, send me an email and I will put the archive you want in its code folder.
• My current late policy for all courses is to deduct one point per day after the due date. Last year I capped that at a maximum of ten points deducted. This apparently was not enough incentive, as I had several students submit all the projects in the last couple of days. For that reason I will no longer cap the late fee deduction. So if your project is 20 days late you will have 20 points deducted from your grade for the project. I regret the need for this. Sigh!
  There are a few reasons for which extensions to project due dates are granted, with evidence. They are: illness or family emergency, business trip out of town, and an interview trip, out of town. Advance notice is required for the trips.
• All courses served by this web site require project submissions to be uploaded, using the project upload script linked on every course page, and also linked above. Note that this requires an ECS computer account. This is a user account for the Windows-based college server, and is not the same as the UNIX-based university account that you may use for other things. You can get an ECS account by sending an email request to the ECS help desk using this link: ECS Help Desk, and selecting the Account Request link.
• Visual Studio 2008, Professional, is available for download from MSDN. You need an id and password, which most students will have already, as new students are entered into a database that results in you getting an email from Microsoft with the id and password. If you don't have that, contact the CIT help desk, ECS Help Desk, on the second floor of Link Hall, near the elevator.
  When you download, you get iso images that have to be burned to cds. You can do that in the lab, using cdburn from the command line. Here is a screen shot that shows you how to do that. Also, here is an on-line resource page that tells about other options.
• Here's a folder: Handouts/CompileAndRun that contains information about how to modify your environment in Cmd windows, so you can run all the visual studio tools, like devenv.exe, e.g., Visual Studio. This makes it simple to write compile.bat and run.bat files for your projects.
  That folder contains a startup.bat file, also in CoreTechnologies/StartupBatFile. If you run this batch file from a shortcut, you will have access to all the Visual Studio tools, e.g., compilers, WSDL, XSL, XSD, etc. from the command line. This is necessary, for example, to generate the C# code for a webservice proxy, using WSDL, as we've discussed in class. See the accompanying screenshot to see how to set up the shortcut.
  Note that you may have to modify the paths I've used to match your machine. If you've done all standard installs that may not be necessary. Also, the doskey settings are things I find useful, but you can ignore if you wish.

CSE382 - Algorithms and Data Structures Remediation

• Requirements for CSE382 - Algorithms and Data Structures Remediation:
  1. Projects are due one week before your demo (see Schedule, below).
  2. Complete Laboratory 2 - Conway's Game of Life, in Java, as required in the Spring semester course.
  3. Complete Laboratory 3 - Program Correctness and Efficiency, as specified in the Spring course, but implement using C, C#, or C++.
  4. Complete Laboratory 6 - Klondike, in Java, as required in the Spring semester.
  5. Complete Laboratory 7 - Supermarket, as specified in the Spring course, but implement using C, C#, or C++.
  6. Complete New Laboratory 1 - Directed Graphs, as specified in the handout here, in C#, or C++.
  7. Complete New Laboratory 2 - Trees, as specified in the handout here, in C#, or C++.
  8. Complete New Laboratory 3 - Red-Black Binary Search Trees, as specified in the handout here, in C#, or C++.
  9. Complete one of the following:
     • Laboratory 4 - Relational Databases
     • Laboratory 10 - Bioinformatics
     • Laboratory 11 - Huffman Compression,
     • Laboratory 12 - Mini Search Engine
     using the project statements provided in the Spring semester and here, in C#, or C++.
Note: the new laboratory 2 builds on the code you generate in new laboratory 1, and similarly, the new laboratory 3 builds on your implementation for new laboratory 2.
• Schedules:
  1. Help Session - Jim Fawcett, CST 4-201, most Friday mornings this semester.
  2. Office Hours - Nancy Khoury, CST 3-218, Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00 Noon
  3. 1st demonstration - July 01, CST 4-201, 10:00am
     You may demo as many of your projects as you want. You do not have to demo again any projects that pass.
  4. 2nd demonstration - July 15, CST 4-201, 10:00am
     You must demo all of your projects that have not passed.
  You will be given individual time slots for presentation and oral examination.
• Grading process:
  1. This remediation is pass/fail. Laboratories are graded based on your presentation of your results.
  2. Each laboratory demonstration will be awarded up to ten points, five for your knowledge of the data structures and algorithms required, and five for your implementation and your knowledge of your implementation.
  3. Passing grades will be 60 or above - that is, you must achieve 75% of the maximum possible score of 80 points. There will be no chances to redemo or change your implementation.

CSE681 - Software Modeling and Analysis

• Note: Vikram Ganesh and Aniruddha found a couple of bugs in the CSgrammar prototype. Aniruddha and I have fixed those and he has added line number counting to the prototype to show you a good way to incorporate that using grammar detector actions. That has been uploaded to the College server here.
• A zip file has been placed in Handouts/CSE681/code/CSGrammar so you can download that prototype code.
• Vijay Reddy found an Excellent Tutorial on C# Threads. This will be useful later on this semester.

CSE686 - Internet Programming

• I've put a revised example of Page inheritance files here. This demo completes an earlier demonstation showing how to inherit styles. That now works correctly, and I've added a demonstration of inheriting div structure. You can view the results here

CSE687 - Object Oriented Programming

CSE775 - Distributed Objects

CSE776 - Design Patterns

CSE784 - software Studio

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