Month: April 2011
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MS defense: A Framework for GPU 3D Model Reconstruction Using Structure-from-Motion
MS Defense A Framework for GPU 3D Model Reconstruction Using Structure-from-Motion Yu Wang 10:00am Thursday, 28 April 2011, ITE 352 A framework for three-dimensional (3D) model reconstruction is described in this thesis. The primary application is scanning forest canopies and assisting scientific applications such as fire hazard evaluation and vegetation biomass estimation, using photos taken…
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MS defense: eXtensible Dynamic Form (XDF) for Supplier Discovery
MS Thesis Defense eXtensible Dynamic Form (XDF) for Supplier Discovery Yan Kang 1:00PM Tuesday, 26 April 2011, ITE 346 Discovery of suppliers (supplier discovery) is essential for building a flexible network of suppliers in a supply chain. The first step for supplier discovery is to collect manufacturing capabilities of suppliers and requirements of customers. In…
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MS defense: Recovering from Soft Node Failures in Wireless Sensor Networks using Neural Networks
MS Thesis Defense Recovering from Soft Node Failures in Wireless Sensor Networks using Neural Networks Shivvasangari Subramani 9:00am Tuesday, 26 April 2011, ITE 346 In the past few years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become important in different applications because of their robustness in hostile environments. WSNs need to perform in a timely manner in…
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MS defense: Graph-Theoretic Approach to Collusion Detection in Multi-Agent Systems
MS Thesis Defense A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Collusion Detection in Multi-Agent Systems Peter Hamilton 9:00am Thursday, 28 April 28 2011, ITE 325B The study of trust and cooperation is a major component of multi-agent systems research. Such work often focuses on how best to estimate the reliability of a speciï¬Âc agent, or how to create…
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MS defense: Feature Extraction using a Hierarchical Growing Neural Gas
M.S. Thesis Defense Announcement Feature Extraction using a Hierarchical Growing Neural Gas Roger Guseman 12:00pm 25 April 2011, ITE 210 Unsupervised, data-driven, automatic feature extraction from image data is an interesting and difficult problem. High dimensional data, such as images, often contain less information than they do data. For an agent to better reason about…
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IT Programmer job
Subject: IT Programmer Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:44:54 -0400 From: Jenifer Mitchell jmitchell at e-structors.com Organization: Integrated waste Many students are looking for jobs after they graduate, but E-Structors has a position waiting for one of your students! E-Structors has made many attempts trying to find applicants for the position of IT Programmer. Unfortunately…
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MS defense: Problem selection of program tracing tasks in an intelligent tutoring system
Master's Thesis Defense Announcement Problem Selection of Program Tracing Tasks in an Intelligent Tutoring System and Visual Programming Environment David Walser 2:00pm Thursday, 28 April 2011, ITE 325b Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have been shown to be an effective supplementary teaching tool or aid for many domains. Applying ITSs in open-ended domains such as computer…
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Demand up for technology graduates
USA Today has an article on the increased recruiting by technology companies, Tech jobs boom like it's 1999. Potential employees are being lured with good salaries, bonuses, and perks, and some predict that almost 150,000 technology jobs will be added in 2011. "Nearly 150,000 tech jobs are expected to be added this year, says Sophia…
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talk: Working Together Apart, 12:00 4/29
Spring 2011 Information Systems Distinguished Lecture Working Together Apart Dr. Judy Olson Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine 12:00pm Friday, 29 April 2011, ITE Lecture Hall VII Our research group has been investigating the factors that make long distance teamwork work. I will review that work and talk about…
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Maryland Cyber Conference and Challenge (MDC3)
The Maryland Cyber Challenge and Conference site is up and student teams can now register for the competition, with the first qualifying round early in September. It is a chance to demonstrate your ability to work in a team and your cybersecurity and problem solving skills. MDC3 is a joint effort between SAIC, UMBC, DBED,…