Month: April 2011
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Semantic Analysis of XML Schema Matching for B2B (Dissertation Defense)
PhD Dissertation Defense Announcement A Semantic Analysis of XML Schema Matching for B2B Systems Integration Jaewook Kim 11:00am Thursday, 21 April 2011, ITE 346 One of the most critical steps to integrating heterogeneous e-Business applications using different XML schemas is schema matching, which is known to be costly and error-prone. Many automatic schema matching approaches…
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talk: Cybersecurity Threat is Real (new time: 10am)
The Threat is Real Sherri Ramsay Director, NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center 10:00am Friday 22 April 2011, 229 ITE Sherri Ramsay, the Director of the National Security Agency's National Threat Operations Center, will present an overview of contemporary issues in cybersecurity entitled "The Threat is Real". The NSA Threat Operations Center monitors the operations of the…
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FTP hits middle age
FTP, the File Transfer Protocol, is forty years old today. rfc114, the request for comments that defined the original FTP protocol, was published on April 16, 1971. FTP is one of the oldest Internet standards and remains important today, mostly through its descendants, like SFTP.
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Visionaries in IT Forum May 4: Catherine Kuenzel of Northrop Grumman
Catherine Kuenzel of Northrop Grummon will speak on Your Future in Emerging Technologies as part of the UMBC Visionaries in Information Technology Forum on May 4, 2011. Her talk will cover emerging technologies in health, homeland security, cyber security and renewable energy. Kuenzel is the the Vice President of Federal Mission Programs for the Civil…
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CSEE IT Jobs Summer 2011 and Beyond
The CSEE Department at UMBC has IT job positions available. The positions include a Web Administrator and System Administrator. Full descriptions for each position below. Details include how to apply and what information is expected to be provided. Student Web Administrator position. This position is a hybrid of providing support for the CSEE Web portals,…
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UMBC Google CS4HS Teacher Development Workshop
UMBC will host a three-day in-service training workshop for 35 Maryland high school computer science teachers sponsored by Google. The UMBC CS4HS Workshop will be held 17-20 July 2011 at UMBC's campus in suburban Baltimore. Workshop attendees will have the opportunity to share ideas for energizing the teaching of computer science in Maryland high schools…
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Symposium on Open Government Knowledge
CSEE Professors Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi are helping to organize a symposium this fall on Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges that will be held in Arlington Virginia sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The symposium will address the technical and social challenges involved in publishing public government data…
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Dissertation Defense: Towards Relational Theory Formation from Undifferentiated Sensor Data
Dissertation Defense Towards Relational Theory Formation from Undifferentiated Sensor Data Marc Pickett 10:00am Monday, 18 April 2011 ITE 325b, UMBC Human adults have rich theories in their heads of how the world works. These theories include objects and relations for both concrete and abstract concepts. Everything we know either must be innate or learned through…
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Linux is twenty years old this year
Linux will be twenty years old this summer. On August 26, 1991 Linus Torvalds posted a message to the comp.os.minix newsgroup that started like this. "Hello everybody out there using minix. I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been…
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UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference schedule, Sat 4/30
The UMBC's Fifth Digital Entertainment Conference will be held on Saturday, April 30th. Every year, the UMBC Game Developer's Club invites speakers from area game companies to share their knowledge and experience. One of the strenghts of the UMBC program in Graphics, Animation and Interactive Media (GAIM) is its strong ties to game development studios…