Month: July 2011
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Perks help tech startups attract and retain employees
While you can find a treehouse to rent using Airbnb, they also have a mockup of one for their employees to chill in. Last week’s Wall Street Journal had a story, The Perk Bubble Is Growing as Tech Booms Again, on how technology companies compete for employees by offering more and more extravagant perks. “Here…
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PhD defense: Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Finding a Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop Dean Earl Wright III 9:00am Wednesday 26 July 17 August 2011, ITE325 UMBC The field of Artificial Intelligence has seen steady advances in cognitive systems. However, many of these systems perform poorly when faced with situations outside of their training. And as…
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Course Highlights: CMPE 691
CMPE 691: MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) Professor: Dr. Gymama Slaughter, Assistant Professor Semester: Fall 2011 Time: MW 4:00-5:15 Credits: 3 This course exposes graduate students to the latest developments in MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS). MEMS is a rapidly growing field that combines micron-scale mechanical structures with microelectronics circuits, which have many applications in…
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Course Highlights: CMSC 677
CMPE 677: Agent Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems Professor: Dr. Sergei Nirenburg, Professor Semester: Fall 2011 Time: MW 5:30-6:45 Credits: 3 Room: ITE 277 This course teaches students fundamental techniques for developing intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, including: cognitive, logic-based, reactive, and belief-desire-intention architectures; inter-agent communication languages and protocols; distributed problem-solving, planning and constraint…
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Computer science major tops for jobs
Software Development Times reports that Computer Science is the top major for job offers. “Computer science graduates now get more offers of employment than any other major. This is the first time since 2008 that computer science has topped the list: previously, accounting majors had the highest offer rate. In 2011, 56.2% of computer science…
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MS defense: Mitigating Coverage Loss in Wireless Sensor Networks
MS Thesis Defense Distributed Approach for Mitigating Coverage Loss in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor networks Kavin Rathinam Kasinathan 10:00am 15 July 2011, ITE 325b In a heterogeneous wireless sensor network, nodes with different sensing capabilities are dispersed throughout an area of interest. Nodes with similar capabilities are not necessarily collocated. When a node fails, the area…
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Is a smartphone your Internet portal?
Today’s Washington Post article, As smartphones proliferate, some users are cutting the computer cord, describes how smartphones are enabling a “always-on, Internet-on-the-go society”. “A third of all American adults own a smartphone and for many minority and low income users, those mobile devices have replaced computers for Internet access. The findings released Monday by the…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Yelena Yesha
Dr. Yelena Yesha is the Director of the Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA) and the site director of the Multicore Computational Center (MC2), and has been doing exciting research with cloud computing through the centers. To read more about Dr. Yesha’s research pursuits, see her full research profile.
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Curtis Menyuk
Dr. Curtis Menyuk, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, specializes in the theory and simulation of opitcal and photonic systems. A member of UMBC's Computational Photonics Laboratory, he is currently interested in short-pulse lasers and time and frequency transfer networks. "One of the central themes in my career has been an interest in solitons,”…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Tülay Adali
Dr. Tülay Adali, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, specializes in statistical signal processing.Since 1992, Dr. Adali has been the director of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Lab (MLSP-Lab) at UMBC. Currently, she has been working on diagnosing schizophrenia by analyzing functional MRI and other medical imaging data. To read more about…