Month: July 2011
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Maryland's cybersecurity portfolio
The Washington Post had a recent story on how Maryland is positioning itself to take advantage of increased interest in cybersecurity, Maryland sees its moment in cybersecurity. The article discusses the cybersecurity incubator in UMBC’s research Park. “The state has had no trouble attracting well-known contractors  many of whom are based in Northern Virginia.…
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Six hottest IT jobs
CIO magazine has an article that identifies what they think are the the six hottest new IT jobs. They used an admittedly unscientific method of reviewing listing on IT job sites and talking to IT executives to find the types of jobs with good growth potential and are resistant to outsourcing and economic downturns. “IT…
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Clinical-Genomic Analysis for Disease Prediction, MS defense
MS Thesis Defense Clinical-Genomic Analysis for Disease Prediction Darshana Dalvi 10:00am 6 July 2011, ITE 346 Recent advances in genomic research have generated vast amounts of information that can help identify individuals who differ in their susceptibility to a particular disease or response to a specific treatment. This information may offer solutions for the treatment…
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Talk: Passive House; what is it and how does it work?
Passive House; what is it and how does it work? Brian Uher, ECORE Living 4:00pm Wednesday 20 July 2011 MD Clean Energy Technology Incubator, UMBC South Campus Brian Uher will discuss the engineering and design principles behind Passive House – a rigorous building performance standard that ECORE Living is deploying in the Mid-Atlantic region. The…
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Khan Academy does Computer Science
The Khan Academy is starting to publish a series of short instructional videos on computer science topics. The Introduction to Programming and Computer Science category currently has just 18 videos and these are all on basic programming topics in Python. Salman Khan's popular Khan Academy site has more than 2100 short videos covering "everything from…