Month: September 2011
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Angry birds are attacking the US economy
The Atlantic has a short article on estimating the cost to the US economy of the popular angry birds game available on most smartphones. Their estimate? $1.5 billion dollars a year. "Every March, it is a requirement that every newspaper and website in every town in the United States run a story about how much…
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Henry Sienkiewicz on Cloud Computing in the Government
UMBC CSEE Colloquium Cloud Computing Henry J. Sienkiewicz Chief Information Officer Defense Information Systems Agency 11:30-12:30 Friday, 16 September 2011 Room 231, ITE Building Mr. Henry Sienkiewicz will discuss the opportunities and challenges for using cloud computing in government agencies. Henry J. Sienkiewicz is the Chief Information Officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency.…
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Undergraduate Researcher Profile: Ugonna Ohiri
Ugonna Ohiri is a first year Senior majoring in Computer Engineering. A URA scholar, Ugonna's research deals with standoff chemical detection. To learn more about Ugonna's research pursuits, read his research profile.
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UMBC named NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center
UMBC has been named an NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center following the submission of a proposal by Dr. Marc Olano, professor, and Dr. Shujia Zhou, research associate professor of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department. The NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center Program will provide UMBC with enough high-end GPUs to upgrade the UMBC GAIM (Games, Animation…
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A letter from CSEE Department chair, Dr. Gary Carter
The Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department made significant accomplishments during the 2010-2011 school year. Our undergraduate enrollment grew to 886 students and our graduate enrollment grew to 271 students. Our department produced a total of 16 Ph.D’s during that time period. Our research productivity in terms of research expenditures has reached the level of…
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UMBC students present research at the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning
Six CSEE graduate students will present their research First Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning is a one-day event to be held at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on Friday, 23 September 2011. Its goal is to bring together students taking computational approaches to speech, language, and learning, so that they can…
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POSTPONED: talk: Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing in Optical Fibers and Waveguides
CSEE Graduate Seminar Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing in Optical Fibers and Waveguides Dr. Gary M. Carter Professor of Electrical Engineering Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1-2pm Friday, 16 September, 2011, ITE 227 postponed until later in the Fall Advances in optical fiber and semiconductor technology have progressed to the degree…
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Talk: Genetic information for chronic disease prediction
Genetic information for chronic disease prediction Michael A. Grasso, MD, PhD University of Maryland School of Medicine 1:00pm Friday 23 September 2011, 227 ITE Type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease are commonly occurring polygenic-multifactorial diseases, which are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. The identification of people at risk for these conditions has historically…
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Camilla Hyman joins CSEE staff
Ms. Camilla Hyman recently joined the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Staff as the Business Services Specialist for the department. Ms. Hyman has replaced Ms. Donna Meyers, who retired at the end of Spring 2011. This summer, Camilla Hyman joined the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department as Business Services Specialist–a role that had been…
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talk: Analysis of Brain Network Connectivity in fMRI Data using Spatial Dependence
EE Graduate Seminar Analysis of Brain Network Connectivity in fMRI Data using Spatial Dependence Sai Ma EE PhD Candidate, CSEE Dept, UMBC 11:30-12:45 Friday 9 September 2011, ITE 231 Due to low invasiveness and high spatial resolution, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become popular in neuroimaging field to determine where activity occurs in brain…