Month: September 2011
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Citizen Science on the Social and Semantic Web, PhD proposal, Joel Sachs
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Citizen Science on the Social and Semantic Web Joel Sachs 9:00-11:00am Friday 9 September 2011 Room 325b, ITE Building, UMBC A question faced by semantic web developers is how much explicit semantics to include in their ontologies. A typical answer is that it depends on the use case, since different use cases…
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Prof. desJardins receives NSF grant to study teaching computers to follow verbal instructions
Professor Marie desJardins receied a three year grant from NSF's Robust Intelligence program to develop techniques that will permit a computer or robot to learn from examples to carry out multipart tasks specified in natural language on behalf of a user. The project, Teaching Computers to Follow Verbal Instructions, is part of a collaborative effort…
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Microsoft at UMBC Tue 9/6 to discuss internship and full-time positions
Microsoft will be on campus to meet with undergraduate and graduate students interested in internship and full-time positions in the Seattle area. Interested students should come to the the Skylight Room in the Commons between 6:30 and 7:30pm on Tuesday September 6. There are opportunities for Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Information Systems…