Month: October 2011
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Win $50K in the DARPA Shredder Challenge
DARPA has announce another research-relevant competition: the $50,000 Shredder Challenge which invites teams to try to reconstruct virtual shredded documents. "Today’s troops often confiscate the remnants of destroyed documents in war zones, but reconstructing them is a daunting task. DARPA’s Shredder Challenge calls upon computer scientists, puzzle enthusiasts and anyone else who likes solving complex…
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Undergraduate Researcher Profile: Jasmine Jones
Jasmine Jones is a Senior pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies: Human-Computer Interaction in an International Cultural Context. A Meyerhoff and NSA Scholar, Jasmine's research deals with how human factors, like culture, gender, and age, affect the way people perceive and use technology.To learn more about Jasmine's research pursutis,…
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talk: Martineau on domain adaptation for sentiment analysis
CSEE Colloquium Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis Justin Martineau Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1:00pm Friday 4 November 2011, ITE 227 Justin Martineau will describe the results of his PhD dissertation which he will defend later this month. His dissertation research…
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2012 Google Graduate Researchers in Academia of Diverse backgrounds (GRAD) CS Forum
As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging students of underrepresented backgrounds in technology to pursue graduate study, the company will host the 2012 Google Graduate Researchers in Academia of Diverse backgrounds (GRAD) CS Forum. This forum will bring together students who are historically underrepresented in the field to connect with one another and with…
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Undergraduate Researcher Profile: Chitra Gadwal
Chitra Gadwal is a Sophomore majoring in Computer Science. This year, Chitra became involved with a research project dealing with Human Computer Interaction. To learn more about Chitra's research pursuits, read her research profile.
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CMPE Alumna, Angelique Johnson, recognized for new company, MEMStim
Computer Engineering Alumna, Angelique Johnson is making waves with her new company MEMStim, which recently won $27,000 in award money from the Michigan Business Challenge. According to a statement on the University of Michigan’s website, Johnson and her business partners, Christopher Cadotte and Andrew Smith, received $20, 000 for the Pryor-Hale award for best business,…
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Build a better ant in the Google AI Challenge
Google is sponsoring another AI Challenge Competition run by an independent group of volunteers that grew out of the Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo. The competition opens today and invites submissions of programs designed to control ants a simulated colony in competition with other colonies. Ants is a multi-player strategy game…
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talk: Adapt3D: A Framework for Supporting CFD and MHD Modeling, 1pm Fri 10/21 ITE227
Adapt3D: A Framework for Supporting CFD and MHD Modeling Professor John E. Dorband Research Associate Professor and MCC Chief Scientist Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1:00pm Friday 21 October 2011, ITE227 Adapt3D is a software framework that supports 3-D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) modeling on an unstructured…
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Undergraduate Researcher Profile: Sheriff Jolaoso
Sheriff Jolaoso is a Senior majoring in Computer Engineering. His research involves analyzing electroencephalographical (EEG) data in order to find and establish trends between humans under specific testing conditions. To learn more about Sheriff's resarch pursuits, read his research profile.
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talk: Detection of Chemical, Biological and Explosive Materials, 11:30am Fri 10/21
EE Graduate Seminar Detection and Classification of Chemical, Biological, and Explosive Materials: A Brief Overview of Several Cutting-Edge Problem Areas Darren Emge PI and Deputy Branch Chief Laser Standoff Detection Branch US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center 11:30am-12:45pm Friday, 21 October 11, ITE 231 The detection and classification of chemical, biological, and explosive (CBE) materials…