Month: October 2011
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Interdisciplinary Engineering Panel Night, 7pm 10/6
The UMBC ACM Student Chapter is co-hosting Interdisciplinary Engineering Panel Night at 7:00pm on Thursday 6 October 201 in the Commons Skylight Lounge. This free event is open to both undergraduate and graduate students in all engineering disciplines. Students have a chance to hear the perspective of professionals from industry, socializing and expanding their network.…
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Karuna Joshi speaks about Cloud Computing
“I think it’s more than a jargon,” says Karuna Joshi of Cloud Computing, a topic she will discuss this Friday during a Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department Colloquium, “It’s an actual paradigm shift.” Ms. Joshi, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UMBC, has been pursing research on Cloud Computing for the past three…
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Nominate books for UMBC's new student book experience
Read anything interesting lately? Why not nominate it for next year’s new student book experience. UMBC’s summer reading connects new freshmen and transfer students with other students, faculty, and staff at the start of the academic year, providing an intellectually stimulating interaction that welcomes new students into the UMBC community. You can now use a…
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NSF awards UMBC $1.8M for Global Collaboration Engine for Land Change Science
A group of UMBC faculty members was recently awarded a 4-year, National Science Foundation (NSF) grant totaling $1.8 million to pursue work with “Global Collaboration Engine” (GLOBE), a “globally relevant search engine.” “Our objective is to change the way land change scientists do business,” explains Dr. Erle Ellis, associate professor of Geography and Environmental Systems,…
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Undergraduate Researcher Profile: Alexander Morrow
Alexander Morrow is a Sophomore majoring in Computer Science. His research explores predictive model uncertainty. To learn more about Alexander's research, read his research profile.