Month: November 2011
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talk: Christopher Rose (Rutgers): Write or Radiate
Write or Radiate Professor Christopher Rose Rutgers University 1:00pm Friday December 9, 2011, ITE 227 Communication theory researchers do the relatively routine but deeply important work that maintains and expands our increasingly connected society. It is therefore easy to forget that communications research, by its very nature, is more than about telephones and the Internet,…
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MS defense: Sawhney on Analyzing the Growth of Hoeffding Trees
MS Thesis Defense Analyzing the Growth of Hoeffding Trees Mayank Sawhney 12:00-1:30pm Thursday 1 December 2011, ITE 346 Mining high speed data streams has become a necessity because of the enormous growth in the volume of electronic data. In the past decade, researchers have suggested various models for learning in both stationary and concept drifting…
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talk: Wolfson on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1pm Fri 12/2, ITE 227
Silence of the labs: Why are we still commuting the way we did 40 years ago? Professor Ouri Wolfson University of Illinois at Chicago 1:00pm Friday 2 December 2011, ITE 227 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been in research and development since the 70's but their impact so far has been relatively small. In this…
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NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) offers paid Summer internships through their SURF program with opportunities at NIST facilities in Gaithersburg and Boulder. Many of the participating research projects are looking for students majoring in Computer Science or Computer Engineering. The eleven week program starts in the last week of May and provides…
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CSEE Professor, Dr. Anupam Joshi, named Oros Family Professor of Technology
Dr. Joshi has been a faculty member of UMBC’s Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department since 1998. His research focuses on wireless and mobile computing, trust, security, privacy issues in distributed systems, and analytics of social media. He is a core member of UMBC's Ebiquity research group. Congratulations to Dr. Anupam Joshi, who was recently…
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MS defense: Pilz on Approximation of Nonintegral Frequency Moments, 11/30
Masters Thesis Defense Approximation of Nonintegral Frequency Moments Brian Pilz 10:00am 30 November 2011, ITE325b Let a data stream have length m over an alphabet of n letters, with letter i occurring m_i times for i = 1,…,n. For any k, define the frequency moments F_k as F_k = sum_{i=1}^n m_i^k. Alon, Matias, and Szegedy…
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talk: Rutledge on multichannel amplitude compression for speech processing, 11/18
EE Graduate Seminar Time-Varying Amplitude Compression Processing to Preserve and Enhance Spectral Contrast in Speech Signals Dr. Janet C. Rutledge Dean, UMBC Graduate School Vice-Provost for Graduate Education Affiliate Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering 11:30-12:45 Friday, 18 November 2011, ITE 231 Multichannel amplitude compression processing is used to reduce the level variations of speech to fit…
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ENES Students Take Part in AROW Competition at UMBC
This Saturday, November 19, students enrolled in Introduction to Engineering Science (ENES 101) will put robotic vessels to the test during UMBC's first AROW competition. AROW–Academy Robotics on the Water–was developed by Captain Jonathan Russell, Lt. Cmdr. Brian Maggi and Stephen Grenier of the US Coast Guard Academy as an introductory engineering design experience. The…
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Ph.D. Defense: Justin Martineau on Sentiment Analysis, 1:30pm Fri 11/18
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis Justin Martineau 1:30-4:00 Friday, 18 November 2011, ITE 325b, UMBC Sentiment analysis is the automatic detection and measurement of sentiment in text segments by machines. This thesis provides methods to identify, characterize, and isolate the sentiment bearing terms…
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Dr. Yesha named IBM CAS Faculty Fellow of the Year
Congratulations to Dr. Yelena Yesha, professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, for receiving this year's IBM CAS Faculty Fellow of the Year award. The award is a recognition of Dr. Yesha's positive impact on the goals and reputation of IBM, as well as her influence on IBM's Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) as an…