Month: November 2011
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Talk: Stochastic Graph Grammars, Oates, 11/11/11
EE Graduate Seminar Stochastic Graph Grammars Prof. Tim Oates Associate Professor of Computer Science Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC 11:30am Friday November 11, ITE 231, UMBC Many important domains are naturally described relationally, often using graphs in which nodes correspond to entities and edges to relations. Stochastic graph grammars compactly represent probability distributions over…
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Summer research in cybersecurity and trustworthy systems
The Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) will sponsor 20 undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience located at TRUST partner campuses: UC Berkeley, Cornell University, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University. These students will work with graduate student and faculty mentors throughout the summer performing research…
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UMBC Alumnus helps develop Apple's latest technology
If you were among the millions who bought the new iPhone 4S, then you can thank Dr. Harry Chen, the UMBC alumnus who helped develop the phone’s most notable new feature: Siri. For those not among the millions, here’s a bit of background: Siri is a virtual assistant that responds to voice commands. “She” can…
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talk: Cyber Security Situation Awareness and Impact Assessment, 10:30am Tue 11/8
Cyber Security Situation Awareness and Impact Assessment: Issues, Models and Applications Dr. Gabriel Jakobson Altusys Corporation, Princeton NJ 10:30-11:30am 8 November 2011, ITE 325 Cyber attacks committed against IT networks and services have profound impact both on ongoing mission and future missions, whose operations are based on these networks and services. The attacks, by exploiting…
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Faculty Profile: Professor Ryan Bergeron
Professor Ryan Bergeron has been a lecturer of Computer Science at UMBC since Spring 2008. Currently the Technical Director for UMBC's Women's Volleyball team, Bergeron's research interests lie at the intersection of athletics and technology. Questions like “How do I make coaches understand what their players are doing better” and “How can we make athletes…
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Remotegrity: First Voter-Verifiable Internet Voting for Public Office
Some of this text was adapted from a press release and a post from the Scantegrity blog UMBC Professor Alan Sherman, UMBC alumnus Rick Carback (Ph.D. 2010) and many former and current UMBC students helped to develop Scantegrity, an an open source election verification technology for optical scan voting systems. In 2009, their Scantegrity II…
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talk: Marti Hearst on Natural Search User Interfaces, 12pm Fri 11/8, ITE 459, UMBC
Human-Centered Computing Speaker Series UMBC Information Systems Department 'Natural' Search User Interfaces Professor Marti Hearst School of Information University of California, Berkeley 12:00-1:00pm Friday 18 November 2011, ITE 459 What does the future hold for search user interfaces? Following on a recently completed book on this topic, this talk identifies some important trends in the…
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14 CSEE Graduate Students Admitted to Candidacy for Doctoral Degree
The Department wishes to extend its congratulations to the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering graduate students that were recently admitted to candidacy for the doctoral degree. The following students were recognized at the Doctoral Candidates Recognition Reception that was held last Tuesday, November 1st in the UC Ballroom: Computer Science David Chapman Mentor: Dr.…
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CSEE students to present research at upcoming symposiums
CSEE Students Joe Tuzo (CMSC), JJ Seymour (CMSC) and Varish Mulwad (CMSC) will present papers at the AAAI FAll Symposium on November 4-6 in Arlington, Virginia. Yasaman Haghpanah (CMSC) will present her research at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing on November 9-12 in Portland, Oregon. Joe Tuzo (CMSC BS '11) and JJ…
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Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin to speak at National Electronics Museum
On November 15, Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin, assistant professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, will speak at the National Electronics Museum. Dr. Mohsenin runs UMBC's Energy Efficient and High Performance Computing Lab , where she works on developing highly accurate, low-power communication and healthcare devices. The talk, which is hosted by the Baltimore Chapter of…