Month: March 2012

  • In the News: driverless cars and digital intersections

    The buzz about driverless cars erupted after Google received a patent for the technology in December of last year. Since then, the project has been steadily moving forward. A few days ago, Google started testing their vehicles on Nevada roads, following approval by the state’s Legislative Commission. With the inevitability of autonomous transportation creeping closer,…

  • He dances, he climbs, he teaches Computer Science: Meet Max

    Meet Max, a Teaching Assistant who loves climbing mountains, swing dancing, and Artificial Intelligence. “I’ve never been bored in my life,” says Maksym Morawski (call him Max), a Computer Science graduate student who spends most of his free time scaling mountains. Originally from Silver Spring, Max moved to Baltimore in 2006 to study Computer Science…

  • talk: Spectrum Wars: LightSquared vs. GPS, 11:30am Fri 2/2

    EE Graduate Seminar Spectrum Wars: LightSquared vs. GPS Professor Chuck LaBerge Professor of the Practice, CSEE Dept/UMBC 11:30am-12:45pm Friday, 2 March 2012, ITE 231 The radio-frequency spectrum is a limited resource. Within the US, commercial use of the spectrum is administered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), while government use of the spectrum is administered…