Month: June 2012
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Business Intelligence Internship
Business Intelligence Internship (6/25/2012) Optimal Solutions Group LLC (“Optimal”) has an opening for a Business Intelligence (BI) Intern at its offices at the University of Maryland’s Research Park at M-Square. This BI intern will assist research and IT personnel on multiple projects. Optimal differentiates itself from other public policy research and technical assistance firms by…
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Ph.D. defense: Fatih Senel on Relay Node Placement for Federating Segmented Wireless Sensor Networks
2pm 7/10: Fatih Senel will defend his Ph.D. dissertation, Relay Node Placement for Federating Segmented Wireless Sensor Networks, at 2:00pm on Tuesday, July 10.
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MS defense: Integrating Domain Knowledge in Supervised Machine Learning to Assess the Risk of Breast Cancer Using Genomic Data
9am 6/29:Aniket Bochare will defend his MS Theses on Integrating Domain Knowledge in Supervised Machine Learning to Assess the Risk of Breast Cancer Using Genomic Data
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Computer Science Alumni on working at Google
It's got a bowling alley, a piano in the lobby, a T-Rex skeleton, and eighteen cafeterias. It might sound like a theme-park, but it's the Googleplex, a.k.a. Google headquarters, located in Mountain View, California. This extremely enlightened workplace, which features a slew of employee benefits like a free shuttle to work, laundry services, and even…
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Computer Science Alumnus, Harry Chen, featured in UMBC Magazine
Photo Courtesy UMBC Magazine In its latest issue, dubbed "Tech Trekkers", UMBC Magazine features Computer Science alumnus Harry Chen, one of the key players in the development of the iPhone 4S's digital assisant, Siri. While you may have heard about Harry through an article we posted last year, the UMBC Magazine article goes deeper into…
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Meet the Students: Yatish Kumar Joshi
Originally from Almora, India, Yatish came to UMBC in 2009 to pursue his Master's in Computer Engineering. When he's not studying, Yatish likes to run, play disc golf, and read thriller novels. About Yatish… When did you know you wanted to study Computer Engineering? I pursued a Bio/Math track in high school and wanted…
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Lego Turing Machine
This video is a short documentary about the LEGO Turing Machine built by Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. They built the device for CWI's exposition "Turings Erfenis" in honor of Alan Turings one hundredth birthday this year and to demonstrate how simple a "universal computing device"…
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Integrated Distributed-Bragg-Reflector Thermally Tunable Quantum Cascade Lasers
10am 6/22: Liwei Cheng will defend his Ph.D. dissertation on the Fabrication and Operation of Integrated Distributed-Bragg-Reflector Thermally Tunable Quantum Cascade Lasers.
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Ahmad Abbas takes home DIY/Hacker prize at Baltimore Hackathon
In its second year, the Baltimore Hackathon invites teams or individuals to build a hardware or software project from start to finish. Sporting the slogan "Meet People. Build Stuff. Have Fun.", this year's competition was held in Tide Point from June 8–10. Among the more than ninety participants was UMBC student Ahmad Abbas, who took…
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Meet the Students: Kavita Krishnaswamy
Born in Tamil Nadu, India and raised in Columbia, MD, Kavita got her B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics. In 2001, Kavita joined UMBC's graduate program in Computer Science to pursue her Ph.D. When she's not studying, Kavita likes to watch movies and listen to audio books. About Kavita… When did you know you…