Month: August 2012
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Internship: Web Developer for MD FiRST
Photo Courtesy governor.maryland.gov Motorola Solutions is looking for an intern to work on the state's new Maryland FiRST website. Maryland FiRST, or Maryland First Responders Interoperable Radio System Team, will connect Maryland's first responders over a secure 700 MHz radio system. The following is a job description, taken from a UMBC News post: It will…
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Northrop Grumman and UMBC's Cync program a success after first year
Photo Courtesy bioparks.aurp.net A year ago, Northrop Grumman partnered with bwtech@UMBC to form the Cync program with the goal of “identifying, developing, and commercializing technologies that will meet the cybersecurity needs of the DOD, DHS, DOJ and Intelligence communities,” says the website. Since then, the program has supported five technology startups—AccelerEyes, Five Directions, KoolSpan, Oculis…
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Robot stock trader loses $400M in 45 minutes
Bugs in Knight Capital Group’s algorithmic trading software lost $400M in 45 minutes, distrupted the markets, and caused the company to lose 75% of its own value.
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Getting to Know CSEE at UMBC
Welcome class of 2016! We're so glad you chose to study Computer Science or Computer Engineering at UMBC! Now that you're here, we thought you might like a little tour of our department so that you can make the most of the next four years. We don't promise they'll be easy, but we do promise…
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Forbes names Baltimore one of "America's Coolest Cities"
We’ve known it all along, but now it’s official: we’re cool. At least, Forbes thinks so. The magazine rated the country’s 65 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Metropolitan Divisions and came up with a list of the top 20 coolest cities in America. Among the expected winners like New York, NY (#10), San Francisco, CA…
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Dinghade MS defense: Approach to Unwrap a 3D Fingerprint to a 2D Equivalent
10am 8/8: Ravikiran Dighade will defend his MS thesis, “An Approach to Unwrap a 3D Fingerprint to a 2D Equivalent”, at 10:00am on 10:00am Thursday, 2 August 2012 in ITE 352, UMBC.