Month: September 2012
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Meet the inaugural batch of UMBC's NSF Scholarship for Service scholars
Meet UMBC’s inaugural batch of NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) CyberCorps program scholars. These four B.S., M.P.S. and Ph.D. students will be able to hone their interests in Information Assurance and Cybersecurity through generous full-ride scholarships and opportunities to intern at government organizations. Oliver Kubik Major: B.S. Computer Science '14 Hometown: New Windsor, MD Oliver…
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Join the UMBC ACM Student Chapter
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. UMBC has an active ACM student chapter that is open to all UMBC undergraduate and graduate students of any major. While you do not need to join ACM to be a part of the local chapter, the annual membership dues…
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PhD proposal: Birrane on Virtual Circuit Provisioning in Challenged Sensor Internetworks
9am Fri 9/21: Ed Birrane will present a proposal for his Ph.D. dissertation on Virtual Circuit Provisioning in Challenged Sensor Internetworks, with Application to the Solar System Internet at 9:00am on Friday, September 21, 2012 in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
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UMBC backs new National Cyber Security Hall of Fame
UMBC and our Cyber Incubator@bwtech are founding sponsors of the new National Cyber Security Hall of Fame that will induct its first 11 honorees on October 17 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore. “The Cyber Security Hall of Fame will represent the mission: “Respect the Past – Protect the Future” and will honor the…
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Teaching Innovation: Senior Game Project
Course: CMSC 493: Senior Game Project Professor: Marc Olano, CSEE Associate Professor Course Description: The computer games capstone course is designed to allow students completing the computer science games track to engage in a complete group project development experience. This will help them to integrate the various technical concepts they have learned in earlier courses.…
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Teaching Innovation: Intro to Engineering Science
Course: ENES 101: Introduction to Engineering Science Professor: Chuck Laberge, CSEE Professor of the Practice Anne Spence, Mechanical Engineering Professor of the Practice Course Description: This is the first engineering experience for engineering majors when they arrive on campus. This course meets for two 50 minute lecture periods and one-two hour lab period each week.…
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Marie desJardins in UMBC Magazine
Photo: UMBC Magazine CSEE Professor Marie desJardins' success at the 2012 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament last March was highlighted in the latest issue of UMBC Magazine: "I didn't realize I could be this good at crossword puzzles," says desJardins. She adds that her development as a crossword competitor also highlights the hurdles to bringing more…
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Microsoft kicks off the app challenge at UMBC
Do you want to build a killer Windows8 application? Then head to the Microsoft Win8 App Challenge kickoff tomorrow, Friday September 14, 2012 in ITE 459 from 12-1 p.m. At this information session, you'll learn more about Microsoft's Win8 App Challenge and how from now until October 26th, you can submit up to three Windows…
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talk: Simon on A Novel Dynamic Task Scheduling Environment for High Performance Distributed Systems
1pm Fri 9/21: Tyler Simon will talk about his research on A Novel Dynamic Task Scheduling Environment for High Performance Distributed Systems at 1pm on Friday, september 21st, 2012 in room 227 of the ITE building at UMBC.
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talk: Ҫağatay Demiralp on Computational Brain Connectivity Using Diffusion MRI
1:30p Tue 9/18: Ҫağatay Demiralp will talk about his research on Computational Brain Connectivity Using Diffusion MRI at 1:30pm on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.