Month: October 2012
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Computer Science Mini-Summit reveals trouble with high school CS curricula
Filling the Black Hole On August 8, 2012, Computer Education for the 21st Century’s Computer Science Education Mini-Summit revealed the problem with high school Computer Science curricula, and, more importantly, what’s being done to fix it. Photos: Shelby Clarke “High School is a black hole for most students with respect to Computer Science,” says Jan…
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CSEE professor Tinoosh Mohsenin to speak at Grace Hopper conference, 10/3
Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 3rd, Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin will speak at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference at the Baltimore Convention Center. She will talk about a "A Many-core Platform for Intelligent Biomedical Systems". Her presentation will be on "Data Intensive Computing" in the New Investigators session starting at 10:45 am. For more…
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List of tech companies at UMBC job fair, 10/3
Don’t miss UMBC’s largest job fair of the year, tomorrow, Wednesday, October 3rd from 11:30 to 3:30 in the RAC. Over 125 companies will be in attendance, many that are looking for Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering majors to join their teams. Here’s a list of some of the technology companies that will…
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CSEE alumna Kyla McMullen becomes first U Michigan African American woman to earn CS Ph.D.
One of a Kind A Computer Science alumna becomes the first African-American woman in history to get a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. “Bittersweet.” That’s how Kyla McMullen (CS, B.S. ’05) describes what it feels like to be the first African American woman at the University of Michigan to graduate with…
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MS defense: Using Mobile Data Collectors to Federate Clusters of Disjoint Sensor Network Segments
11am Tue 10/2: Bhuvana Kalyanasundaram will defend his MS thesis on Using Mobile Data Collectors to Federate Clusters of Disjoint Sensor Network Segments at 11:00am on Tuesday October 2 in room ITE 346 at UMBC
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UMBC CSEE Department is hiring new Computer Science professors
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department invites applications for several non-tenure track positions in Computer Science at the rank of Lecturer and Professor of the Practice, to begin in Spring 2013 (January 2013) or Fall 2013 (August 2013). Candidates with interest and experience in all Computer Science areas…
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CS alumna Stephanie Hill ('86) to be honored at UMBC's Outstanding Alumni of the Year Awards
Computer Science alumna (’86) Stephanie C. Hill will be honored at this year’s Outstanding Alumni of the Year Awards on October 11, 7:30 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Hill is the president of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions-Civil division. In May, she submitted a guest post to the Washington post entitled…
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Meet the new professors in UMBC's CSEE Department
New Kids on the Block The Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department welcomes three new professors starting Fall 2012. Learn what makes them tick. Nilanjan Banerjee Though technology has become an essential resource for many, it’s using up more and more of another kind of resource: energy. Not only is energy production costly, but it’s…
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Environmentally Aware
New CSEE assistant professor Nilanjan Banerjee works on building renewable energy-driven devices. Though technology has become an essential resource for many, it’s using up more and more of another kind of resource: energy. Not only is energy production costly, but it’s not infallible. For a generation that’s come to rely on technology, what do we…
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Visualize This
New CSEE assistant professor Jian Chen creates visualizations to represent large data sets. Few things are more daunting than an excel spreadsheet full of data. Even scientists can react to massive data sets with blank stares. That’s where the work of new CSEE assistant professor Jian Chen comes into play. As a designer of visualization…