Month: December 2012
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UMBC in the Pan-Am Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship
This week the UMBC chess program will field a team in the 2012 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship which will take place December 27-30 in Princeton, NJ. The UMBC team is shown here along with GM Sam Palatnik (Chess Program Associate Director), Alan Sherman (Chess Program Director and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering)…
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Heidelberg Laureate Forum: laureates meet the next generation
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is an extraordinary opportunity for a group of students and young researchers to interact with some of the greatest minds of Mathematics and Computer Science for a week of scientific exchange and inspiration. It will bring together winners of the Abel Prize, the ACM Turing Award, and the Fields Medal with…
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Public tutorials on high performance computing research and technologies
The Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research is a collaborative research center sponsored by the National Science Foundation with two university partners (UMBC and University of California San Diego), six government, and seven industry members. The Center's research is focused on addressing productivity, performance, and scalability issues in meeting the insatiable computational demands of…
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CSEE Alumni Donald Miner and Adam Shook publish book on MapReduce
UMBC Computer Science Alumni Donald Miner (BS ’06, PhD ’10) (left) and Adam Shook (BS ’09, MS expected ’13) (right) have written a book on the popular MapReduce paradigm that has revolutionized the way collections of computers are used to process large amounts of data in parallel. Their book, MapReduce Design Patterns Building Effective Algorithms…
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PhD defense: Supporting Citizen Science and Biodiversity Informatics on the Semantic Web
10am Fri 12/14: Joel Sachs will defend his dissertation on “Supporting Citizen Science and Biodiversity Informatics on the Semantic Web” at 10:00am on Friday, December 14, 2012 in room 325b in the ITE building at UMBC.
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Teaching Innovation in UMBC's Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering Department
How UMBC’s Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering Department is using innovative teaching techniques to engage and inspire undergraduates. Gone are the days of stuffy lectures and drowsy students. In UMBC’s Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering Department, cutting-edge teaching methods, innovative classroom models, writing intensive courses, and special seminars to increase transfer student success are just…
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CSEE professor Kargupta and co-authors win IEEE 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award
On December 12, CSEE professor Hillol Kargupta will receive the 10-year Highest-Impact Paper Award from the IEEE International Data Mining Conference (ICDM) in Brussels, Belgium. The winning paper—“On the Privacy Preserving Properties of Random Data Perturbation Techniques”—discusses privacy-preserving data mining and it also received the 2003 ICDM Best Paper Award. It is co-authored by former…
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JOB: Summer research experience for undergrads in cybersecurity and privacy
The TRUST Research Experiences for Undergraduates (TRUST REU) is a nine-week summer program in Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trustworthy Systems, was established to promote access to graduate education among undergraduates who have been educationally or economically disadvantaged and who may not have exposure to the academic environment of a research university. The goal of the TRUST…
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JOB: Software Quality Assurance engineer at Symantec (MD)
UMBC Alumnus Steve Rice at Symantec is looking for a new Software Quality Assurance engineer to work on Symantec Critical System Protection product in the Columbia, MD office. This is one of the fastest growing host based intrusion products on the market. If you are interested, contact Steve Rice (). Candidate Requirements for Software Quality…
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JOB: Intern positions at Qualcomm Research, San Diego
Qualcomm's Research & Development team in San Diego has a number of cutting edge projects lined up for next summer and will hire 20+ interns on their team during Summer 2013. The opportunities below are just a section. See the complete list here. Intern Context Analysis and Reasoning (Qualcomm Research San Diego) QUALCOMM Research is…