Month: January 2013
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JOB: underwater sensor networks research in UMBC's ESNET Lab
Photo: ua-net.eu The ESNET Lab in UMBC's Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department is looking for qualified undergraduate or graduate students to join and work on an exciting underwater sensor networks project. For more information go to http://esnet.cs.umbc.edu/eduwan.html. The candidates applying should have experience in (or at least familiar with) some of the following areas:…
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Cindy Greenwood joins CWIT as Assistant Director, Cyber Scholars Program coordinator
The Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) welcomes Cindy Greenwood as their new Assistant Director. Ms. Greenwood will spearhead the new Cyber Scholars Program which kicks off this fall. Cindy Greenwood loved college so much that she never wanted to leave. So she didn’t. When an Advertising and Public Relations internship during her senior…
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Apply today for CRA-W Graduate Cohort Workshop
It’s not too late to apply for the 2013 CRA-W Graduate Cohort Workshop scheduled for April 5-6, 2013 in Boston, MA. This event brings together women graduate students in their first three years of graduate school for a series of presentations and panels with successful senior women researchers from academic, industrial, and government laboratories about…
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Oracle updates Java 7 to fix dangerous security exploits
TL;DR version: if you have Java 7 on your computer, update it. Now. The Java programming language helped to make the Web popular in the mid 1990s by its invention of the Web applet. The idea was powerful and enabled complex programs to be automatically downloaded when you visited a Web page and run securely…
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Kirit Chatterjee (CE MS '12) helps build innovative temperature sensor for neonatal care
For his Master’s thesis, Computer Engineering student Kirit Chatterjee worked with scientists from UMBC’s Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) on an innovation temperature sensor for premature babies.
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Congratulations to our CSEE Ph.D. December graduates
Congratulations to our December Ph.D. graduates! Read on to hear about their Ph.D. dissertation research and their plans for the future. Dr. Karuna Joshi Computer Science Semantically Rich, Policy Based Framework to Automate Lifecycle of Cloud Based Services Mentors: Yelena Yesha and Tim Finin Thesis Topic: Dr. Joshi developed a new framework to automate…
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JOB: undergraduate internships at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, MD (20 minutes south of UMBC), offers a wide array of valuable, paid internships for Undergraduates in the summer. Please see the attached flyers. IMPORTANT NOTE: while the end date for applications is in March, Goddard is doing a FIRST CUT by Jan 30, so the good jobs…