Month: February 2015
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Job: Health Informatics Data Scientist
Job Opening: Health Informatics Data Scientist #machinelearning #datascience #informatics #healthIT #datamining Where? Bethesda, MD Description: Incumbent will serve as the Data Scientist for the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) in Bethesda MD. NICoE is a DoD institute dedicated to providing cutting-edge evaluation, treatment, and research for…
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talk: Topic Modeling with Structured Priors for Text-Driven Science
Michael Paul from JHU will talk about his research on Topic Modeling with Structured Priors for Text-Driven Science at Noon on Monday, 2 March 2015 in room ITE 325 at UMBC.
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Two technical talks by Amazon senior staff, 4-6:30pm Tue 3/3
Two senior Amazon technical staff will talk on practical topics, including web performance optimization and cloud computing with AWS from 4:00pm to 6:30pm on Tue. March 3 in the UC Ballroom at UMBC.
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Debate: Ethics of brain-computer interface technology
A debate on the ethical problems inherent in brain-computer interface technologxy will take place at UMBC 7:30-9:00pm on Monday, 2 March 2015 in ITE 104.
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PhD proposal: User Identification in Wireless Networks
Christopher Swartz will present his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, User Identification in Wireless Networks, at 9am on Friday, February 27 in ITE325b.
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talk: Visual understanding of human actions, 12-1 Fri 2/27, ITE325b
Dr. Hamed Pirsiavash from M.I.T. will talk about his research on ‘visual understanding of human actions’ from 12:00-1:00pm, Friday, 27 February, 2015 in ITE 325b at UMBC.
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PhD proposal: Scalable Storage System for Big Scientific Data
Navid Golpayegani will present his dissertation proposal, MLVFS: A Scalable Storage System For Managing Big Scientific Data, at 3:00pm on Tuesday, 24 February 2015, in ITE346 at UMBC
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talk: Understanding Social Spammers, Noon Tue 2/24, ITE325
Xia Hu of Arizona State University will talk on ‘Understanding Social Spammers: A Data Mining Perspective’ at Noon on Tue 2/24 in room ITE325 at UMBC
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Rick Forno discusses cybersecurity on NPR
Last week, health insurance giant Anthem revealed that the personal information of as many as 80 million customers was stolen by hackers. This news came just days before President Obama announced the creation of a new agency to analyze and counter cyber threats. In this hour, we look at Obama’s cybersecurity agenda, and the cyber-security…
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talk: Labrou on Studying Internet Latency via TCP Queries to DNS, 1:30pm Fri 2/27
Verisign principal data architect Dr. Yannis Labrou on using big data analytics to dynamically estimate Internet latency, 1:30pm Fri. Feb. 27 in ITE 456 at UMBC