Month: March 2018
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🤝Women Data Scientists in Baltimore Meetup: Get started in Data Science, 3/31
By Fourandsixty (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons The Women Data Scientists in Baltimore Meetup will hold its first meeting this month, featuring a talk by Patty Stanton of the Social Security Administration on how to get started in the field of data science. Men are also welcome at this event. More information…
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🗣️talk: Computer Vision for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, 11am Mon 3/12
Computer Vision for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Dr. David Chapman, Oceaneering International 11:00-12:00 Monday March 12, 2018, ITE 325, UMBC Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are unmanned and unteathered submarine vehicles with a variety of applications from bathymetry survey to naval warfare. Attenuation and scattering of light and electromagnetic radiation through water severely restricts wireless communications as…
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talk: Creating Educational Cybersecurity Assessment Tools, 12pm Fri 3/9
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Creating Educational Cybersecurity Assessment Tools Alan T. Sherman Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County 12:00–1:00pm Friday, March 9, 2018, ITE 229, UMBC The Cybersecurity Assessment Tools (CATS) Project provides rigorous evidence-based instruments for assessing and evaluating educational practices. The first CAT will…
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talk: desJardins on Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains, 1pm fri 3/8
UMBC ACM Student Chapter Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains: AMDPs, Option Discovery, Learning Transfer, Language Learning, and More Dr. Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1-2pm Friday, March 9th, 2018, ITE 456, UMBC Robots acting in human-scale environments must plan under uncertainty in large state–action spaces and face constantly changing reward functions…
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Prof. Marie desJardins, new AAAI fellow, advocates for CS education in K–12 schools
Prof. Marie desJardins, new AAAI fellow, advocates for CS education in K–12 schools Marie desJardins, associate dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology and professor of computer science, recently wrote a piece for The Baltimore Sun about the importance of computer science education in K–12 schools. She is a leader in the artificial…