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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…
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Ultimately Academic
New CSEE lecturer John Park shares a little bit about his research and teaching career, and what he loves most about being a professor. Even though this will be my first real term as a full-time lecturer at UMBC, I'm actually an old hand here. I have been teaching part-time at UMBC for 4 years,…
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CSEE professor Hillol Kargupta featured in Journeys to Data Mining
CSEE professor Hillol Kargupta is one of fifteen Data Mining experts featured in a new book: Journeys to Data Mining: Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers (Springer, 2012). The book assembles the career journeys of fifteen experts in the field, answering questions like: “What are your notable success stories”, “What did you learn from your failures”,…
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Finin and Joshi receive NSF award to study linked data privacy
Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi have received a $400,000 research award from the NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program for a three year project to investigate how to better manage security and privacy constraints while querying semantically annotated linked data sources. The project, Policy Compliant Integration of Linked Data, is a collaboration with researchers…
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Career opportunities at NSA, 6-8pm Tue 9/25
On Tuesday, September 25, professionals from the National Security Agency will visit UMBC for a Computer Science Career Event hosted by NSA's Office of Recruitment and Dr. Claudia Pearce, NSA/CSS Senior Computer Science Authority. The session is geared toward upper divison Computer Science, Engineering, and Information Systems majors, as well as graduate students. It will be…
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DoIT Develops New Virtual Desktop Solution
Never again will students have to make the trek to the ITE building over the weekend to finish up that Matlab assignment. Thank UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT) for developing a virtual desktop solution that allows students to connect to a standard UMBC computer lab image from their MAC, PC, or iPad. The virtual…
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CMAP lecture: Wayne Loschen on public health disease surveillance, 6:45 9/25
The Central Maryland Association of .NET Professionals (CMAP), a user’s group that focuses on learning and discussing Microsoft .NET technologies, will host its first event of the year next Tuesday, September 25 at 6:45 p.m. in ITE 459. Wayne Loschen from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory—the technical lead for ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System…
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Cybersecurity Graduate Information Session, 6:30pm Wed. 10/3
From 6:00pm to 7:30pm on Wednesday, October 3, come explore UMBC's Cybersecurity Graduate Program options, and learn how a master’s degree or graduate certificate can help you advance in this exciting and critically important industry. Dr. Rick Forno, the graduate program director, will be available to answer questions and provide insight into courses, credit requirements,…