Author: Tim Finin
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Mid-Maryland Data Science Meetup
One the hottest topics in computing today is data science — how we can exploit the massive amounts of data now available to discover knowledge and solve problems. Data science touches on many computing areas (e.g., databases, machine learning, high performance computing, visualization, cloud computing, text analysis and graph analytics) and has many applications. If…
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JOB: Intelligence community virtual career fair
The United States Intelligence Community (IC) invites you to attend the fourth annual IC Virtual Career Fair – a free online event – on Tuesday, 26 February 2013, from 2:00pm to 8:00pm (Eastern). Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about IC careers and get tips on how to apply for positions. From the comfort of…
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talk: Phlypo on Letting the data speak — from blind to semi-blind source separation, 1pm Fri 2/1
1pm Fri 2/1: Dr. Ronald Phlypo from the UMBC MLSP Lab will talk about his research on “Letting the data speak — from blind to semi-blind source separation” at 1:0pm on Friday, February 1, 2013 in room 227 of the ITE Building.
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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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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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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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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…