Author: Tim Finin
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2012 Google Summer of Code Applications open March 26
Apply to the 2012 Google Summer of Code 3/26 — 4/6 to earn $5000 coding for an open source project.
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UMBC Cyberdawgs are recruiting
UMBC's Cyber Defense Team is looking for new members. This semester the team competed in the Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship. In this competition, each team defended a mock corporate network against a horde of professional hackers in a fast-paced, real-time event over the course of two days. These competitions are a great way to network…
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talk: Changing the Landscape of Voting and Voter Registration
Noon 3/28: Dr. Juan Gilbert of Clemson will talk about Changing the Landscape of Voting and Voter Registration through Universal Design at Noon in the UMBC Information Systems Department in room ITE459 on Wednesday, March 28.
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talk: Interaction with Virtual Environments, 3/27
1pm 3/27: Dr. Tabitha Peck of the University of Barcelona Event Lab will present her research on Interaction with Virtual Environments at 1:00pm Tuesday 27 March in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
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talk: Securing Cyber-Physical Systems, 3/26
1pm 3/26: Dr. Alvaro A. Cárdenas of Fujitsu Laboratories of America will talk about his research on Securing Cyber-Physical Systems at 1:00pm on Monday, 16 March 2012 in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
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Talk: Kapitanova on Addressing failures in wireless sensor networks
1pm 3/28: Krasimira Kapitanova talks about her research on Addressing failures in wireless sensor networks at 1:00pm on Wednesday, 28 March 2012 in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
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Judea Pearl wins 2011 Turing Award
Judea Pearl has won the 2011 A.M. Turing Award for "fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning." Pearl pioneered the use of Bayesian networks and causal modeling as an approach to reasoning with uncertain knowledge and made man other contributions to probabilistic approaches to artificial…
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talk: Transition from the Academic World to Corporate Culture, 11:30 Fri 3/16
11:30am 3/16: George W. Reynolds, the Director, Industry and University Initiatives at Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems will talk about “From Backpack to Briefcase: Transition from the Academic World to Corporate Culture” at 11:30am on Friday, 16 March 2012 in ITE 237.
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PhD Defense: Clustering and Visualization Techniques for Aggregate Trajectory Analysis
1pm 3/15 David Trimm defends his Ph.D. dissertation on “Clustering and Visualization Techniques for Aggregate Trajectory Analysis” at 1:00pm on Thursday March 15, 2012.