Author: Tim Finin
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talk: Building and Testing Distributed Systems
1pm Fri 3/2: Dr. Charles Killian of Purdue University will talk about his research on Building and Testing Distributed Systems at 1:00pm on Friday, 2 March 2012 in room ITE325 at UMBC.
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talk: Spectrum Wars: LightSquared vs. GPS, 11:30am Fri 2/2
11:30 Fri 3/2: UMBC Professor Chuck LaBerge talks about the problems and controversies surrounding spectrum utilization between GPS and wireless communication.
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Google Android Camp program
Google is running an Android Camp this summer where 30 selected students will attend an all-expense-paid program at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, July 22-28. The camp will include an interactive and collaborative curriculum focusing on a practical introduction to developing applications for Android and will explore the concepts behind Android, the framework for…
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talk: Free-Space-Optical Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
1pm Mon 2/27: Professor Murat Yuksel of UNR will talk about his research on Free-Space-Optical Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks at 1:00pm on 27 February 2012 in ITE 325 at UMBC. Mobile ad-hoc communication is starting to find real-world applications beyond its military origins, in areas such as vehicular communications and delay tolerant networking. As the RF…
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Stripe capture the flag wargame
Stripe, a San Francisco startup with an online-payment system, is hosting a simple online cybersecurity capture the flag (CTF) challenge. See their blog post for the details. “The hardest part of writing secure code is learning to think like an attacker. For example, every programmer is told to watch out for SQL injections, but it’s…
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talk and demo: Brain-Computer Interface Technologies
Dr. Kaleb McDowell of the Army Research Laboratory will talk about Brain-Computer Interface Technologies in the Coming Decades and give a demonstration from 11:30-12:30 on Friday, 24 February 2012 in ITE 227 at UMBC.
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talk: Exploring the Web, Beyond Document Search
Dr. Yi Chen of Arizona State University will talk on effective information search on structured data t 1:00pm on Friday 24 February 2012 in ITE 325b.
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Amazon tech talk and information session, 7pm Thur 2/23, Skylight Room
Amazon, one of the most innovative and fastest growing technology companies, will hold a technical talk and information session at 7:00pm this Thursday (2/23) for UMBC students interested in full-time positions or internships. The meeting will be in the Skylight Room of the Commons. UMBC Alumna Akshaya Iyengar (MS CS '11) joined Amazon last…
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talk: Physical Layer Wireless Network Modeling and Simulation
EE Graduate Seminar Physical Layer Wireless Network Modeling and Simulation and my Technical Publishing Experience Jon R. Ward EE PhD Student, UMBC and the Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory 11:30 – 12:45, Friday, 17 February 2012, ITE 237 Jon Ward, and coauthors Jack Burbank and Bill Kasch, recently wrote a book for IEEE Press/Wiley entitled…
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talk: Programming Model for Data Intensive Parallel Applications
A Scalable, Fault Tolerant Programming Model for Developing Data Intensive Parallel Applications Tyler A. Simon Faculty Research Scientist UMBC Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research 1:00pm Friday 17 February 2012, ITE 325b Future exascale computing systems will have to execute a single program on the order of 10^8-10^9 individual, low powered processing elements. These processors…