Author: Tim Finin
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talk: Rutledge on multichannel amplitude compression for speech processing, 11/18
EE Graduate Seminar Time-Varying Amplitude Compression Processing to Preserve and Enhance Spectral Contrast in Speech Signals Dr. Janet C. Rutledge Dean, UMBC Graduate School Vice-Provost for Graduate Education Affiliate Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering 11:30-12:45 Friday, 18 November 2011, ITE 231 Multichannel amplitude compression processing is used to reduce the level variations of speech to fit…
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Ph.D. Defense: Justin Martineau on Sentiment Analysis, 1:30pm Fri 11/18
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis Justin Martineau 1:30-4:00 Friday, 18 November 2011, ITE 325b, UMBC Sentiment analysis is the automatic detection and measurement of sentiment in text segments by machines. This thesis provides methods to identify, characterize, and isolate the sentiment bearing terms…
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Talk: Stochastic Graph Grammars, Oates, 11/11/11
EE Graduate Seminar Stochastic Graph Grammars Prof. Tim Oates Associate Professor of Computer Science Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC 11:30am Friday November 11, ITE 231, UMBC Many important domains are naturally described relationally, often using graphs in which nodes correspond to entities and edges to relations. Stochastic graph grammars compactly represent probability distributions over…
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Summer research in cybersecurity and trustworthy systems
The Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) will sponsor 20 undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience located at TRUST partner campuses: UC Berkeley, Cornell University, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University. These students will work with graduate student and faculty mentors throughout the summer performing research…
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talk: Cyber Security Situation Awareness and Impact Assessment, 10:30am Tue 11/8
Cyber Security Situation Awareness and Impact Assessment: Issues, Models and Applications Dr. Gabriel Jakobson Altusys Corporation, Princeton NJ 10:30-11:30am 8 November 2011, ITE 325 Cyber attacks committed against IT networks and services have profound impact both on ongoing mission and future missions, whose operations are based on these networks and services. The attacks, by exploiting…
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Remotegrity: First Voter-Verifiable Internet Voting for Public Office
Some of this text was adapted from a press release and a post from the Scantegrity blog UMBC Professor Alan Sherman, UMBC alumnus Rick Carback (Ph.D. 2010) and many former and current UMBC students helped to develop Scantegrity, an an open source election verification technology for optical scan voting systems. In 2009, their Scantegrity II…
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talk: Marti Hearst on Natural Search User Interfaces, 12pm Fri 11/8, ITE 459, UMBC
Human-Centered Computing Speaker Series UMBC Information Systems Department 'Natural' Search User Interfaces Professor Marti Hearst School of Information University of California, Berkeley 12:00-1:00pm Friday 18 November 2011, ITE 459 What does the future hold for search user interfaces? Following on a recently completed book on this topic, this talk identifies some important trends in the…
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talk: Functional Brain Circuits, nAChR Genes, and Smoking, 11:30am Fri 11/4
EE Graduate Seminar Functional Brain Circuits, nAChR Genes, and Smoking Dr. Elliot Hong Director, Brain Imaging Center Associate Professor Maryland Psychiatric Research Center University of Maryland School of Medicine 11:30am-12:45pm Friday, 4 Nov 11, ITE 231 About 20% of the US population smokes cigarettes. Smoking is influenced by genetic and environmental factors and mental illnesses.The…
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Win $50K in the DARPA Shredder Challenge
DARPA has announce another research-relevant competition: the $50,000 Shredder Challenge which invites teams to try to reconstruct virtual shredded documents. "Today’s troops often confiscate the remnants of destroyed documents in war zones, but reconstructing them is a daunting task. DARPA’s Shredder Challenge calls upon computer scientists, puzzle enthusiasts and anyone else who likes solving complex…
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talk: Martineau on domain adaptation for sentiment analysis
CSEE Colloquium Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis Justin Martineau Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1:00pm Friday 4 November 2011, ITE 227 Justin Martineau will describe the results of his PhD dissertation which he will defend later this month. His dissertation research…