Author: Tim Finin
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2012 Google Graduate Researchers in Academia of Diverse backgrounds (GRAD) CS Forum
As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging students of underrepresented backgrounds in technology to pursue graduate study, the company will host the 2012 Google Graduate Researchers in Academia of Diverse backgrounds (GRAD) CS Forum. This forum will bring together students who are historically underrepresented in the field to connect with one another and with…
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Build a better ant in the Google AI Challenge
Google is sponsoring another AI Challenge Competition run by an independent group of volunteers that grew out of the Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo. The competition opens today and invites submissions of programs designed to control ants a simulated colony in competition with other colonies. Ants is a multi-player strategy game…
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talk: Adapt3D: A Framework for Supporting CFD and MHD Modeling, 1pm Fri 10/21 ITE227
Adapt3D: A Framework for Supporting CFD and MHD Modeling Professor John E. Dorband Research Associate Professor and MCC Chief Scientist Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1:00pm Friday 21 October 2011, ITE227 Adapt3D is a software framework that supports 3-D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) modeling on an unstructured…
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talk: Detection of Chemical, Biological and Explosive Materials, 11:30am Fri 10/21
EE Graduate Seminar Detection and Classification of Chemical, Biological, and Explosive Materials: A Brief Overview of Several Cutting-Edge Problem Areas Darren Emge PI and Deputy Branch Chief Laser Standoff Detection Branch US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center 11:30am-12:45pm Friday, 21 October 11, ITE 231 The detection and classification of chemical, biological, and explosive (CBE) materials…
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Prof. Lomonaco talks on Quantum Knots, Quantum Braids and Quantum Computing
CSEE processor Samuel J. Lomonaco is giving a talk on his research on quantum computing as part of the Joint Quantum Institute seminar series sponsored by UMCP and NIST. The talk will be given at 12:30pm Monday 17 October, in room 1201 in the Physics building at College Park. Quantum knots and quantum braids: Their…
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October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
This October is the the eighth annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security in cooperation with the National Cyber Security Alliance and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center. According to the DHS, cyber threats present some of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face, not…
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DiCaprio to play Alan Turing in a new biopic 'The Imitation Game'
Warner Brothers is said to have purchased the rights to a script The Imitation Game by screenwriter Graham Moore about British mathematician Alan Turing who made many important contributions to computer science. Leonardo DiCaprio is supposedly interested in playing Turing and is "chasing the project" and Ron Howard is rumored to be interested in in…
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Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C programming language, has died
Sad news. Rob Pike reports on Google Plus that Dennis Ritchie died at his home this weekend after a long illness. Ritchie created the C programming language and was a key contributor to Unix. In 1983 he received the Turing Award with his long time colleague Ken Thompson for the development of operating systems theory…
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talk: Optical Sensors for Biotechnology & Bioengineering
EE Graduate Seminar Optical Sensors for Biotechnology and Bioengineering Yordan Kostov, PhD Research Associate Professor UMBC Center for Advanced Sensor Technology 11:30am-12:45pm, Friday 14 October 2011, ITE 231 Interaction of the light with the matter is one of the fundamental interactions in the nature. It is used in a variety of fields, stretching from telecommunications…
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Delali Dzirasa (’04, Computer Engineering) receives 2011 UMBC Young Alumni Rising Star Award
UMBC Alumni Association presents awards each year honoring alumni for their professional and personal achievements and service to the University. This year's Young Alumni Rising Star Award is being given to Delali Dzirasa (’04, Computer Engineering) who is the founder and president of Fearless Solutions, LLC. While an undergraduate, Delali Dzirasa was a member of…