Author: Tim Finin
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Angry birds are attacking the US economy
The Atlantic has a short article on estimating the cost to the US economy of the popular angry birds game available on most smartphones. Their estimate? $1.5 billion dollars a year. "Every March, it is a requirement that every newspaper and website in every town in the United States run a story about how much…
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Henry Sienkiewicz on Cloud Computing in the Government
UMBC CSEE Colloquium Cloud Computing Henry J. Sienkiewicz Chief Information Officer Defense Information Systems Agency 11:30-12:30 Friday, 16 September 2011 Room 231, ITE Building Mr. Henry Sienkiewicz will discuss the opportunities and challenges for using cloud computing in government agencies. Henry J. Sienkiewicz is the Chief Information Officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency.…
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UMBC students present research at the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning
Six CSEE graduate students will present their research First Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning is a one-day event to be held at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on Friday, 23 September 2011. Its goal is to bring together students taking computational approaches to speech, language, and learning, so that they can…
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POSTPONED: talk: Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing in Optical Fibers and Waveguides
CSEE Graduate Seminar Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing in Optical Fibers and Waveguides Dr. Gary M. Carter Professor of Electrical Engineering Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1-2pm Friday, 16 September, 2011, ITE 227 postponed until later in the Fall Advances in optical fiber and semiconductor technology have progressed to the degree…
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Talk: Genetic information for chronic disease prediction
Genetic information for chronic disease prediction Michael A. Grasso, MD, PhD University of Maryland School of Medicine 1:00pm Friday 23 September 2011, 227 ITE Type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease are commonly occurring polygenic-multifactorial diseases, which are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. The identification of people at risk for these conditions has historically…
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talk: Analysis of Brain Network Connectivity in fMRI Data using Spatial Dependence
EE Graduate Seminar Analysis of Brain Network Connectivity in fMRI Data using Spatial Dependence Sai Ma EE PhD Candidate, CSEE Dept, UMBC 11:30-12:45 Friday 9 September 2011, ITE 231 Due to low invasiveness and high spatial resolution, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become popular in neuroimaging field to determine where activity occurs in brain…
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Citizen Science on the Social and Semantic Web, PhD proposal, Joel Sachs
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Citizen Science on the Social and Semantic Web Joel Sachs 9:00-11:00am Friday 9 September 2011 Room 325b, ITE Building, UMBC A question faced by semantic web developers is how much explicit semantics to include in their ontologies. A typical answer is that it depends on the use case, since different use cases…
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Prof. desJardins receives NSF grant to study teaching computers to follow verbal instructions
Professor Marie desJardins receied a three year grant from NSF's Robust Intelligence program to develop techniques that will permit a computer or robot to learn from examples to carry out multipart tasks specified in natural language on behalf of a user. The project, Teaching Computers to Follow Verbal Instructions, is part of a collaborative effort…
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Microsoft at UMBC Tue 9/6 to discuss internship and full-time positions
Microsoft will be on campus to meet with undergraduate and graduate students interested in internship and full-time positions in the Seattle area. Interested students should come to the the Skylight Room in the Commons between 6:30 and 7:30pm on Tuesday September 6. There are opportunities for Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Information Systems…
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President Freeman Hrabowski on UMBC's Cybersecurity Strategy
UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski was recently interviewed by The Daily Record on UMBC's educational and research programs in cybersecurity and their importance to the region and nation. "We anticipate significant growth in this area over the next five years as the nation continues to stand up our cybersecurity resources. In addition, cybersecurity has implications for…