Author: Tim Finin
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Perks help tech startups attract and retain employees
While you can find a treehouse to rent using Airbnb, they also have a mockup of one for their employees to chill in. Last week’s Wall Street Journal had a story, The Perk Bubble Is Growing as Tech Booms Again, on how technology companies compete for employees by offering more and more extravagant perks. “Here…
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PhD defense: Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Finding a Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop Dean Earl Wright III 9:00am Wednesday 26 July 17 August 2011, ITE325 UMBC The field of Artificial Intelligence has seen steady advances in cognitive systems. However, many of these systems perform poorly when faced with situations outside of their training. And as…
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Computer science major tops for jobs
Software Development Times reports that Computer Science is the top major for job offers. “Computer science graduates now get more offers of employment than any other major. This is the first time since 2008 that computer science has topped the list: previously, accounting majors had the highest offer rate. In 2011, 56.2% of computer science…
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MS defense: Mitigating Coverage Loss in Wireless Sensor Networks
MS Thesis Defense Distributed Approach for Mitigating Coverage Loss in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor networks Kavin Rathinam Kasinathan 10:00am 15 July 2011, ITE 325b In a heterogeneous wireless sensor network, nodes with different sensing capabilities are dispersed throughout an area of interest. Nodes with similar capabilities are not necessarily collocated. When a node fails, the area…
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Is a smartphone your Internet portal?
Today’s Washington Post article, As smartphones proliferate, some users are cutting the computer cord, describes how smartphones are enabling a “always-on, Internet-on-the-go society”. “A third of all American adults own a smartphone and for many minority and low income users, those mobile devices have replaced computers for Internet access. The findings released Monday by the…
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Maryland's cybersecurity portfolio
The Washington Post had a recent story on how Maryland is positioning itself to take advantage of increased interest in cybersecurity, Maryland sees its moment in cybersecurity. The article discusses the cybersecurity incubator in UMBC’s research Park. “The state has had no trouble attracting well-known contractors  many of whom are based in Northern Virginia.…
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Six hottest IT jobs
CIO magazine has an article that identifies what they think are the the six hottest new IT jobs. They used an admittedly unscientific method of reviewing listing on IT job sites and talking to IT executives to find the types of jobs with good growth potential and are resistant to outsourcing and economic downturns. “IT…
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Clinical-Genomic Analysis for Disease Prediction, MS defense
MS Thesis Defense Clinical-Genomic Analysis for Disease Prediction Darshana Dalvi 10:00am 6 July 2011, ITE 346 Recent advances in genomic research have generated vast amounts of information that can help identify individuals who differ in their susceptibility to a particular disease or response to a specific treatment. This information may offer solutions for the treatment…
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Talk: Passive House; what is it and how does it work?
Passive House; what is it and how does it work? Brian Uher, ECORE Living 4:00pm Wednesday 20 July 2011 MD Clean Energy Technology Incubator, UMBC South Campus Brian Uher will discuss the engineering and design principles behind Passive House – a rigorous building performance standard that ECORE Living is deploying in the Mid-Atlantic region. The…
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Khan Academy does Computer Science
The Khan Academy is starting to publish a series of short instructional videos on computer science topics. The Introduction to Programming and Computer Science category currently has just 18 videos and these are all on basic programming topics in Python. Salman Khan's popular Khan Academy site has more than 2100 short videos covering "everything from…