Author: Tim Finin
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Demand up for technology graduates
USA Today has an article on the increased recruiting by technology companies, Tech jobs boom like it's 1999. Potential employees are being lured with good salaries, bonuses, and perks, and some predict that almost 150,000 technology jobs will be added in 2011. "Nearly 150,000 tech jobs are expected to be added this year, says Sophia…
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talk: Working Together Apart, 12:00 4/29
Spring 2011 Information Systems Distinguished Lecture Working Together Apart Dr. Judy Olson Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine 12:00pm Friday, 29 April 2011, ITE Lecture Hall VII Our research group has been investigating the factors that make long distance teamwork work. I will review that work and talk about…
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Maryland Cyber Conference and Challenge (MDC3)
The Maryland Cyber Challenge and Conference site is up and student teams can now register for the competition, with the first qualifying round early in September. It is a chance to demonstrate your ability to work in a team and your cybersecurity and problem solving skills. MDC3 is a joint effort between SAIC, UMBC, DBED,…
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Semantic Analysis of XML Schema Matching for B2B (Dissertation Defense)
PhD Dissertation Defense Announcement A Semantic Analysis of XML Schema Matching for B2B Systems Integration Jaewook Kim 11:00am Thursday, 21 April 2011, ITE 346 One of the most critical steps to integrating heterogeneous e-Business applications using different XML schemas is schema matching, which is known to be costly and error-prone. Many automatic schema matching approaches…
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talk: Cybersecurity Threat is Real (new time: 10am)
The Threat is Real Sherri Ramsay Director, NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center 10:00am Friday 22 April 2011, 229 ITE Sherri Ramsay, the Director of the National Security Agency's National Threat Operations Center, will present an overview of contemporary issues in cybersecurity entitled "The Threat is Real". The NSA Threat Operations Center monitors the operations of the…
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FTP hits middle age
FTP, the File Transfer Protocol, is forty years old today. rfc114, the request for comments that defined the original FTP protocol, was published on April 16, 1971. FTP is one of the oldest Internet standards and remains important today, mostly through its descendants, like SFTP.
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Visionaries in IT Forum May 4: Catherine Kuenzel of Northrop Grumman
Catherine Kuenzel of Northrop Grummon will speak on Your Future in Emerging Technologies as part of the UMBC Visionaries in Information Technology Forum on May 4, 2011. Her talk will cover emerging technologies in health, homeland security, cyber security and renewable energy. Kuenzel is the the Vice President of Federal Mission Programs for the Civil…
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UMBC Google CS4HS Teacher Development Workshop
UMBC will host a three-day in-service training workshop for 35 Maryland high school computer science teachers sponsored by Google. The UMBC CS4HS Workshop will be held 17-20 July 2011 at UMBC's campus in suburban Baltimore. Workshop attendees will have the opportunity to share ideas for energizing the teaching of computer science in Maryland high schools…
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Symposium on Open Government Knowledge
CSEE Professors Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi are helping to organize a symposium this fall on Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges that will be held in Arlington Virginia sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The symposium will address the technical and social challenges involved in publishing public government data…
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Dissertation Defense: Towards Relational Theory Formation from Undifferentiated Sensor Data
Dissertation Defense Towards Relational Theory Formation from Undifferentiated Sensor Data Marc Pickett 10:00am Monday, 18 April 2011 ITE 325b, UMBC Human adults have rich theories in their heads of how the world works. These theories include objects and relations for both concrete and abstract concepts. Everything we know either must be innate or learned through…