Author: Tim Finin
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Linux is twenty years old this year
Linux will be twenty years old this summer. On August 26, 1991 Linus Torvalds posted a message to the comp.os.minix newsgroup that started like this. "Hello everybody out there using minix. I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been…
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UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference schedule, Sat 4/30
The UMBC's Fifth Digital Entertainment Conference will be held on Saturday, April 30th. Every year, the UMBC Game Developer's Club invites speakers from area game companies to share their knowledge and experience. One of the strenghts of the UMBC program in Graphics, Animation and Interactive Media (GAIM) is its strong ties to game development studios…
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CSEE undergraduates present work at URCAD
Congratulations to the CSEE undergraduate students and groups who will be presenting posters on their research as part of the Fifteenth Annual UMBC Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day. UCRAD features research, scholarship, and creative work carried out by UMBC undergraduates. Natée Johnson, X-Ray Study of Nano-Scale Superlattice Materials, 3:15pm-3:30pm, UC 310, Mentor: Dr. Fow-Sen Choa…
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Serial entrepreneur David Turock to talk at Baltimore Emerging Technology Center
The Baltimore ACM Chapter, the Greater Baltimore Technology Council, and the Emerging Technology Center are hosting a free, public lecture on entrepreneurship by David Turock at 7:00pm, Wednesday 27 April in the ETC Canton facility (2400 Boston St., Baltimore). David Turock will present a side-by-side comparison of two telecommunications start-ups that he launched: one successful,…
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Computing enrollments up 10% nationwide
The CRA reports that total enrollments among U.S. computer science undergraduates increased 10% in 2010 based on data from its most recent annual Taulbee Survey. This is the third straight year of increases in total enrollment and indicates that the post “dot-com crash” decline in undergraduate computing program enrollments is over. The Taulbee Survey is…
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Subjects sought for Python programming study
Last chance to participate & enter drawing for a free iPod Nano! We are a group of students who are performing a research study to investigate how students learn and improve their performance at different aspects of Python programming. For the study, we are looking for students who are currently enrolled in CMSC 201 or…
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Talk: Diversity, Identity and Inclusion, 11am Fri 4/15 ITE229
Diversity, Identity, and Inclusion Dr. Manuel A. Perez-Quinones Associate Professor of Computer Science Virginia Tech 11:00am – 12:00pm Friday 15 April 2011, ITE 229 In this talk, Dr. Pérez-Quiñones presents basic definitions of these terms and briefly discusses some of the research literature on them. He presents evidence that supports diversity and inclusion beyond the…
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Cyber Defense Team meeting, Noon 4/4 ITE 325b
The UMBC Cyber Defense Team, aka the Cyberdawgs, will host a technical briefing on Monday April 4 featuring two guest speakers from the DoD. The topic will be the cyber competitions between the service academies, and other cyber-related topics may come up as well. The meeting will be held in the CSEE conference room, ITE…
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The Social Life of Personal Information, 1pm Thr 4/14 ITE325b
The Social Life of Personal Information Dr. Manuel A. Perez-Quinones Associate Professor of Computer Science Virginia Tech 1:00pm Thursday 14 April 2011, ITE 325b Personal Information Management (PIM) practices are the set of behaviors that we follow to organize our information. This often includes the management of email messages, documents, bookmarks, digital pictures, music, etc.…
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Lecture on Distributed Quantum Algorithms, 2:30pm Web 3/30
Professor Samuel Lomonaco will present a lecture on Distributed Quantum Algorithms from 2:30 to 3:45 on Wednesday March 30 in room ITE 325b. In the talk, Professor Lomonaco will show how quantum entanglement can be used as a mechanism for controlling a network of quantum computers. The talk is open to all.