Author: Tim Finin
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Volunteer for the MD FIRST Lego League championship
UMBC will host the 2011 FIRST Lego League Maryland State Championship on Saturday February 26 in the UMBC Retriever Activities Center. The UMBC organizers, led by UMBC Mechanical Engineering Professor Anne Spence, need volunteers from the UMBC community to help on the tournament day as well as to help set up in on Friday. If…
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Upcoming On-Campus Interview Deadlines for Spring 2011
Here is a sample of employers coming to conduct on-campus interviews at UMBC this spring. Check the UMBC Career Services blog often as employers will be added throughout the semester. Sogeti Interviewing on 3/1/11 (UMBCworks Deadline to Apply: 2/15/11) Position: Consultant Majors: Business Technology Administration, Information Systems National Security Agency (NSA) Interviewing on 3/3/11 (Deadline…
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Luebke: GPU Computing: Past, Present and Future, 1pm Fri Feb 4, ITE227
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County GPU Computing: Past, Present, and Future Dr. David Luebke Director of Research, NVIDIA Corporation 1:00-2:15pm Friday, 4 February 2011, ITE 227 Modern GPUs have outgrown their graphics heritage in many ways to emerge as the world's most successful parallel computing architecture. The GPUs that consumers…
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CSEE grad student documentary film: LEVÉ HAITI
Huguens Jean, '03, '11, Ph.D., electrical engineering, and Clifford Muse '11, information systems, returned to Haiti in March 2010, after the devastating January earthquake, to fulfill their grandfather's last request of them. As he was dying of cancer, he asked that at his funeral they celebrate his life and "find the joy." "I had no…
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Minefleet datamining system honored at ICDM-2010
Work by Professor Hillol Kargupta and his students and colleagues was recognize as one of the top ten data mining case studies at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. The case study submission cited was described in Hillol Kargupta, Kakali Sarkar, Michael Gilligan, Parag Namjoshi, Sai Subhash Paruchuru, Thiraphat Pongsudhiraks, and Robert Gilligan,…
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Guidelines for smart grid cybersecurity, 2/15/2011
The North American electric power system has been called the world's largest interconnected machine and is a key part of our national infrastructure. The power grid is evolving to better exploit modern information technology and become more integrated with our cyber infrastructure. This presents unprecedented opportunities for enhanced management and efficiency but also introduces vulnerabilities…
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Palanivel Kodeswaran dissertation defense, 10am 1/31/11
Palanivel Kodeswaran will defend his Ph.D. dissertation, "On the use of context and policies in declarative networked systems", at 10:00am on Monday, 31 January in ITE 325. The research was directed by Professor Anupan Joshi. The defense is open to the public. Abstract: Managing complex networks while ensuring that certain high level goals such…
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New Cybersecurity graduate programs start this week
The CSEE Department's two new Cybersecurity graduate programs begin this semester. Graduate Certificate in Professional Studies: Cybersecurity Strategy and Policy This four-course graduate certificate can be completed in a year. Because these courses are not technical (although a technical background may be helpful), this program is available to students with a variety of undergraduate…
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Global Game Jam at UMBC, 28-30 January
UMBC will be the Baltimore host site for the 2011 Global Game Jam, an international computer game making festival taking place this coming weekend, January 28th-30th. This is a 48 hour event, where teams from around the globe work to each develop a complete game over one weekend. The first year had 54 sites…
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UMBC 2nd in Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship
CSEE Professor Alan Sherman reports that "UMBC advances to Final Four of College Chess, placing 2nd at 2010 Pan-Am Intercollegiate, after losing to arch rival UTD in close, hard-fought match last evening in Milwaukee. 28 teams competed in this six-round team Swiss event, including Stanford, Yale, Univ of Chicago, Univ. of Toronto." The top four…