Author: Tim Finin
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UMBC CWIT Bits and Bytes program cited in CNN article on women in computing
An article on CNN, Why women in tech came to a 'Halt', uses AMC Halt and Catch Fire television series to illustrate some of challenges in keeping more women in computing majors and careers. The article mentions the UMBC CWIT Bits and Bytes program as one example of an effort to address this. "Even with…
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UMBC offers cybersecurity research special topics course in Fall 2015
The UMBC CSEE department will offer a special research-oriented special topics course on Cybersecurity in Fall 2015 involving a mix of undergraduate and graduate students.
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UMBC receives DoD grant to develop cybersecurity education tools
CSEE faculty Alan Sherman and Dhananjay Phatak and Education Professor Linda Oliva received a research grant from the Department of Defense to create educational assessment tools to improve the teaching of cybersecurity. The one-year funded project is a collaboration with Geoffrey Herman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The research is being carried out…
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MS defense: Lianjie Sun, Assessing Confidence in Relation Extraction, 2pm 7/23
Lianjie Sun will defend his MS thesis on 'Assessing Confidence in Relation Extraction Systems'; at 2pm on Thr. July 23 in ITE325b at UMBC.
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CSEE Prof. Jian Chen receives grant for health informatics data visualization
UMBC CSEE professor Jian Chen received an award from DoD to to develop new techniques to visualize health informatics data in collaboration with esearchers at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
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CSEE PhD student Kavita Krishnaswamy interviewed by Dr. Renetta Tull
CSEE Ph.D. student Kavita Krishnaswamy is interviewed by Dr. Renetta Tull, UMBC Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development and Postdoctoral Affairs.
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Nielsen Audio Data Science Day event, Thr. June 25
Nielsen Audio invites students and faculty to attend a Data Science event 11-2:30 Thursday June 25 at their Columbia MD headquarters
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Summer text analysis research jobs, on-campus
A new, interdisciplinary research project offers a total of five positions to graduate or undergraduate students from multiple disciplines who exhibit the right combination of initiative, skills and sandboxability.
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Robotic assistive devices for independent living
CSEE PhD student Kavita Krishnaswamy and Prof. Tim Oates write about their research using brain-computer interfaces and speech recognition tools to control robotic to assist individuals with reduced muscular strength. The piece, Robotic assistive devices for independent living, appeard in Robohub, "a non-profit online communication platform that brings together experts in robotics research, start-ups, business,…
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Innovations in Cybersecurity Education Workshop, UMBC, Fri 6/12
UMBC will host a free one-day workshop on Innovations in Cybersecurity Education, 9:30-4:30 on Friday 12 June at UMBC's South Campus facility.