Author: Tim Finin
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PhD defense: Varish Mulwad — Inferring the Semantics of Tables
Dissertation Defense TABEL — A Domain Independent and Extensible Framework for Inferring the Semantics of Tables Varish Vyankatesh Mulwad 8:00am Thursday, 8 January 2015, ITE325b Tables are an integral part of documents, reports and Web pages in many scientific and technical domains, compactly encoding important information that can be difficult to express in text. Table-like structures…
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UMBC 3rd in Pan-Am Chess Championship, advances to Final-Four
UMBC placed third in the the 2014 Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship and advances to the Prsdident’s Cup — Final Four of College Chess — which will be held in April.
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UMBC chess team competes in Pan-Am Intercollegiate Chess Championship
UMBC is competing in the 2014 Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Championship being held this week in South Padre Island, Texas.
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MS defense: Impaired Driving Detection Using Multiple Textile & Inertial Sensors
Tsu An Chen will defend his MS Thesis, distratto: Real-time Impaired Driving Detection Using Multiple Textile and Inertial Sensors, at 1:00pm on 23 December 2014 in room 341 of the ITE building at UMBC.
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Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014
The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 bill was passed by Congress this month and signed by the President at the end of last week. The bill provides for “an ongoing, voluntary public-private partnership to improve cybersecurity, and to strengthen cybersecurity research and development, workforce development and education, and public awareness and preparedness, and for other…
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New computing faculty positions at UMBC
UMBC has nine open full-time positions for computing faculty including five tenure track professors, a professor of the practice and three lecturers.
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IRC seeks student programmers, part-time and summer
UMBC’s Imaging Research Center is looking for student programmers to assist in ongoing projects. Current projects range from websites to mobile apps. Such projects include web based panorama viewer, working with Unity to develop mobile apps, developing a web based story sharing social network, developing a image archive/gallery, and more. Projects are assigned as seen…
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A drone's eye view of Baltimore
Filmmaker Matthew Coakley of Blue Mantle Media created this drone-assisted video of Baltimore.
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Internships at Oracle Labs for IR/NLP/ML
The Information Retrieval and Machine Learning group at Oracle Labs is looking for highly motivated interns for both Spring and Summer 2015. The candidate should be proficient in Machine Learning and/or Statistical NLP. Their current focus is in the areas of search, information extraction, including entity extraction and linking, relationship extraction, sentiment analysis as…
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PhD defense: Huguens Jean, Paper Form Classification for Information Systems Strengthening in Developing Countries
UMBC PhD student Huguens Jean defends his dissertation, Paper form digitization for information systems strengthening and socio-economic development in developing countries, at 1pm on Friday, December 19