Category: Computer Science
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CS alumna Stephanie Hill ('86) to be honored at UMBC's Outstanding Alumni of the Year Awards
Computer Science alumna (’86) Stephanie C. Hill will be honored at this year’s Outstanding Alumni of the Year Awards on October 11, 7:30 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Hill is the president of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions-Civil division. In May, she submitted a guest post to the Washington post entitled…
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Environmentally Aware
New CSEE assistant professor Nilanjan Banerjee works on building renewable energy-driven devices. Though technology has become an essential resource for many, it’s using up more and more of another kind of resource: energy. Not only is energy production costly, but it’s not infallible. For a generation that’s come to rely on technology, what do we…
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Visualize This
New CSEE assistant professor Jian Chen creates visualizations to represent large data sets. Few things are more daunting than an excel spreadsheet full of data. Even scientists can react to massive data sets with blank stares. That’s where the work of new CSEE assistant professor Jian Chen comes into play. As a designer of visualization…
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Ultimately Academic
New CSEE lecturer John Park shares a little bit about his research and teaching career, and what he loves most about being a professor. Even though this will be my first real term as a full-time lecturer at UMBC, I'm actually an old hand here. I have been teaching part-time at UMBC for 4 years,…
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Apply for a Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship, courtesy Facebook
Photo: Gracehopper.org Facebook has announced that it will award scholarships to 25 women who wish to attend the upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference that will take place at the Baltimore Convention center October 3-6. This year's theme is "Are We There Yet?" Applicants must be women studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering,…
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Amey Sane MS defense: Predicting the activities of mobile phone with HMMs
9am Tue 8/28: Amey Sane defends his MS thesis, Predicting the Activities of Mobile Phone Users with Hidden Markov Models, at 9:00am Tuesday, 28 August 2012, in room ITE 325b at UMBC.
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Nikhil Puranik MS defense: Classification of Column Data, 8/24
Nikhil Puranik will defend his MS thesis, A Specialist Approach for Classification of Column Data, at 1:30pm on Friday August 24 in room 325b in the ITE building at UMBC.
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PhD Defense: Yasaman Haghpanah
Yasaman Haghpanah will defend her Ph.D. dissertation, A Trust and Reputation Mechanism Through Behavioral Modeling of Reviewers, at 11:0am on Tuesday 21 August 2012 in room ITE 325b at UMBC.
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Xianshu Zhu (CS, Ph.D.) wins best student paper award at IEEE conference
Congratulations to Xianshu Zhu (CS, Ph.D.), who won the best student paper award at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. The conference, which took place last weekend in Las Vegas, is a forum to discuss how we can maximize the reuse of information with the creation of simple, rich, and reusable…
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Internship: Web Developer for MD FiRST
Photo Courtesy governor.maryland.gov Motorola Solutions is looking for an intern to work on the state's new Maryland FiRST website. Maryland FiRST, or Maryland First Responders Interoperable Radio System Team, will connect Maryland's first responders over a secure 700 MHz radio system. The following is a job description, taken from a UMBC News post: It will…