Category: Computer Science
-
MS defense: Numerical Integration Techniques for Volume Rendering
10am 5/7: Preeti Bindu defends his MS thesis on Numerical Integration Techniques for Volume Rendering at 10:00am on Monday, 7 May 2012 in room ITE 352, UMBC.
-
MS Defense: Shamit Patel on a Working Theory of the Learning Rule for Dendritic Integration
4pm Mon 4/23:Shamit Patel will defend his MS thesis “Towards Implementation of a Pattern Recognition System based on a Working Theory of the Learning Rule for Dendritic Integration” at 4:00pm on Monday 23 April 2012 in room ITE 346 at UMBC. The public is welcome.
-
PhD defense: DiffServ Assured Forwarded and Robust Header Compression: Performance Analysis
12:30pm Mon 4/23:: Houcheng Lee will defend his Ph.D. dissertation on ‘DiffServ Assured Forwarded and Robust Header Compression: Performance Analysis’ at 12:30pm Monday, APril 23 in room ITE 201b, UMBC.
-
Computer Science Curriculum for 2013 and beyond
The ACM and IEEE Computer Society jointly sponsor the development of a Computing Curricula volume on Computer Science. Their joint task force has just released a Strawman draft of the the CS2013 report.
-
Privacy Engineering
We've starting to see advertisements for a new kind of position: privacy engineer. If you've seen the classic movie, The Graduate, you'll remember the conversation that recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock has with a friend of his father, who says "I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. … Are you…
-
Computer Science for the rest of us
An article in the April 1 edition of New York Times, Computer Science for the Rest of Us, mentions UMBC and Marie desJardins. It describes the idea that our notion of literacy should be exapanded to include an understanding of computational processes and that all college graduates should know the basics of computational thinking. The…
-
PhD Defense: Patti Ordóñez Rozo on Multivariate Time Series Analysis of Physiological and Clinical Data
Patti Ordóñez Rozo will defend her dissertation on Multivariate Time Series Analysis of Physiological and Clinical Data at 1:00pm Thursday 29 March 2012 in ITE325b, UMBC.
-
Virginia Tech offers Cognitive Communications research experience this summer
Rising sophomore, junior, and senior undergraduate students interested in cognitive radios and wireless networking might want to take a look at Virginia Tech’s Cognitive Communications Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). This summer, the program will enlist ten undergraduate students for a nine-week research program that explores problems related to software defined radios, cognitive radios, wireless…
-
PhD Defense: Clustering and Visualization Techniques for Aggregate Trajectory Analysis
1pm 3/15 David Trimm defends his Ph.D. dissertation on “Clustering and Visualization Techniques for Aggregate Trajectory Analysis” at 1:00pm on Thursday March 15, 2012.
-
2012 Google Summer of Code program announced
If you have good programming skills and are looking for an interesting alternative to the usual summer internship, you might check out the Google Summer of Code program. It pays student developers $5000 stipends to write code for various open source projects over the summer. Over the past seven years, it's brought together over 6,000…