Category: Computer Science
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ACM Queue programming challenge
If you’re at loose ends for the semester break and want to sharpen your programming slils, you might try competing in the ACM Queue Magazine online programming competition. You will program a player that will compete with others in the game of Coercion. The competition opens January 15 and closes at midnight GMT on February…
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UMBC team places second in the DARPA Shredder Challenge
Just over a month ago, DARPA announced The Shredder Challenge competition to develop a system to solve puzzles by reassembling images of shredded documents with a $50,000 prize for the winning entry. Yesterday the prize was won by All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S., a San Francisco-based team that was the first to correctly…
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MS defense: Sawhney on Analyzing the Growth of Hoeffding Trees
MS Thesis Defense Analyzing the Growth of Hoeffding Trees Mayank Sawhney 12:00-1:30pm Thursday 1 December 2011, ITE 346 Mining high speed data streams has become a necessity because of the enormous growth in the volume of electronic data. In the past decade, researchers have suggested various models for learning in both stationary and concept drifting…
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MS defense: Pilz on Approximation of Nonintegral Frequency Moments, 11/30
Masters Thesis Defense Approximation of Nonintegral Frequency Moments Brian Pilz 10:00am 30 November 2011, ITE325b Let a data stream have length m over an alphabet of n letters, with letter i occurring m_i times for i = 1,…,n. For any k, define the frequency moments F_k as F_k = sum_{i=1}^n m_i^k. Alon, Matias, and Szegedy…
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Prof. Lomonaco talks on Quantum Knots, Quantum Braids and Quantum Computing
CSEE processor Samuel J. Lomonaco is giving a talk on his research on quantum computing as part of the Joint Quantum Institute seminar series sponsored by UMCP and NIST. The talk will be given at 12:30pm Monday 17 October, in room 1201 in the Physics building at College Park. Quantum knots and quantum braids: Their…
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Google introduces the Dart web programming language
Google unveiled its new web programming language Dart today. It's described as a "class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications". Dart has a native virtual machine and can also be compiled into JavaScript, allowing it to run on current browser. Google says it it exploring adding the Dart virtual machine to the…
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talk: Intelligent Agents in the OntoAgent Cognitive Architecture
EE Graduate Seminar Intelligent Agents in the OntoAgent Cognitive Architecture Professor Sergei Nirenburg Director, Institute for Language and Information Technologies Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County 11:30am-12:45pm Friday 30 September 2011, ITE 231 OntoAgent is a constantly evolving cognitive architecture that facilitates development of and experimentation with artificial intelligent agents (ontoagents).…
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Considering graduate school in a computing field?
The Computing Community Consortium has a new web site for undergraduates in computing fields hoping to learn more about doing research, summer research opportunities, and the process for applying to graduate school. The website contains: A section on what graduate school in computer science is all about, including frequently asked questions with answers by current…
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Henry Sienkiewicz on Cloud Computing in the Government
UMBC CSEE Colloquium Cloud Computing Henry J. Sienkiewicz Chief Information Officer Defense Information Systems Agency 11:30-12:30 Friday, 16 September 2011 Room 231, ITE Building Mr. Henry Sienkiewicz will discuss the opportunities and challenges for using cloud computing in government agencies. Henry J. Sienkiewicz is the Chief Information Officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency.…
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UMBC students present research at the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning
Six CSEE graduate students will present their research First Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning is a one-day event to be held at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on Friday, 23 September 2011. Its goal is to bring together students taking computational approaches to speech, language, and learning, so that they can…