Category: Computer Science
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Semantic Analysis of XML Schema Matching for B2B (Dissertation Defense)
PhD Dissertation Defense Announcement A Semantic Analysis of XML Schema Matching for B2B Systems Integration Jaewook Kim 11:00am Thursday, 21 April 2011, ITE 346 One of the most critical steps to integrating heterogeneous e-Business applications using different XML schemas is schema matching, which is known to be costly and error-prone. Many automatic schema matching approaches…
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Dissertation Defense: Towards Relational Theory Formation from Undifferentiated Sensor Data
Dissertation Defense Towards Relational Theory Formation from Undifferentiated Sensor Data Marc Pickett 10:00am Monday, 18 April 2011 ITE 325b, UMBC Human adults have rich theories in their heads of how the world works. These theories include objects and relations for both concrete and abstract concepts. Everything we know either must be innate or learned through…
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Linux is twenty years old this year
Linux will be twenty years old this summer. On August 26, 1991 Linus Torvalds posted a message to the comp.os.minix newsgroup that started like this. "Hello everybody out there using minix. I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been…
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CSEE undergraduates present work at URCAD
Congratulations to the CSEE undergraduate students and groups who will be presenting posters on their research as part of the Fifteenth Annual UMBC Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day. UCRAD features research, scholarship, and creative work carried out by UMBC undergraduates. Natée Johnson, X-Ray Study of Nano-Scale Superlattice Materials, 3:15pm-3:30pm, UC 310, Mentor: Dr. Fow-Sen Choa…
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Computing enrollments up 10% nationwide
The CRA reports that total enrollments among U.S. computer science undergraduates increased 10% in 2010 based on data from its most recent annual Taulbee Survey. This is the third straight year of increases in total enrollment and indicates that the post “dot-com crash” decline in undergraduate computing program enrollments is over. The Taulbee Survey is…
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Subjects sought for Python programming study
Last chance to participate & enter drawing for a free iPod Nano! We are a group of students who are performing a research study to investigate how students learn and improve their performance at different aspects of Python programming. For the study, we are looking for students who are currently enrolled in CMSC 201 or…
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Curt Tilmes dissertation defense, Data Provenance, 10am Thr 3/31
Dissertation Defense Enabling Reproducibility of Scientific Data Flows through Tracking and Representation of Provenance Curt Tilmes 10:00am Thursday, 31 March 2011 ITE 325b, UMBC Reproducibility of results is a key tenet of science. Some modern scientific domains, such as Earth Science, have become computationally complicated and, particularly with the advent of higher resolution space based…
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Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Tutorial, 4pm Fri 4/1 UMBC
UMBC Linux Users Group SELinux Talk and Tutorial David Quigley Advanced Engineering & Development, Keyw Corporation 4:00pm Friday, 1 April 2011 Room 229 ITE, UMBC Over a decade ago researchers at the National Information Assurance Research Lab at the NSA identified a need for flexible mandatory access controls to help provide a solid foundation for…
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Leslie Valiant receives ACM Turing Award
The Association for Computing Machinery named Harvard's Leslie Valiant the winner of the 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award for "his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science." "Valiant brought together machine learning and computational complexity, leading to advances in artificial intelligence as well as computing…
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2011 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The 11th Annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing has opened its Call for Participation. The annual conference, presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, is the world's largest gathering of women in computing. The 2011 CHC will take place from 9-12 November 9-12 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland,…