Category: CSEE
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Baltimoregamer.com, for all your gaming news needs
If you're interested in what's going on in Baltimore's gaming scene, check out Baltimoregamer.com. The site covers local gaming events in the Baltimore and D.C. area, as well as developments in the game industry, and career tips for aspiring video game developers. The site also includes features articles, like its three-part series called "So You…
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2012 Maryland Cyber Challenge competition open for registration
The 2012 2012 Maryland Cyber Challenge (MDC3) is open for registration with qualifying rounds in September and finals 16-17 October at the Cyber-Maryland Conference at the Baltimore Convention Center.
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Computer Science Education Mini-Summit addresses CS Curricula problem
Did you know that Computer Science isn’t a required course in most Maryland High Schools (or colleges for that matter)? For most students, a lack of exposure early on translates to total avoidance once they reach college. For a subject as ubiquitous as computing, it is essential to Maryland's continued success as a technology leader…
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UMD professor pushes for better Computer Science education in high schools
In a recent essay in the Baltimore Sun, James M. Purtilo, a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, outlines the myriad ways that Maryland is failing to support Computer Science education at the High School level. First, Purtilo cites the state's failure to require Computer Science as a…
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New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, an Inspiration for Computer Science Women
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) "Despite the growing numbers of successful women in once male-dominated professions like medicine and law, computer science remains overwhelmingly a boys club." So says a recent NPR article that discusses the arrival of Marissa Mayer as Yahoo's new president and CEO. As one of Google's first employees, Mayer helped develop…
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Chandrasekaran MS Defense: MIMO Channel Modeling and Capacity Using the Channel Correlation Matrix
Anush Chandrasekaran will defends his MS thesis on “On MIMO Channel Modeling and Capacity Using the Channel Correlation Matrix” at 1pm on 18 July 2012 in 325b ITE.
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UMBC receives NSF award to develop new freshman seminar for computing majors
UMBC received a three year award from NSF that provides $154,000 in funding to develop and evaluate an innovative first-year seminar for computing majors aimed at increasing retention, completion, and success.
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Integrated Distributed-Bragg-Reflector Thermally Tunable Quantum Cascade Lasers
10am 6/22: Liwei Cheng will defend his Ph.D. dissertation on the Fabrication and Operation of Integrated Distributed-Bragg-Reflector Thermally Tunable Quantum Cascade Lasers.
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Ahmad Abbas takes home DIY/Hacker prize at Baltimore Hackathon
In its second year, the Baltimore Hackathon invites teams or individuals to build a hardware or software project from start to finish. Sporting the slogan "Meet People. Build Stuff. Have Fun.", this year's competition was held in Tide Point from June 8–10. Among the more than ninety participants was UMBC student Ahmad Abbas, who took…
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talk: Via on Multi-Antenna Spectrum Sensing, 6/22
2pm 6/22 Javier Via will talk about his research on Multi-antenna Spectrum Sensing: From GLRTs to LMPITs