Category: CSEE
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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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talk: Rutledge on multichannel amplitude compression for speech processing, 11/18
EE Graduate Seminar Time-Varying Amplitude Compression Processing to Preserve and Enhance Spectral Contrast in Speech Signals Dr. Janet C. Rutledge Dean, UMBC Graduate School Vice-Provost for Graduate Education Affiliate Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering 11:30-12:45 Friday, 18 November 2011, ITE 231 Multichannel amplitude compression processing is used to reduce the level variations of speech to fit…
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Talk: Stochastic Graph Grammars, Oates, 11/11/11
EE Graduate Seminar Stochastic Graph Grammars Prof. Tim Oates Associate Professor of Computer Science Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC 11:30am Friday November 11, ITE 231, UMBC Many important domains are naturally described relationally, often using graphs in which nodes correspond to entities and edges to relations. Stochastic graph grammars compactly represent probability distributions over…
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Summer research in cybersecurity and trustworthy systems
The Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) will sponsor 20 undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience located at TRUST partner campuses: UC Berkeley, Cornell University, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University. These students will work with graduate student and faculty mentors throughout the summer performing research…
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talk: Cyber Security Situation Awareness and Impact Assessment, 10:30am Tue 11/8
Cyber Security Situation Awareness and Impact Assessment: Issues, Models and Applications Dr. Gabriel Jakobson Altusys Corporation, Princeton NJ 10:30-11:30am 8 November 2011, ITE 325 Cyber attacks committed against IT networks and services have profound impact both on ongoing mission and future missions, whose operations are based on these networks and services. The attacks, by exploiting…
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Remotegrity: First Voter-Verifiable Internet Voting for Public Office
Some of this text was adapted from a press release and a post from the Scantegrity blog UMBC Professor Alan Sherman, UMBC alumnus Rick Carback (Ph.D. 2010) and many former and current UMBC students helped to develop Scantegrity, an an open source election verification technology for optical scan voting systems. In 2009, their Scantegrity II…
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talk: Functional Brain Circuits, nAChR Genes, and Smoking, 11:30am Fri 11/4
EE Graduate Seminar Functional Brain Circuits, nAChR Genes, and Smoking Dr. Elliot Hong Director, Brain Imaging Center Associate Professor Maryland Psychiatric Research Center University of Maryland School of Medicine 11:30am-12:45pm Friday, 4 Nov 11, ITE 231 About 20% of the US population smokes cigarettes. Smoking is influenced by genetic and environmental factors and mental illnesses.The…
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talk: Detection of Chemical, Biological and Explosive Materials, 11:30am Fri 10/21
EE Graduate Seminar Detection and Classification of Chemical, Biological, and Explosive Materials: A Brief Overview of Several Cutting-Edge Problem Areas Darren Emge PI and Deputy Branch Chief Laser Standoff Detection Branch US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center 11:30am-12:45pm Friday, 21 October 11, ITE 231 The detection and classification of chemical, biological, and explosive (CBE) materials…