Category: CSEE
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Cybersecurity Webinar, 1pm Thur June 9
Dr. Rick Forno will discuss UMBC’s Cybersecurity programs and give updated details about the upcoming Maryland Cyber Challenge at a UMBC Cybersecurity Webinar at 1:00pm on Thursday June 9. The webinar will describe the UMBC Cybersecurity programs, covering: Master of Professional Studies and graduate certificate program details Innovative curriculum highlights Convenient and flexible class schedules…
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Equation Modeling in Resting State Motor Network in Healthy Subjects, MS defense, Tejaswini Kavallappa
MSEE Thesis Defense Reliability of Structural Equation Modeling in Examining Resting State Motor Network in Healthy Subjects Tejaswini Kavallappa 3pm Monday, 16 May 2011, ITE 325 Resting state connectivity studies are of growing significance and interest in the current neuroimaging literature due to their potential in explaining various underlying brain mechanisms and, therefore, their utility…
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Group Recognition in Social Networking Systems, MS Defense by Nagapradeep Chinnam
MS Thesis Defense Group Recognition in Social Networking Systems Nagapradeep Chinnam 1:30pm Tuesday, 17 May 2011, ITE 325 Recent years have seen an exponential growth in the use of social networking systems, enabling their users to easily share information with their connections. A typical Facebook user, as an example, might have 300-400 connections which include…
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Community Detection in Twitter, MS defense by Mohit Kewalramani, 1pm Mon 5/16
MS Thesis Defense Community Detection in Twitter Mohit Kewalramani 1:00pm Monday, 16 May 2011, ITE 346 Twitter has evolved into a source of social, political and real time information in addition to being a means of mass-communication and marketing. Monitoring and analyzing information on Twitter can lead to invaluable insights, which might otherwise be hard…
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MS defense: Lohr on Semantic Light, 2:15 Thu 5/12
MS Thesis Defense Semantic Light: Building Blocks Charles Lohr 2:15pm Thursday, 12 May 2011, ITE 346 The concept of Semantic Light is simply that lighting systems can be aware of what they are lighting. This offers a number of potential advantages over conventional lighting in quality and efficiency. Semantic Light requires fine grained control of…
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CSEE Research Review awards and pictures
2011 CSEE Research Review photos · program · posters · location · call for papers The 2011 research review event was the largest to date, with more than eighty people attending. You can see pictures from the poster session and some of the presentations online. The CRR-11 program committee selected students for best research based on…
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CSEE Research Review Friday May 6
The CSEE department will hold its annual research review this Friday from 9:30am to 4:00pm at the UMBC Technology Center at South Campus. Faculty, research staff and students from all of the department's programs present and discuss their latest research results. The Research Review is open to the public and is a good way for…
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Playing to Program helps teach programming concepts
A group of CSEE students from the Maple lab is developing Playing to Program (PtP) as an intelligent tutoring system to teach programming concepts. PtP uses the open source RUR-PLE visual programming environment for Python and automatically selects and loads problems from a catalogue which the student then attempts to solve. The student's work is analyzed…
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Bmore video on the UMBC Games, Animation and Interactive Media programs
Bmore has a short video report on the UMBC GAIM programs that features CSEE Professor Marc Olano, VART Professor Neal McDonald and several GAIM students. “The video game industry may not be Maryland’s equivalent of film in Los Angeles or country music in Nashville, but it is a force. Companies such as Zynga, Firaxis, Big…
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PhD student Yasaman Haghpanah scores a DC hat trick
CSEE Ph.D. student Yasaman Haghpanah achieved a Doctoral Consortium hat trick by being invited to participate in upcoming doctoral consortium events at the top three conferences in her research area: IJCAI, AAMAS, and AAAI. Doctoral Consortia have become common in computer science research communities and provide an opportunity for a group of Ph.D. students to…