Category: CSEE
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MS defense: Problem selection of program tracing tasks in an intelligent tutoring system
Master's Thesis Defense Announcement Problem Selection of Program Tracing Tasks in an Intelligent Tutoring System and Visual Programming Environment David Walser 2:00pm Thursday, 28 April 2011, ITE 325b Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have been shown to be an effective supplementary teaching tool or aid for many domains. Applying ITSs in open-ended domains such as computer…
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Maryland Cyber Conference and Challenge (MDC3)
The Maryland Cyber Challenge and Conference site is up and student teams can now register for the competition, with the first qualifying round early in September. It is a chance to demonstrate your ability to work in a team and your cybersecurity and problem solving skills. MDC3 is a joint effort between SAIC, UMBC, DBED,…
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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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talk: Cybersecurity Threat is Real (new time: 10am)
The Threat is Real Sherri Ramsay Director, NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center 10:00am Friday 22 April 2011, 229 ITE Sherri Ramsay, the Director of the National Security Agency's National Threat Operations Center, will present an overview of contemporary issues in cybersecurity entitled "The Threat is Real". The NSA Threat Operations Center monitors the operations of the…
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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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Cyber Defense Team meeting, Noon 4/4 ITE 325b
The UMBC Cyber Defense Team, aka the Cyberdawgs, will host a technical briefing on Monday April 4 featuring two guest speakers from the DoD. The topic will be the cyber competitions between the service academies, and other cyber-related topics may come up as well. The meeting will be held in the CSEE conference room, ITE…