Category: Events
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MS defense: A Framework for GPU 3D Model Reconstruction Using Structure-from-Motion
MS Defense A Framework for GPU 3D Model Reconstruction Using Structure-from-Motion Yu Wang 10:00am Thursday, 28 April 2011, ITE 352 A framework for three-dimensional (3D) model reconstruction is described in this thesis. The primary application is scanning forest canopies and assisting scientific applications such as fire hazard evaluation and vegetation biomass estimation, using photos taken…
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MS defense: eXtensible Dynamic Form (XDF) for Supplier Discovery
MS Thesis Defense eXtensible Dynamic Form (XDF) for Supplier Discovery Yan Kang 1:00PM Tuesday, 26 April 2011, ITE 346 Discovery of suppliers (supplier discovery) is essential for building a flexible network of suppliers in a supply chain. The first step for supplier discovery is to collect manufacturing capabilities of suppliers and requirements of customers. In…
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MS defense: Recovering from Soft Node Failures in Wireless Sensor Networks using Neural Networks
MS Thesis Defense Recovering from Soft Node Failures in Wireless Sensor Networks using Neural Networks Shivvasangari Subramani 9:00am Tuesday, 26 April 2011, ITE 346 In the past few years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become important in different applications because of their robustness in hostile environments. WSNs need to perform in a timely manner in…
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MS defense: Graph-Theoretic Approach to Collusion Detection in Multi-Agent Systems
MS Thesis Defense A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Collusion Detection in Multi-Agent Systems Peter Hamilton 9:00am Thursday, 28 April 28 2011, ITE 325B The study of trust and cooperation is a major component of multi-agent systems research. Such work often focuses on how best to estimate the reliability of a speciï¬Âc agent, or how to create…
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MS defense: Feature Extraction using a Hierarchical Growing Neural Gas
M.S. Thesis Defense Announcement Feature Extraction using a Hierarchical Growing Neural Gas Roger Guseman 12:00pm 25 April 2011, ITE 210 Unsupervised, data-driven, automatic feature extraction from image data is an interesting and difficult problem. High dimensional data, such as images, often contain less information than they do data. For an agent to better reason about…
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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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talk: Working Together Apart, 12:00 4/29
Spring 2011 Information Systems Distinguished Lecture Working Together Apart Dr. Judy Olson Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine 12:00pm Friday, 29 April 2011, ITE Lecture Hall VII Our research group has been investigating the factors that make long distance teamwork work. I will review that work and talk about…
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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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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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Visionaries in IT Forum May 4: Catherine Kuenzel of Northrop Grumman
Catherine Kuenzel of Northrop Grummon will speak on Your Future in Emerging Technologies as part of the UMBC Visionaries in Information Technology Forum on May 4, 2011. Her talk will cover emerging technologies in health, homeland security, cyber security and renewable energy. Kuenzel is the the Vice President of Federal Mission Programs for the Civil…