Category: Events

  • Nirenburg: Cognitive Architecture for Simulating Bodies and Minds, 2/18

    Sergei Nirenburg presents ‘A Cognitive Architecture for Simulating Bodies and Minds’, 1pm fri 18 Feb, ITE227, UMBC

  • CWIT Bits and Bytes

    The UMBC Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT) will hold the second Bits & Bytes event on February 20-21, 2011 for academically talented young women who are juniors in high school and excel in math and science. This year's event is sponsored by Northrop Grumman and is intended to engage local high school girls…

  • Volunteer for the MD FIRST Lego League championship

    UMBC will host the 2011 FIRST Lego League Maryland State Championship on Saturday February 26 in the UMBC Retriever Activities Center. The UMBC organizers, led by UMBC Mechanical Engineering Professor Anne Spence, need volunteers from the UMBC community to help on the tournament day as well as to help set up in on Friday. If…

  • Luebke: GPU Computing: Past, Present and Future, 1pm Fri Feb 4, ITE227

    Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County GPU Computing: Past, Present, and Future Dr. David Luebke Director of Research, NVIDIA Corporation 1:00-2:15pm Friday, 4 February 2011, ITE 227 Modern GPUs have outgrown their graphics heritage in many ways to emerge as the world's most successful parallel computing architecture. The GPUs that consumers…

  • CSEE grad student documentary film: LEVÉ HAITI

    Huguens Jean, '03, '11, Ph.D., electrical engineering, and Clifford Muse '11, information systems, returned to Haiti in March 2010, after the devastating January earthquake, to fulfill their grandfather's last request of them. As he was dying of cancer, he asked that at his funeral they celebrate his life and "find the joy." "I had no…

  • Guidelines for smart grid cybersecurity, 2/15/2011

    The North American electric power system has been called the world's largest interconnected machine and is a key part of our national infrastructure. The power grid is evolving to better exploit modern information technology and become more integrated with our cyber infrastructure. This presents unprecedented opportunities for enhanced management and efficiency but also introduces vulnerabilities…

  • Palanivel Kodeswaran dissertation defense, 10am 1/31/11

      Palanivel Kodeswaran will defend his Ph.D. dissertation, "On the use of context and policies in declarative networked systems", at 10:00am on Monday, 31 January in ITE 325. The research was directed by Professor Anupan Joshi. The defense is open to the public. Abstract: Managing complex networks while ensuring that certain high level goals such…

  • Global Game Jam at UMBC, 28-30 January

      UMBC will be the Baltimore host site for the 2011 Global Game Jam, an international computer game making festival taking place this coming weekend, January 28th-30th. This is a 48 hour event, where teams from around the globe work to each develop a complete game over one weekend. The first year had 54 sites…