Category: Graduate

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • CSEE IT Jobs Summer 2011 and Beyond

    The CSEE Department at UMBC has IT job positions available.  The positions include a Web Administrator and System Administrator.  Full descriptions for each position below.  Details include how to apply and what information is expected to be provided. Student Web Administrator position. This position is a hybrid of providing support for the CSEE Web portals,…

  • 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…

  • Serial entrepreneur David Turock to talk at Baltimore Emerging Technology Center

    The Baltimore ACM Chapter, the Greater Baltimore Technology Council, and the Emerging Technology Center are hosting a free, public lecture on entrepreneurship by David Turock at 7:00pm, Wednesday 27 April in the ETC Canton facility (2400 Boston St., Baltimore). David Turock will present a side-by-side comparison of two telecommunications start-ups that he launched: one successful,…

  • 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…

  • Lecture on Distributed Quantum Algorithms, 2:30pm Web 3/30

    Professor Samuel Lomonaco will present a lecture on Distributed Quantum Algorithms from 2:30 to 3:45 on Wednesday March 30 in room ITE 325b. In the talk, Professor Lomonaco will show how quantum entanglement can be used as a mechanism for controlling a network of quantum computers. The talk is open to all.

  • Curt Tilmes dissertation defense, Data Provenance, 10am Thr 3/31

    Dissertation Defense Enabling Reproducibility of Scientific Data Flows through Tracking and Representation of Provenance Curt Tilmes 10:00am Thursday, 31 March 2011 ITE 325b, UMBC Reproducibility of results is a key tenet of science. Some modern scientific domains, such as Earth Science, have become computationally complicated and, particularly with the advent of higher resolution space based…