Category: News
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Introducing the inagural batch of T-SITE scholars
Photo: The Retriever Weekly This August, UMBC welcomed its inagural batch of Transfer Scholars in Information Technology and Engineering (T-SITE) Scholars (pictured above). The brainchild of a team of seven women sprinkled throughout IT and Engineering departments in the College of Engineering and Information Technology at UMBC, the T-SITE scholarship program offers support–financial and otherwise–to…
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Apply for a Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship, courtesy Facebook
Photo: Gracehopper.org Facebook has announced that it will award scholarships to 25 women who wish to attend the upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference that will take place at the Baltimore Convention center October 3-6. This year's theme is "Are We There Yet?" Applicants must be women studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering,…
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Baltimore Innovation Week 2012 calendar released
An initial 20 event calendar for the first-ever Baltimore Innovation Week has just been released. Organized by local tech news site Technically Baltimore, the annual event, held from September 20-30, is a celebration of technology and innovation in Baltimore. Its goal is to encourage local innovation through programming focused on technology, collaboration, and improving the…
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Joshi and Finin receive NSF award to study information extraction
Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin have received a $200,000 research award from the NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems for a two-year project focused on extrating information from tables.
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Ashwinkumar Ganesan MS defense: Calculating Representativeness of Geographic Sites Across the World
11am Fri 8/31: Ashwinkumar Ganesan will defense his MS thesis, Calculating Representativeness of Geographic Sites Across the World, at 11:00am Friday, 31 August 2012 in room ITE 325b at UMBC.
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All students invited to Office of Undergraduate Education Open House
This Friday, August 31, new and returning students are invited to the Office of Undergraduate Education's Open House. Held from Noon to 2 p.m. in the Academic IV Building (Room 114), the event is a chance to talk about First Year Seminars, The New Student Book Experience, Undergraduate Research, and an Introduction to an Honors…
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Amey Sane MS defense: Predicting the activities of mobile phone with HMMs
9am Tue 8/28: Amey Sane defends his MS thesis, Predicting the Activities of Mobile Phone Users with Hidden Markov Models, at 9:00am Tuesday, 28 August 2012, in room ITE 325b at UMBC.
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UMBC homepage gets make-over
If, in getting to this post, you navigated straight to myUMBC and bypassed UMBC's home page, you probably haven't seen its new look. The update is part of a long term project to improve UMBC's web presence. "Our marketing and recruitment efforts demand a cutting edge homepage, and the innovation and expertise of our faculty…
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Nikhil Puranik MS defense: Classification of Column Data, 8/24
Nikhil Puranik will defend his MS thesis, A Specialist Approach for Classification of Column Data, at 1:30pm on Friday August 24 in room 325b in the ITE building at UMBC.
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PhD defense: Niyati Chhaya — Joint Inference for Extracting Soft Biometric Text Descriptors from Patient Triage Images
Fri 8/24: Niyati Chhaya will defend her PhD dissertation on Joint Inference for Extracting Soft Biometric Text Descriptors from Patient Triage Images at 10:00am on Friday, 24 August 2012 in room ITE 325b, at UMBC