Category: News
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Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee honored at Olympic Games opening ceremony
Tim Berners-Lee honored in 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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New Apple OS, Mountain Lion, available today
Photo courtesy bgr.com Attention Apple fans: the company's much anticipated OS X Mountain Lion is finally available to download starting today, reports Mashable.com. The latest OS update boasts over 200 new features including full iCloud integration, built in sharing to social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, and Messages, an instant message tools that connects…
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Venkatesh MS defense: Dynamically Reconfigurable Layered Filesystem
Sunil Venkatesh will defend his MS thesis on Dynamically Reconfigurable Layered Filesystem at 10:00am on Thursday, 26 July 2012 in ITE 325b.
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UMBC alumnus Sean Kennedy featured on InTheCapital.com for BeerGivr app
"I owe you a beer" is a phrase that's thrown around a lot with very little follow through. UMBC Alumnus Sean Kennedy (Information Systems '06) created a smartphone application that could change that. BeerGivr allows you to virtualy send your buddy a brew. When a friend wants to buy you a drink but can't make…
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Computer Science Education Mini-Summit addresses CS Curricula problem
Did you know that Computer Science isn’t a required course in most Maryland High Schools (or colleges for that matter)? For most students, a lack of exposure early on translates to total avoidance once they reach college. For a subject as ubiquitous as computing, it is essential to Maryland's continued success as a technology leader…
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Technology as a teaching tool: an infographic
Take a look at the latest infographic from Edudemic.com. (Click here for a version that you can actually read.) It's called "Components of a 21st Century Classroom" and it looks at how technology, like computers, tablets, and other mobile devices, are being increasingly incorporated into the classroom. With number like "1 in 5 students have…
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UMD professor pushes for better Computer Science education in high schools
In a recent essay in the Baltimore Sun, James M. Purtilo, a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, outlines the myriad ways that Maryland is failing to support Computer Science education at the High School level. First, Purtilo cites the state's failure to require Computer Science as a…
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New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, an Inspiration for Computer Science Women
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) "Despite the growing numbers of successful women in once male-dominated professions like medicine and law, computer science remains overwhelmingly a boys club." So says a recent NPR article that discusses the arrival of Marissa Mayer as Yahoo's new president and CEO. As one of Google's first employees, Mayer helped develop…
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MS thesis defense: Abbas on Federating Disjoint Wireless Networks Using a Mix of Stationary and Mobile Nodes
Ahmad Abbas will defend his MS thesis on Federating Disjoint Wireless Networks Using a Mix of Stationary and Mobile Nodes at 12:00pm Thursday, 26th July 2012 in room ITE 325b
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Chandrasekaran MS Defense: MIMO Channel Modeling and Capacity Using the Channel Correlation Matrix
Anush Chandrasekaran will defends his MS thesis on “On MIMO Channel Modeling and Capacity Using the Channel Correlation Matrix” at 1pm on 18 July 2012 in 325b ITE.