Category: News
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CSEE at URCAD 2012
Each year, UMBC's Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) gives hardworking undergraduate researchers from all disciplines an outlet for presenting the findings of their unique research projects. On April 25th, 2012, a handful of students from the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department (CSEE) will be part of that motley crew. Click on the…
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BmoreFail: failure is not an option; it’s a requirement
The Greater Baltimore Technology Council is hosting a very interesting event on Friday, April 20th called BmoreFail — a conference celebrating failure. Entrepreneurs, investors, developers, students, designers, and others from across the innovation and creative communities will come together to learn from their failure and that of others. BmoreFail is modeled after San Francisco's famous…
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2012 UMBC CSEE Research Review: Friday May 4
Fri 5/4: The CSEE Department will hold its annual CSEE Research Review day from 9:00am to 4:00pm on Friday, May 4, 2012. Faculty, research staff and students from the Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering programs will present and discuss their latest research results via short oral presentations and a poster session.
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Catch the AROW Competition this Saturday: 4/14
This Saturday, April 14, 2012, students in the ENES101 Introduction to Engineering Science course will be competing in UMBC's second AROW competition. AROW, which stands for Academy Robotics on the Water, is an introductory engineering design experience developed by Captain Jonathan Russell, Lt. Cmdr. Brian Maggi and Stephen Grenier at the US Coast Guard Academy. …
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talk: On Far-End Crosstalk Mitigation in VDSL Systems, 11:30am Fri 4/13, ITE227
11:30 4/13: Dr. Amitkumar Mahadevan of Ikanos Communications Inc. will talk about On Far-End Crosstalk Mitigation in VDSL Systems at 11:30am on Friday, April 13 in room 227 of the UMBC ITE Building.
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talk: Virtual Human Simulator: Computer-aided Exploration of Human Biology, 1pm Fri 4/13, UMBC
1pm 4/13 Professor Andreas A. Linninger of the University of Illinois in Chicago will present developments in advanced scientific computing for discovering the fundamental transport and reaction mechanisms in biological systems.
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talk: Ram Sriram on Cyber-Physical Social Systems April 6
1pm 4/6: Dr.Ram Sriram of NIST will talk about Cyber-Physical Social Systems: Research Challenges at 1:00pm on Friday April 6, 2012 in room ITE 325 at UMBC.
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UMBC chess team ties for second place at 2012 President's Cup
UMBC’s legendary chess team tied for second place last Sunday in the 2012 President’s Cup in Herndon, Virginia. UMBC tied with the University of Texas-Dallas with a final score of 7.5 points. Both schools were bypassed for first place by Texas Tech University with a mere ½ point lead. Started by CSEE professor Dr. Alan…
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Work at Next Century Corporation
Next Century Corporation is looking for prospective software engineers to join their team as interns and full time employees. The local technology company was named one of Baltimore Magazine’s “Best Places to Work” in 2011. “Next Century is driven by something far deeper than software, hardware, and dollars and cents,” says the company’s website. “We…
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Computer Science for the rest of us
An article in the April 1 edition of New York Times, Computer Science for the Rest of Us, mentions UMBC and Marie desJardins. It describes the idea that our notion of literacy should be exapanded to include an understanding of computational processes and that all college graduates should know the basics of computational thinking. The…