Category: News
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CSEE Professor Dr. Penny Rheingans receives USM Regents Faculty Award for Mentoring
Dr. Rheingans has been the Director of UMBC’s Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) since the summer of 2009. Since then, she has mentored over a hundred students within the CWIT and SITE scholarship programs. Congratulations to Dr. Penny Rheingans, the recipient of one of this year’s University System of Maryland (USM) Regents’ Faculty Awards…
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CSEE graduate student's company receives NCI research award
UMBC Computer Science Ph.D. student Adrian Rosebrock and the company he founded and heads, ShiftyBits LLC, were recently awarded a competitive research contract from the National Cancer Institutes (NCI/NIH) to conduct research and development in the use of image processing and machine learning techniques to automatically analyze histology images of the breast. Through the awarded…
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2012 Google Summer of Code Applications open March 26
Apply to the 2012 Google Summer of Code 3/26 — 4/6 to earn $5000 coding for an open source project.
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Dr. desJardins competes in American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
Congratulations to Dr. Marie desJardins, who placed 44th out of 593 competitors in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn, New York last weekend. The tournament—directed by New York Times Crossword Puzzle Editor Will Shortz—is the nation’s oldest and largest crossword competition. Competitors are judged based on their accuracy and speed while solving eight original…
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UMBC Cyberdawgs are recruiting
UMBC's Cyber Defense Team is looking for new members. This semester the team competed in the Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship. In this competition, each team defended a mock corporate network against a horde of professional hackers in a fast-paced, real-time event over the course of two days. These competitions are a great way to network…
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talk: Interaction with Virtual Environments, 3/27
1pm 3/27: Dr. Tabitha Peck of the University of Barcelona Event Lab will present her research on Interaction with Virtual Environments at 1:00pm Tuesday 27 March in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
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talk: Securing Cyber-Physical Systems, 3/26
1pm 3/26: Dr. Alvaro A. Cárdenas of Fujitsu Laboratories of America will talk about his research on Securing Cyber-Physical Systems at 1:00pm on Monday, 16 March 2012 in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
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Talk: Kapitanova on Addressing failures in wireless sensor networks
1pm 3/28: Krasimira Kapitanova talks about her research on Addressing failures in wireless sensor networks at 1:00pm on Wednesday, 28 March 2012 in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
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Judea Pearl wins 2011 Turing Award
Judea Pearl has won the 2011 A.M. Turing Award for "fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning." Pearl pioneered the use of Bayesian networks and causal modeling as an approach to reasoning with uncertain knowledge and made man other contributions to probabilistic approaches to artificial…
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talk: Transition from the Academic World to Corporate Culture, 11:30 Fri 3/16
11:30am 3/16: George W. Reynolds, the Director, Industry and University Initiatives at Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems will talk about “From Backpack to Briefcase: Transition from the Academic World to Corporate Culture” at 11:30am on Friday, 16 March 2012 in ITE 237.