Category: News
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PhD Defense: Clustering and Visualization Techniques for Aggregate Trajectory Analysis
1pm 3/15 David Trimm defends his Ph.D. dissertation on “Clustering and Visualization Techniques for Aggregate Trajectory Analysis” at 1:00pm on Thursday March 15, 2012.
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Dr. Hillol Kargupta to speak at VERGE
Dr. Hillol Kargupta will be one of over 80 speakers at GreenBiz's VERGE conference in Washinton D.C., which takes place this Wednesay, March 14–16. The conference foucses on sustainability by exploring technological advances that deal with energy, information, buildings, and transportation. Speakers include the likes of AOL Co-founder, Steve Case, Robin Chase, founder of carsharing…
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Cyberdawgs make it to CyberWatch regional competition
The UMBC’s Cyber Defense club, the Cyberdawgs, will be one of eight schools vying for the win at the CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Regional Finals. The competition, the first of its kind to focus on the operational aspects of protecting and managing an existing “commercial†network infrastructure, will take place at the Johns…
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New T-SITE scholarship program targets tech transfer students
Next fall, a new scholarship program geared toward transfer students majoring in technology fields will offer ten students the support—both financial and otherwise—that they need. It’s called T-SITE (Transfer-Scholarships in Information Technology and Engineering), and similar to the previous SITE (Scholars in Information Technology and Engineering) program, is supported by an NSF S-STEM grant. The…
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talk: Self-sustainable Cyber-physical System Design
1pm Tue 3/13: Dr. Nilanjan Banerjee (U. Arkansas Fayetteville) talks about his research on designing a Hierarchical Power Management paradigm that combines platforms with varied energy needs to balance energy consumption and functionality, the design of an efficient harvester for sound scavenging, and sensitive ECG sensors at 1:00pm on Tuesday March 13 in ITE325b at…
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Baltimore to host 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference will take place 3-6 October at the Baltimore Convention Center.
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Greater Baltimore Technology Council event calendar
The Greater Baltimore Technology Council has a new calendar for Baltimore-area events.
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Professor desJardins attends Grace Hopper and Frontiers of Engineering Education Conferences
Dr. Marie desJardins had the opportunity to attend two invitation-only professional development events in November 2011. The Senior Women's Summit at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Portland, Oregon, brought together senior women who are leaders in their fields in academia, industry, and research labs. The event featured a panel on career…
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talk: Correlation Aware Optimizations for Analytic Databases
1pm Fri 3/9: Hideaki Kimura of Brown University talks about solving the computing challenges of big data analytics. He will describe a novel data correlation-aware approach to indexing, replication, and data placement which makes big data analytics faster and more scalable. 1:00pm on Friday March 9 in ITE325b, UMBC.