Category: News
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talk: Energy Efficient and High Performance Architectures for DSP and Communication Applications
11:30am Fri 3/9:UMBC Professor Tinoosh Mohsenin talks about her research on Energy Efficient and High Performance Architectures for DSP and Communication Applications at 11:30m on Friday, March 9th, 2012 in room ITE 231 at UMBC.
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Need Homework Help? Ask Dan…
A Sophomore Computer Science major, Dan Maselko has been a tutor in the Computer Science Help Center since last fall. Dan Maselko got hooked on computer science in high school. “When I took my first computer programming course in tenth grade,” he says, “I realized how easy and fun it was for me to get…
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Niels Kasch PhD Defense: Mining Commonsense Knowledge from the Web
10am Fri 3/9: Niels Kasch defends his Ph.D. dissertation on Mining Commonsense Knowledge from the Web at 10:00am on Friday March 9, 2012 in ITE325b at UMBC.
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Next Century Corporation Comes to the Classroom
This semester, the students in Susan Mitchell’s Software Design and Development course were hand-picked. After applying and being interviewed, ten students were chosen based on their “go-getter” attitude. Why the selectivity? Susan ’s CMSC 345 course this semester is a trial course that’s being taught in collaboration with Next Century Corporation, a Maryland-based technology company.…
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talk: Interactive visual computing for knowledge discovery in science, engineering and training
1pm Wed 3/7: Dr. Jian Chen of the University of Southern Mississippi will talk about her research on Interactive visual computing for knowledge discovery in science, engineering and training at 1:00pm on Wednesday, March 7 in room ITE 325b at UMBC.
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talk: Using Static Analysis to Diagnose Misconfigured Open Source Systems Software
1pm Mon 3/5: Ariel Rabkin of UC Berkeley talks about his research on Using Static Analysis to Diagnose Misconfigured Open Source Systems Software at 1:00pm on Monday March 5 in ITE 325b, UMBC.
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The Princeton Review recognizes UMBC's Video Game Design program
UMBC has earned an honorable mention on The Princeton Review’s recently released list: “Top Schools to Study Video Game Design for 2012.” The recognition places UMBC among schools like Georgia Institute of Technology, UC Santa Cruz, and Northeastern University. Released annually, the list features 50 schools from around the country, including their “top ten” undergraduate…
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In the News: driverless cars and digital intersections
The buzz about driverless cars erupted after Google received a patent for the technology in December of last year. Since then, the project has been steadily moving forward. A few days ago, Google started testing their vehicles on Nevada roads, following approval by the state’s Legislative Commission. With the inevitability of autonomous transportation creeping closer,…
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He dances, he climbs, he teaches Computer Science: Meet Max
Meet Max, a Teaching Assistant who loves climbing mountains, swing dancing, and Artificial Intelligence. “I’ve never been bored in my life,” says Maksym Morawski (call him Max), a Computer Science graduate student who spends most of his free time scaling mountains. Originally from Silver Spring, Max moved to Baltimore in 2006 to study Computer Science…
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talk: Building and Testing Distributed Systems
1pm Fri 3/2: Dr. Charles Killian of Purdue University will talk about his research on Building and Testing Distributed Systems at 1:00pm on Friday, 2 March 2012 in room ITE325 at UMBC.