Category: News
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Karuna Joshi speaks about Cloud Computing
“I think it’s more than a jargon,” says Karuna Joshi of Cloud Computing, a topic she will discuss this Friday during a Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department Colloquium, “It’s an actual paradigm shift.” Ms. Joshi, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UMBC, has been pursing research on Cloud Computing for the past three…
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Nominate books for UMBC's new student book experience
Read anything interesting lately? Why not nominate it for next year’s new student book experience. UMBC’s summer reading connects new freshmen and transfer students with other students, faculty, and staff at the start of the academic year, providing an intellectually stimulating interaction that welcomes new students into the UMBC community. You can now use a…
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NSF awards UMBC $1.8M for Global Collaboration Engine for Land Change Science
A group of UMBC faculty members was recently awarded a 4-year, National Science Foundation (NSF) grant totaling $1.8 million to pursue work with “Global Collaboration Engine” (GLOBE), a “globally relevant search engine.” “Our objective is to change the way land change scientists do business,” explains Dr. Erle Ellis, associate professor of Geography and Environmental Systems,…
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Undergraduate Researcher Profile: Alexander Morrow
Alexander Morrow is a Sophomore majoring in Computer Science. His research explores predictive model uncertainty. To learn more about Alexander's research, read his research profile.
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UMBC named NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center
UMBC has been named an NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center following the submission of a proposal by Dr. Marc Olano, professor, and Dr. Shujia Zhou, research associate professor of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department. The NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center Program will provide UMBC with enough high-end GPUs to upgrade the UMBC GAIM (Games, Animation…
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talk: How to raise capital in MD, 4pm Tue 9/27
How to Raise Capital in Maryland Art Jacoby Managing Partner, Maryland Cyber Investment Partners 4:00pm Tuesday 27 September 2011 Courtyard Meeting Room Maryland Clean Energy TechnologyIncubator (CETI) UMBC Sounth Campus Capital is the fuel your business needs to drive growth but raising it will be one of the most daunting challenges you will face as…
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Take the NSA Cryptochallenge, 11-5 Friday 9/30, The Commons
NSA will be at the Commons for this year's CryptoChallenge competition. Stop by and test your skills against their cryptographic brain teasers and maybe score some great giveaways. Join them for some friendly competition from 11:00am to 5:00pm on Friday 30 September at the Commons Outside Terrace or Main Street if it rains. Bring your…
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Undergraduate Researcher Profile: Joshua Sunday
Joshua Sunday is a Senior majoring in Computer Engineering. He has been doing research in Dr. Slaughter's Bioelectronics Laboratory since last Spring. To learn more about Joshua's research pursuits, read his research profile.
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talk: Intelligent Agents in the OntoAgent Cognitive Architecture
EE Graduate Seminar Intelligent Agents in the OntoAgent Cognitive Architecture Professor Sergei Nirenburg Director, Institute for Language and Information Technologies Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County 11:30am-12:45pm Friday 30 September 2011, ITE 231 OntoAgent is a constantly evolving cognitive architecture that facilitates development of and experimentation with artificial intelligent agents (ontoagents).…
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Considering graduate school in a computing field?
The Computing Community Consortium has a new web site for undergraduates in computing fields hoping to learn more about doing research, summer research opportunities, and the process for applying to graduate school. The website contains: A section on what graduate school in computer science is all about, including frequently asked questions with answers by current…