Category: News
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Talk: Genetic information for chronic disease prediction
Genetic information for chronic disease prediction Michael A. Grasso, MD, PhD University of Maryland School of Medicine 1:00pm Friday 23 September 2011, 227 ITE Type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease are commonly occurring polygenic-multifactorial diseases, which are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. The identification of people at risk for these conditions has historically…
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Camilla Hyman joins CSEE staff
Ms. Camilla Hyman recently joined the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Staff as the Business Services Specialist for the department. Ms. Hyman has replaced Ms. Donna Meyers, who retired at the end of Spring 2011. This summer, Camilla Hyman joined the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department as Business Services Specialist–a role that had been…
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talk: Analysis of Brain Network Connectivity in fMRI Data using Spatial Dependence
EE Graduate Seminar Analysis of Brain Network Connectivity in fMRI Data using Spatial Dependence Sai Ma EE PhD Candidate, CSEE Dept, UMBC 11:30-12:45 Friday 9 September 2011, ITE 231 Due to low invasiveness and high spatial resolution, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become popular in neuroimaging field to determine where activity occurs in brain…
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Citizen Science on the Social and Semantic Web, PhD proposal, Joel Sachs
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Citizen Science on the Social and Semantic Web Joel Sachs 9:00-11:00am Friday 9 September 2011 Room 325b, ITE Building, UMBC A question faced by semantic web developers is how much explicit semantics to include in their ontologies. A typical answer is that it depends on the use case, since different use cases…
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Prof. desJardins receives NSF grant to study teaching computers to follow verbal instructions
Professor Marie desJardins receied a three year grant from NSF's Robust Intelligence program to develop techniques that will permit a computer or robot to learn from examples to carry out multipart tasks specified in natural language on behalf of a user. The project, Teaching Computers to Follow Verbal Instructions, is part of a collaborative effort…
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Microsoft at UMBC Tue 9/6 to discuss internship and full-time positions
Microsoft will be on campus to meet with undergraduate and graduate students interested in internship and full-time positions in the Seattle area. Interested students should come to the the Skylight Room in the Commons between 6:30 and 7:30pm on Tuesday September 6. There are opportunities for Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Information Systems…
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President Freeman Hrabowski on UMBC's Cybersecurity Strategy
UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski was recently interviewed by The Daily Record on UMBC's educational and research programs in cybersecurity and their importance to the region and nation. "We anticipate significant growth in this area over the next five years as the nation continues to stand up our cybersecurity resources. In addition, cybersecurity has implications for…
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Google Maps Hurricane Irene tracker
click on the image to go to the Hurricane Irene tracker Google's Crisis Response team has a Hurricane Irene tracker that overlays Google maps. The application shows the hurricane path along with several additional, customizable layers of data: weather radar, cloud imagery, storm surge probabilities. evacuation routes and shelter sites.
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Talk: Opportunities in Computational Materials Science
Opportunities in Computational Materials Science Juana Moreno and Randall Hall Center for Computation and Technology Louisiana State University 1:00pm Friday 9 September 2011, ITE 227 The White House Materials Genome Initiative intends to double the speed with which we discover, develop, and manufacture new materials. In order for this initiative to be successful an unprecedented…
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New CSEE graduate student orientation, 9am Thr 8/25
The CSEE department will hold an orientation session for new graduate students in its Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering programs at 9:00am Thursday August 25 in Lecture Hall 8 (ITE 102). Here is the schedule. 09:00-09:30am Registration 09:30-09:45am Welcome, CSEE Department Chair Dr. Gary Carter 09:45-10:15am Success Strategies, Dr. Tim Finin 10:15-10:45am CSEE…