Category: News
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Tim Finin
Dr. Tim Finin, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, specializes in artificial intelligence and has been working on developing smart phones that can guage their user's "context." “What I have always found interesting since I was an Undergraduate was the idea that we could make machines as smart as people,” explains Dr. Finin, whose…
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Happy birthday World Wide Web
Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary about the new World Wide Web project on the public alt.hypertext newsgroup. A copy of the first Web page mentioned in his post is hosted by the W3C. The Web is arguably the most significant computing technology that has been developed in the forty years,…
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Shawn Lupoli joins CSEE faculty
The Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering would like to welcome new lecturer, Shawn Lupoli, to the department. Mr. Lupoli will be teaching CMSC 201 (Introduction to Computer Science) and CMSC 104 (Problem Solving and Computer Programming) at UMBC this Fall. Shawn Lupoli’s interest in robotics sparked when he was pursing an undergraduate degree…
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MS defense: Fast Fullchip Transient Response Estimation Technique
MS thesis defense A Fast Fullchip Transient Response Estimation Technique Sushmita K. Rao 11:00am Monday, 25 July 2011, ITE 346 Circuit Simulation has long been a dependable technique for design engineers for functional testing before a circuit is taken to silicon. But as we move into very deep sub-micron technologies, chips are becoming more complex…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Penny Rheingans
Dr. Penny Rheingans, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, co-directs UMBC's VAnGOGH lab, where she uses her knowledge in data visualization to solve problems in a variety of application areas. “I think it’s a really cool area because it allows me to synthesize things from a number of areas,” says Rheingans of the field,…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin
Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin, professor of computer science and electrical engeineering, runs UMBC's Engergy Efficient High Performance Computing Lab, where she works to develop highly accurate, low-power communications and healthcare devices. Currently, Dr. Mohsenin is pursuing three distinct projects in conjunction with her lab that fall within the realm of digital signal processing (DSP) and…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Fow-Sen Choa
Dr. Fow-Sen Choa, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, uses a Chemical Vapor Desposition System to grow semiconductors that are used for chemical detection and breath analysis using photo-acoustic (PA) effects. In addition, he has been working with undergraduate students at UMBC on projects dealing with flying robots, Fourier analysis of music instrument, x-ray…
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PhD defense: Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Finding a Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop Dean Earl Wright III 9:00am Wednesday 26 July 17 August 2011, ITE325 UMBC The field of Artificial Intelligence has seen steady advances in cognitive systems. However, many of these systems perform poorly when faced with situations outside of their training. And as…
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MS defense: Mitigating Coverage Loss in Wireless Sensor Networks
MS Thesis Defense Distributed Approach for Mitigating Coverage Loss in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor networks Kavin Rathinam Kasinathan 10:00am 15 July 2011, ITE 325b In a heterogeneous wireless sensor network, nodes with different sensing capabilities are dispersed throughout an area of interest. Nodes with similar capabilities are not necessarily collocated. When a node fails, the area…
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Is a smartphone your Internet portal?
Today’s Washington Post article, As smartphones proliferate, some users are cutting the computer cord, describes how smartphones are enabling a “always-on, Internet-on-the-go society”. “A third of all American adults own a smartphone and for many minority and low income users, those mobile devices have replaced computers for Internet access. The findings released Monday by the…