Category: News
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MS defense: Feature Extraction using a Hierarchical Growing Neural Gas
M.S. Thesis Defense Announcement Feature Extraction using a Hierarchical Growing Neural Gas Roger Guseman 12:00pm 25 April 2011, ITE 210 Unsupervised, data-driven, automatic feature extraction from image data is an interesting and difficult problem. High dimensional data, such as images, often contain less information than they do data. For an agent to better reason about…
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MS defense: Problem selection of program tracing tasks in an intelligent tutoring system
Master's Thesis Defense Announcement Problem Selection of Program Tracing Tasks in an Intelligent Tutoring System and Visual Programming Environment David Walser 2:00pm Thursday, 28 April 2011, ITE 325b Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have been shown to be an effective supplementary teaching tool or aid for many domains. Applying ITSs in open-ended domains such as computer…
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Demand up for technology graduates
USA Today has an article on the increased recruiting by technology companies, Tech jobs boom like it's 1999. Potential employees are being lured with good salaries, bonuses, and perks, and some predict that almost 150,000 technology jobs will be added in 2011. "Nearly 150,000 tech jobs are expected to be added this year, says Sophia…
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talk: Working Together Apart, 12:00 4/29
Spring 2011 Information Systems Distinguished Lecture Working Together Apart Dr. Judy Olson Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine 12:00pm Friday, 29 April 2011, ITE Lecture Hall VII Our research group has been investigating the factors that make long distance teamwork work. I will review that work and talk about…
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Maryland Cyber Conference and Challenge (MDC3)
The Maryland Cyber Challenge and Conference site is up and student teams can now register for the competition, with the first qualifying round early in September. It is a chance to demonstrate your ability to work in a team and your cybersecurity and problem solving skills. MDC3 is a joint effort between SAIC, UMBC, DBED,…
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Semantic Analysis of XML Schema Matching for B2B (Dissertation Defense)
PhD Dissertation Defense Announcement A Semantic Analysis of XML Schema Matching for B2B Systems Integration Jaewook Kim 11:00am Thursday, 21 April 2011, ITE 346 One of the most critical steps to integrating heterogeneous e-Business applications using different XML schemas is schema matching, which is known to be costly and error-prone. Many automatic schema matching approaches…
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talk: Cybersecurity Threat is Real (new time: 10am)
The Threat is Real Sherri Ramsay Director, NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center 10:00am Friday 22 April 2011, 229 ITE Sherri Ramsay, the Director of the National Security Agency's National Threat Operations Center, will present an overview of contemporary issues in cybersecurity entitled "The Threat is Real". The NSA Threat Operations Center monitors the operations of the…
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FTP hits middle age
FTP, the File Transfer Protocol, is forty years old today. rfc114, the request for comments that defined the original FTP protocol, was published on April 16, 1971. FTP is one of the oldest Internet standards and remains important today, mostly through its descendants, like SFTP.
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Visionaries in IT Forum May 4: Catherine Kuenzel of Northrop Grumman
Catherine Kuenzel of Northrop Grummon will speak on Your Future in Emerging Technologies as part of the UMBC Visionaries in Information Technology Forum on May 4, 2011. Her talk will cover emerging technologies in health, homeland security, cyber security and renewable energy. Kuenzel is the the Vice President of Federal Mission Programs for the Civil…
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CSEE IT Jobs Summer 2011 and Beyond
The CSEE Department at UMBC has IT job positions available. The positions include a Web Administrator and System Administrator. Full descriptions for each position below. Details include how to apply and what information is expected to be provided. Student Web Administrator position. This position is a hybrid of providing support for the CSEE Web portals,…