Category: News
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UMBC LUG Installfest, Fri Feb 18, UMBC Commons
The UMBC Linux Users’ Group (LUG) will hold it's Spring Installfest on Friday February 18th from 10:30am to 5:00pm on the Commons Main Street. If you've ever wanted to try Linux but didn't know where to start, bring your computer and LUG members can help you install Linus and ensure that your hardware, including wireless,…
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Menyuk: Solitons, Self-Induced Transparency, and Modelocking in Quantum Cascade Lasers
Solitons, Self-Induced Transparency, and Modelocking in Quantum Cascade Lasers Professor Curtis Menyuk University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1:00-2:15pm Friday, 18 March 2011, ITE 227, UMBC Standard semiconductor lasers operate in a limited wavelength range, below about 4 microns. Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) that operate in the mid-IR and far-IR have important applications to medicine, environmental…
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Nirenburg: Cognitive Architecture for Simulating Bodies and Minds, 2/18
Sergei Nirenburg presents ‘A Cognitive Architecture for Simulating Bodies and Minds’, 1pm fri 18 Feb, ITE227, UMBC
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Computer Science lecturer position available
The UMBC CSEE Department invites applications for a non-tenure track, full-time lecturer position to teach a variety of undergraduate computer science courses. Both a demonstrated ability to teach such courses and a strong interest in teaching undergraduates are essential. Applicants must have, or be about to receive, an M.S. or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science…
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CWIT Bits and Bytes
The UMBC Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT) will hold the second Bits & Bytes event on February 20-21, 2011 for academically talented young women who are juniors in high school and excel in math and science. This year's event is sponsored by Northrop Grumman and is intended to engage local high school girls…
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Professor Kargupta named as an IEEE Fellow
CSEE Professor Hillol Kargupta was named a IEEE Fellow for his contributions to distributed data mining. Dr. Kargupta's research focuses on distributed data mining that explores technology for data analysis in distributed environments where data cannot be centralized because of organizational, performance or privacy reasons. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of…
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Volunteer for the MD FIRST Lego League championship
UMBC will host the 2011 FIRST Lego League Maryland State Championship on Saturday February 26 in the UMBC Retriever Activities Center. The UMBC organizers, led by UMBC Mechanical Engineering Professor Anne Spence, need volunteers from the UMBC community to help on the tournament day as well as to help set up in on Friday. If…
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Luebke: GPU Computing: Past, Present and Future, 1pm Fri Feb 4, ITE227
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County GPU Computing: Past, Present, and Future Dr. David Luebke Director of Research, NVIDIA Corporation 1:00-2:15pm Friday, 4 February 2011, ITE 227 Modern GPUs have outgrown their graphics heritage in many ways to emerge as the world's most successful parallel computing architecture. The GPUs that consumers…
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CSEE grad student documentary film: LEVÉ HAITI
Huguens Jean, '03, '11, Ph.D., electrical engineering, and Clifford Muse '11, information systems, returned to Haiti in March 2010, after the devastating January earthquake, to fulfill their grandfather's last request of them. As he was dying of cancer, he asked that at his funeral they celebrate his life and "find the joy." "I had no…
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Minefleet datamining system honored at ICDM-2010
Work by Professor Hillol Kargupta and his students and colleagues was recognize as one of the top ten data mining case studies at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. The case study submission cited was described in Hillol Kargupta, Kakali Sarkar, Michael Gilligan, Parag Namjoshi, Sai Subhash Paruchuru, Thiraphat Pongsudhiraks, and Robert Gilligan,…