Category: News
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Prof. Marie desJardins named by Forbes as one of 21 women who are advancing AI research
An article on Forbes’ site this week cites UMBC’s Professor Marie desJardins as one of 21 women who are advancing A.I. research. The article notes that artificial intelligence is “eating the world, transforming virtually every industry and function” and highlights women who are AI educators, researchers and business leaders who are driving the development and…
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Prof. Ting Zhu receives NSF CAREER award to develop Internet of Things technology
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Ting Zhu, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, its prestigious CAREER Award for his work to significantly improve the existing sensing capabilities of common technologies, such as cell phones. The five-year grant will total nearly $500,000. “We congratulate Dr. Zhu on his NSF CAREER Award,…
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CyberCorps SFS students to meet at UMBC, Friday May 26
CyberCorps SFS Spring Meeting at UMBC 9am-1pm, Friday, 26 May 26 2017, ITE 456, UMBC open to the public Six CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) students from Montgomery College and Prince George’s Community College will present their results solving IT security problems for their county governments. In spring 2017, these students worked collaboratively in a…
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Designing & developing effective mobile applications demos, 11:30-2:30 May 11, UMBC
Image by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC: Michael Bishoff explains the PhotoDrop app to visitors at the 2016 demo presentation of the projects from the interdisciplinary course “Designing and Developing Effective Mobile Applications.” UMBC students will demonstrate collaborative mobile computing projects developed in integrated classes offered by Computer Science and Fine Arts. The demonstrations…
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Virtual Reality Design for Science student projects, 12-1:30 Wed. 5/10, ITE 201b
Everyone is invited to see presentations and demonstrations of six class projects done by the 17 students in CMSC 491/691, Virtual Reality Design for Science, taught by CSEE Professor Jian Chen this spring. The demonstrations and presentations will take place 12:00-1:30pm Wednesday, 10 May 2017 in the π² Immersive Hybrid Reality Lab located in room 201b in the…
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CS Ed Club’s Meet Your Prof. Series: Marie desJardins, Noon Mon May 8, ITE227
This semester, the CS Education Club has started a mini lecture series for students to interact with faculty outside of the classroom. They will have Dr. Marie desJardins as their next speaker. She will give an informal presentation followed by a discussion at 12:00 Noon on Monday May 8 in ITE 227. Light snacks and…
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talk: Big Microbiome Data, 10am Tue May 2, UMBC
Information Systems Eminent Scholar Talk Big Microbiome Data Xiaohua Hu, Drexel University 10:00am Tuesday, 2 May 2017, ITE 459, UMBC We know little about the microbial world. Microbiome sequencing (i.e., metagenome, 16s rRNA) extracts DNA directly from a microbial environment without culturing any species. Recently, huge amount of data are generated from many micorbiome projects…
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talk: Practical Introduction to Penetration Testing , 12pm 4/28, ITE227, UMBC
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents A Practical Introduction to Penetration Testing Dr. Arno Wacker University of Kassel, Germany and UMBC 2017 12:00noon Friday, 28 April 2017, ITE 227, UMBC While many students learn the theoretical concepts of cybersecurity and cryptology at universities, their exposure to real life systems and the application of learned theoretical…
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talk: Human-Like Strategies for Language-Endowed Intelligent Agents, 11am Fri 4/48, UMBC
The UMBC Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR) is pleased to present as part of our distinguished lecture series Human-Like Strategies for Language-Endowed Intelligent Agents Dr. Sergei Nirenburg Professor of Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 11:00am Friday, 28 April 2017, ITE 325b Artificial intelligent agents functioning in human-agent teams must correctly interpret perceptual…
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talk: Resynchronization of circadian neurons, 1pm Fri 4/21
UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Resynchronization of circadian neurons and the east-west asymmetry of jet-lag recovery Zhixin Lu University of Maryland, College Park 1-2pm Friday, 21 April 2017, ITE 231 Cells in the brain’s Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) are known to regulate circadian rhythms in mammals. We model synchronization of SCN cells using the forced Kuramoto model,…