Category: News
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Phd proposal: Zhang on Brain Network Visualization Techniques
PhD Dissertation Proposal Design and Validation of Brain Network Visualization Techniques: A Unified Approach Guohao Zhang Time and Place: 8:00-10:00am, 22 Jan 22 2015, ITE325 We propose a unified approach to understand why and how visualization works, motivated by scientists’ difficulties in obtaining insights from increasingly complex data that involves multi-modality brain networks from structural…
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Baltimore-area Hadoop Users Group Meetup, 1st meeting 2015-02-19
Don Miner and Brandon Wilson have started a Baltimore-area Meetup group for Hadoop users to discuss Hadoop technology and use cases. The first meeting is 7-9:30pm Thur. Feb. 19 at AOL/Advertising.com, 1020 Hull St, Baltimore.
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Join the 2015 Global Game Jam at UMBC, 23-25 January
UMBC is the Baltimore host site for the 2015 Global Game Jam, which will take place over 48 hours on 23-25 January 2015.
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UMBC Places 3rd at MHacks
Two of UMBC’s regular hackathon participants took 3rd place at MHacks, a competitive 1000 student hackathon at the University of Michigan this past weekend! CSEE students Michael Bishoff (President, HackUMBC) and Sekar Kulandaivel created a haptic feedback suit that makes virtual reality more immersive. To do this, the team created 12 vibrating modules that are…
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Rick Forno speaks @ Schmoocon '15
CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno was a panelist for Schmoocon 2015’s closing plenary session on January 18 in Washington, DC. The session, entitled “Get Off My Lawn: Examining Change through the Eyes of The Old Guard” brought together four longtime security practitioners to discuss in a free-flowing (if not somewhat curmudgeonly) manner the state of Internet…
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talk: Measuring Visual Perceptions of Security, 10am Fri 1/16, UMBC
Professor Adam J. Aviv of the United States Naval Academy will give a talk on ‘Measuring Visual Perceptions of Security’ at 10am on Fri. Jan 16 in the UMBC Information Systems Dept., room 459 in the ITE building.
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PhD defense: Varish Mulwad — Inferring the Semantics of Tables
Dissertation Defense TABEL — A Domain Independent and Extensible Framework for Inferring the Semantics of Tables Varish Vyankatesh Mulwad 8:00am Thursday, 8 January 2015, ITE325b Tables are an integral part of documents, reports and Web pages in many scientific and technical domains, compactly encoding important information that can be difficult to express in text. Table-like structures…
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UMBC 3rd in Pan-Am Chess Championship, advances to Final-Four
UMBC placed third in the the 2014 Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship and advances to the Prsdident’s Cup — Final Four of College Chess — which will be held in April.
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UMBC chess team competes in Pan-Am Intercollegiate Chess Championship
UMBC is competing in the 2014 Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Championship being held this week in South Padre Island, Texas.
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MS defense: Impaired Driving Detection Using Multiple Textile & Inertial Sensors
Tsu An Chen will defend his MS Thesis, distratto: Real-time Impaired Driving Detection Using Multiple Textile and Inertial Sensors, at 1:00pm on 23 December 2014 in room 341 of the ITE building at UMBC.