Category: News
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Kirit Chatterjee (CE MS '12) helps build innovative temperature sensor for neonatal care
For his Master’s thesis, Computer Engineering student Kirit Chatterjee worked with scientists from UMBC’s Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) on an innovation temperature sensor for premature babies.
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Congratulations to our CSEE Ph.D. December graduates
Congratulations to our December Ph.D. graduates! Read on to hear about their Ph.D. dissertation research and their plans for the future. Dr. Karuna Joshi Computer Science Semantically Rich, Policy Based Framework to Automate Lifecycle of Cloud Based Services Mentors: Yelena Yesha and Tim Finin Thesis Topic: Dr. Joshi developed a new framework to automate…
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JOB: undergraduate internships at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, MD (20 minutes south of UMBC), offers a wide array of valuable, paid internships for Undergraduates in the summer. Please see the attached flyers. IMPORTANT NOTE: while the end date for applications is in March, Goddard is doing a FIRST CUT by Jan 30, so the good jobs…
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UMBC in the Pan-Am Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship
This week the UMBC chess program will field a team in the 2012 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship which will take place December 27-30 in Princeton, NJ. The UMBC team is shown here along with GM Sam Palatnik (Chess Program Associate Director), Alan Sherman (Chess Program Director and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering)…
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Heidelberg Laureate Forum: laureates meet the next generation
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is an extraordinary opportunity for a group of students and young researchers to interact with some of the greatest minds of Mathematics and Computer Science for a week of scientific exchange and inspiration. It will bring together winners of the Abel Prize, the ACM Turing Award, and the Fields Medal with…
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Public tutorials on high performance computing research and technologies
The Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research is a collaborative research center sponsored by the National Science Foundation with two university partners (UMBC and University of California San Diego), six government, and seven industry members. The Center's research is focused on addressing productivity, performance, and scalability issues in meeting the insatiable computational demands of…
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CSEE Alumni Donald Miner and Adam Shook publish book on MapReduce
UMBC Computer Science Alumni Donald Miner (BS ’06, PhD ’10) (left) and Adam Shook (BS ’09, MS expected ’13) (right) have written a book on the popular MapReduce paradigm that has revolutionized the way collections of computers are used to process large amounts of data in parallel. Their book, MapReduce Design Patterns Building Effective Algorithms…
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PhD defense: Supporting Citizen Science and Biodiversity Informatics on the Semantic Web
10am Fri 12/14: Joel Sachs will defend his dissertation on “Supporting Citizen Science and Biodiversity Informatics on the Semantic Web” at 10:00am on Friday, December 14, 2012 in room 325b in the ITE building at UMBC.
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CSEE professor Kargupta and co-authors win IEEE 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award
On December 12, CSEE professor Hillol Kargupta will receive the 10-year Highest-Impact Paper Award from the IEEE International Data Mining Conference (ICDM) in Brussels, Belgium. The winning paper—“On the Privacy Preserving Properties of Random Data Perturbation Techniques”—discusses privacy-preserving data mining and it also received the 2003 ICDM Best Paper Award. It is co-authored by former…
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Global Game Jam returns to UMBC, Register Now!
UMBC will once again host the Global Game Jam. The weekend-long game development event will be held this year from January 25-27. UMBC is one of hundreds of host sites around the world. Other local sites include College Park, the Universities at Shady Grove, and George Mason. “I expect an exciting mix of students, friends,…