Category: News

  • Banerjee, Lachut receive best paper nomination for work with green homes

    “Minimizing Intrusiveness in Home Energy Measurement”, a paper written by CSEE Assisant Professor Nilanjan Banerjee, Computer Science graduate student David Lachut, and their colleagues at the University of San Francisco, was nominated for the best paper award at ACM's BuildSys workshop. The paper outlines the design of a system that will analyze and manage energy…

  • PhD Defense: Semantically Rich, Policy Based Framework to Automate Lifecycle of Cloud Based Services

    Ph.D. Thesis Defense Announcement Semantically Rich, Policy Based Framework to Automate Lifecycle of Cloud Based Services Karuna P. Joshi 10:00am 19 November 2012, ITE 325B   Managing virtualized services efficiently over the cloud is an open challenge.  Traditional models of software development are very time consuming and labor intensive for the cloud computing domain, where…

  • Talk: An architecture for enterprise information interoperability, 11am Nov 9

    11am 11/9: Dr. David Wood will talk on “Active PURLs: An architecture for enterprise information interoperability” at 11:00am on Friday, November 9, 2012 in room 325b of the Information Technology and Engineering building.

  • Cybersecurity drop-in session, 11/7

    Tomorrow, Dr. Rick Forno will be hosting a drop-in session to discuss UMBC's Graduate Cybersecurity Program. It will be held Wednesday, November 7 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm in ACIV-B WING Room 464. UMBC's Drop In sessions are a great way to meet Graduate Program Directors and chat about their programs, educational opportunities, and your interests…

  • Meet the Students: Sarah Khalife (CE '14)

    Originally from Cyprus, Sarah Khalife is a Computer Engineering major and a CWIT Affiliate.     About Sarah When did you become interested in Computer Engineering? I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to be. At first, Computer Engineering sounded interesting– I like computers and I like math, why not Computer Engineering? Since then, I've…

  • How undergraduate research spelled success for alumnus Gevorg Grigoryan

    Research Proactive A Computational Biologist and Dartmouth professor, Alumnus Gevorg Grigoryan says his undergraduate research at UMBC was crucial to his success. Kids typically see college as a chance to get away from their parents. That wasn’t the case with alumnus Gevorg Grigoryan (B.S. CS, BioChem ’02), who did research with his dad in UMBC’s…

  • Meet the Students: Rebecca Chhay (CS '14)

    Originally from Silver Spring, MD, Rebecca is a Computer Science major and an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the UMBC MAPLE (Multi-Agent Planning and Learning) Lab.   About Rebecca When did you become interested in Computer Science? High School. What area of Computer Science interests you the most? (Truth be told) Job Security; Feeling like a…

  • Making the Abstract Approachable: Teaching innovation in UMBC's CSEE Department

    Making the Abstract Approachable How UMBC's Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department is using innovative teaching techniques to engage and inspire undergraduates. Gone are the days of stuffy lectures and drowsy students. At least, this is true of UMBC’s Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, where hands-on labs, industry simulations, new teaching methods, honors courses,…

  • talk: Modeling the dynamics of pulsed optical fiber lasers that rely on nonlinear polarization rotation

    CSEE Colloquium Modeling the dynamics of pulsed optical fiber lasers that rely on nonlinear polarization rotation Brian Marks Research Scientist UMBC Computational Photonics Laboratory 1 pm Friday, 2 November 2012, ITE 227, UMBC   Ultrashort pulse lasers are important tools in time and frequency metrology, atomic spectroscopy, and medical applications. Passively modelocked fiber lasers are…

  • talk: Emerging Challenges in High Performance Computing

    CSEE Colloquium Emerging Challenges in High Performance Computing: Resilience and the Science of Embracing Failure John. T. Daly Advanced Computing Systems Program at the Department of Defense / Center for Exceptional Computing 1:00 p.m. Friday, 9 November 2012, ITE 227, UMBC   Resilience is about keeping the application workload running to a correct solution in…