Category: Research
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talk: Analysis of Brain Network Connectivity in fMRI Data using Spatial Dependence
EE Graduate Seminar Analysis of Brain Network Connectivity in fMRI Data using Spatial Dependence Sai Ma EE PhD Candidate, CSEE Dept, UMBC 11:30-12:45 Friday 9 September 2011, ITE 231 Due to low invasiveness and high spatial resolution, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become popular in neuroimaging field to determine where activity occurs in brain…
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Citizen Science on the Social and Semantic Web, PhD proposal, Joel Sachs
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Citizen Science on the Social and Semantic Web Joel Sachs 9:00-11:00am Friday 9 September 2011 Room 325b, ITE Building, UMBC A question faced by semantic web developers is how much explicit semantics to include in their ontologies. A typical answer is that it depends on the use case, since different use cases…
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Prof. desJardins receives NSF grant to study teaching computers to follow verbal instructions
Professor Marie desJardins receied a three year grant from NSF's Robust Intelligence program to develop techniques that will permit a computer or robot to learn from examples to carry out multipart tasks specified in natural language on behalf of a user. The project, Teaching Computers to Follow Verbal Instructions, is part of a collaborative effort…
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President Freeman Hrabowski on UMBC's Cybersecurity Strategy
UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski was recently interviewed by The Daily Record on UMBC's educational and research programs in cybersecurity and their importance to the region and nation. "We anticipate significant growth in this area over the next five years as the nation continues to stand up our cybersecurity resources. In addition, cybersecurity has implications for…
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Google describes challenges in detecting Web-based malware
A new Google technical report, Trends in Circumventing Web-Malware Detection documents that it has become difficult to identify malicious Web sites as antivirus software is becoming less effective against them. The researchers analyzed four years' worth of data from 160 million Web pages using its Safe Browsing service, which warns users when they attempt to…
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Talk: Opportunities in Computational Materials Science
Opportunities in Computational Materials Science Juana Moreno and Randall Hall Center for Computation and Technology Louisiana State University 1:00pm Friday 9 September 2011, ITE 227 The White House Materials Genome Initiative intends to double the speed with which we discover, develop, and manufacture new materials. In order for this initiative to be successful an unprecedented…
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Final MDC3 cyber challenge team registration session 9/7
The Maryland Cyber Challenge and Conference (MDC3) will provide an opportunity for students and professionals to network in a fun environment while participating in exciting games and learning about computer safety and cybersecurity skills. MDC3 teams of up to six players will compete in one of three categories: high school, college and university, and industry…
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UIST Student Innovation Contest
The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology sponsors a Student Innovation Contest (SIC) with the goal of innovating new interactions on state-of-the-art hardware. They give you the latter, and you show them what you can do. This year they will be working with the new Microsoft TouchMouse. In addition to supplying you the…
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Talk: Smart Grid Demand Response, 4pm Wed 8/17
Demand Response; What is it and What are the Business Opportunities? Dr. Bjorn Frogner 4:00pm Wednesday, 17 August 2011 Maryland Clean Energy Technology Incubator UMBC South Campus Bjorn will discuss the aspect of the Smart Grid called Demand Response (DR). DR is where the action is in the Smart Grid. Implementation of DR is made…
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Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning
If your research involved language processing and/or machine learning you should consider submitting a poster abstract to the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning. This is a free, one-day event bringing together faculty, researchers and students from universities in the Mid-Atlantic area working in human language technology and/or machine learning. It is an…