Category: Research
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talk: DOE Energy Exascale Earth System Model, 2:30 Tue 10/31, ITE325
CHMPR Distinguished Lecture Series Energy Exascale Earth System Model Dr. Mark Taylor, E3SM Chief Computational Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories 2:30pm Tuesday, 31 October 2017, ITE 325, UMBC Dr. Taylor will present an overview of the DOE Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), including Sandia’s role in numerical algorithms, parallel scalability, and computational performance. E3SM…
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Gymama Slaughter: The Art of Powering Implantable Electronics
The Art of Powering Implantable Electronics UMBC professor Gymama Slaughter give a short talk at the Grit-X event on her recent research on powering implantable devices for medical applications. The number of smart implantable devices is on the rise, especially as we approach the ramping up of the “internet of things.” A key challenge for…
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Nilanjan Banerjee: When What You Wear Understands You
When What You Wear Understands You Professor Nilanjan Banerjee give a short talk at yher Grit-x event on recent research on systems that use intelligent, wearable sensors to provide better human-computer interfaces and for medical applications. How can cutting-edge research on textile sensors and wearable radar sensors help us recognize gestures, monitor sleep fragmentation, and diagnose…
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talk: Results from the SFS Summer Research Study on NetAdmin, 12p Fri 9/8
UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Results from the SFS Summer Research Study at UMBC Enis Golaszewski, UMBC 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 8 September 2017 ITE 228 (or nearby), UMBC In summer 2017, UMBC held a cybersecurity research workshop that featured the UMBC Scholarship For Service (SFS) cohort working with the cooperation of the UMBC Department of Information Technology…
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Prof. Cynthia Matuszek on how robots could help bridge the elder-care gap
Robots can also lend a hand of sorts. Photographee.eu/Shutterstock.com How robots could help bridge the elder-care gap Cynthia Matuszek, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Despite innovations that make it easier for seniors to keep living on their own rather than moving into special facilities, most elderly people eventually need a hand with chores and…
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Prof. Gymama Slaughter to develop bioreactors for life-saving organ transplants
UMBC’s Gymama Slaughter to develop bioreactors that could pause the clock for life-saving organ transplants UMBC’s Gymama Slaughter will develop a bioreactor to extend the viability of lifesaving human organs as they await transplant through a major new grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command. Funding for the project totals nearly…
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PhD defense: Prajit Das, Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices Prajit Kumar Das 8:00-11:00am Tuesday, 22 August 2017, ITE325b, UMBC There are ongoing security and privacy concerns regarding mobile platforms which are being used by a growing number of citizens. Security and privacy models typically used by mobile platforms use one-time permission acquisition mechanisms.…
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PhD Defense: Bryan Wilkinson, Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution Bryan Wilkinson 1:00pm Friday, 18 August 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC Lexical semantics provides many important resources in natural language processing, despite the recent preferences for distributional methods. In this dissertation we investigate an under-represented lexical relationship, that of scalarity. We define sclarity as it…
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UMBC PhD candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy gets Google & Microsoft awards for robotics research
UMBC Ph.D. candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy receives Google and Microsoft awards for robotics research Kavita Krishnaswamy ’07, computer science and mathematics, Ph.D. ’18, computer science, has been named both a 2017 Microsoft Fellow and recipient of the Google Lime Scholarship. These prestigious honors recognize emerging scholars in computing who are dedicated to increasing diversity…
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UMBC’s Prof. Cynthia Matuszek receives NSF award for robot language acquisition
Professor Cynthia Matuszek has received a research award from the National Science Foundation to improve human-robot interactions by enabling them to understand the world from natural language in order to take instructions and learn about their environment naturally and intuitively. The two-year award, Joint Models of Language and Context for Robotic Language Acquisition, will support…