Category: Students

  • Linux Users Group to meet 12-1 Mondays in ITE234

    The UMBC Linux Users Group (LUG) will meet during the spring semester on Mondays starting on February 4 from Noon to 1:00pm in ITE 234. If you are interested in becoming a member, please come to a few meetings and check it out. The UMBC LUG was established in 1997 as an organization of and…

  • Mid-Maryland Data Science Meetup

    One the hottest topics in computing today is data science — how we can exploit the massive amounts of data now available to discover knowledge and solve problems. Data science touches on many computing areas (e.g., databases, machine learning, high performance computing, visualization, cloud computing, text analysis and graph analytics) and has many applications. If…

  • Apply today for CRA-W Graduate Cohort Workshop

    It’s not too late to apply for the 2013 CRA-W Graduate Cohort Workshop scheduled for April 5-6, 2013 in Boston, MA. This event brings together women graduate students in their first three years of graduate school for a series of presentations and panels with successful senior women researchers from academic, industrial, and government laboratories about…

  • 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…

  • JOB: Summer Internships at NIST in MD and Colorado

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is looking for students for its paid Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF.) SURF offers students in STEM fields PAID summer research under the guidance of one NIST's scientists and engineers. The 11-week program at NIST's Gaithersburg, MD campus is May 23 through August 9. There is also…

  • CS student Blossom Metevier panelist at CSEdWeek discussion, Fueling the Future

    UMBC Sophomore Blossom Metevier (Computer Science ’15) will be a panelist at the CSEdWeek panel discussion: Fueling the Future: Celebrating Computer Science Education Week and Computer Science in K-12 Classrooms and Policy. The event will give congressional staff and STEM education stakeholders and overview of the state and prospects of K-12 computer science education.

  • ACM talk: Cloud based Active Archiving Solution for Databases, 2:30pm Fri 11/30

    In the second talk of the UMBC ACM Student Chapter’s Tech Talk Series, ACM Distinguished Speaker Dr. Mukesh Mohania will visit UMBC and talk about “Cloud based Active Archiving Solution for Databases” at 2:30pm on Friday, 30 November in Lecture Hall 8 at UMBC.

  • ACM Student Chapter hosts CSEE welcome back picnic

    The UMBC ACM Student Chapter invites CSEE students, staff and faculty to the third annual Welcome Back Picnic. Join us this coming Wednesday, 10 October 2012, between 11:30 am and 1:30pm in the Atrium of the Engineering Building for lunch and to meet new and returning students. The picnic is sponsored by the CSEE Department…

  • CS Ph.D. student, Adrian Rosebrock, talks about website/iPhone app, Chic Engine

    Fashion Forward Chic Engine, a website and iPhone app created by Computer Science Ph.D. student  Adrian Rosebrock helps you find clothes you see on friends, strangers, or online.  Just snap a photo, and let Chic Engine do the rest. CSEE: Tell us about your “ah-ha” moment with Chic Engine. What inspired you to start it?…

  • Meet the inaugural batch of UMBC's NSF Scholarship for Service scholars

    Meet UMBC’s inaugural batch of NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) CyberCorps program scholars. These four B.S., M.P.S. and Ph.D. students  will be able to hone their interests in Information Assurance and Cybersecurity through generous full-ride scholarships and opportunities to intern at government organizations.  Oliver Kubik Major: B.S. Computer Science '14 Hometown: New Windsor, MD Oliver…