Category: Undergraduate
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NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) offers paid Summer internships through their SURF program with opportunities at NIST facilities in Gaithersburg and Boulder. Many of the participating research projects are looking for students majoring in Computer Science or Computer Engineering. The eleven week program starts in the last week of May and provides…
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Summer research in cybersecurity and trustworthy systems
The Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) will sponsor 20 undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience located at TRUST partner campuses: UC Berkeley, Cornell University, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University. These students will work with graduate student and faculty mentors throughout the summer performing research…
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Win $50K in the DARPA Shredder Challenge
DARPA has announce another research-relevant competition: the $50,000 Shredder Challenge which invites teams to try to reconstruct virtual shredded documents. "Today’s troops often confiscate the remnants of destroyed documents in war zones, but reconstructing them is a daunting task. DARPA’s Shredder Challenge calls upon computer scientists, puzzle enthusiasts and anyone else who likes solving complex…
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Build a better ant in the Google AI Challenge
Google is sponsoring another AI Challenge Competition run by an independent group of volunteers that grew out of the Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo. The competition opens today and invites submissions of programs designed to control ants a simulated colony in competition with other colonies. Ants is a multi-player strategy game…
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The Women Who Made Google Plus
This year, October 7 has been designated as Ada Lovelace Day, a day to honor Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. She is widely regarded as the first computer programmer for her work with Charles Babbage who developed an early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. ReadWriteWeb commemorated the day with a story on the…
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Contest to forecast wind power from a wind farm
If you are interested in machne learning you might check out the American Meteorological Society Wind Power Prediction Contest. It is sponsored by the AMS Committee on AI Applications to Environmental Science, Energy, and Probability and Statistics. The goal is to compare various statistical learning techniques to predict wind power production. This contest considers a wind…
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Do you know the right programming languages?
Do you know the right programming languages? Depending on your objective, the most important one to know might be Java, Python, PhP, C, or even Haskell. IEEE Spectrum has a short article on The Top 10 Programming Languages that is based on data from David Welton's Programming Languages Popularity site which "attempts to collect a…
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Free Linux installation help at the 2011 UMBC Linux Insallfest
Got Linux? If you've ever wanted to try Linux but didn't know where to start, bring your computer to the Linux Installfest this Friday. The UMBC Linux Users Group will hold a Linux Install Fest from 10:30am to 4:30pm on Friday 7 October on Main Street in the Commons. Experts from the Linux Users Group will…
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Interdisciplinary Engineering Panel Night, 7pm 10/6
The UMBC ACM Student Chapter is co-hosting Interdisciplinary Engineering Panel Night at 7:00pm on Thursday 6 October 201 in the Commons Skylight Lounge. This free event is open to both undergraduate and graduate students in all engineering disciplines. Students have a chance to hear the perspective of professionals from industry, socializing and expanding their network.…
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Undergraduate Researcher Profile: Alexander Morrow
Alexander Morrow is a Sophomore majoring in Computer Science. His research explores predictive model uncertainty. To learn more about Alexander's research, read his research profile.