CSEE Archived News
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CE21-Maryland Summit for Computing Education, 17 May 2013
CE21-Maryland will hold a Summit for Computing Education at UMBC on 17 May 2013 for teachers, administrators, legislators, industry leaders and others with an interest in expanding computer science in high school and middle school.
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UMBC’s Anthony Johnson appointed to NAS committee on atomic, molecular and optical sciences
CSEE Professor Anthony Johnson has been appointed by the National Research Council to the National Academies’ Committee on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Sciences. The CAMOS committee’s goals include providing active stewardship of the agenda laid out in the National Academies study Controlling the Quantum World and interacting with and advising U.S. federal agencies on science and…
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UMBC team competes in 2013 Final Four of College Chess this weekend
UMBC’s chess team competes in the Final Four of College Chess this weekend for the title of the best college chess tem in the Americas.
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UMBC to host Computer Science for High School workshop, 4-7 August 2013
Google announced awards for the 2013 Computer Science for High School (CS4HS) program and UMBC was again among the sites selected. The program is an initiative sponsored by Google to promote Computer Science and Computational Thinking in high school and middle school curricula. UMBC Professor Marie desJardins put together successful CS4HS workshops in 2011 and 2012 that…
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Tresys Technology Scholarship for UMBC computing students
Tresys Technology, a provider of technology and engineering services for customers with high-security requirements, announced the "Tresys Technology Scholarship" for UMBC students. The merit-based scholarship is intended to support incoming sophomore or junior computer science majors at UMBC with demonstrated financial need and who have obtained or transferred a grade point average of 3.0 or…
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JOB: PHP developer position with Health Solutions in Owings Mills
Health Solutions has a positio/n for someone to design and develop computer software solutions to support a range of Internet-based applications. Apply the principles and techniques of Object Oriented Programming, MVC design patterns and frameworks, and mathematical analysis to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of scalable and maintainable web based and Intranet-based software solutions. Required…
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Summer Trusted Infrastructure Workshop for graduate students
The Fourth Trusted Infrastructure Workshop (TIW 2013) will be held at Penn State University in University Park, PA from Sunday afternoon, June 2 to Thursday, June 6. TIW 2013 is a free premier educational meeting for graduate students with a focus on computer systems security research and research that builds on trusted computing foundations. TIW…
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CSEE professor Nilanjan Banerjee wins Microsoft SEIF award to fund research
CSEE professor Nilanjan Banerjee has received a Microsoft Software Engineering Innovation (SEIF) Award. The award comes with a $25,000 grant to help fund a research project that uses inventive wearable computing devices to help paraplegics and quadriplegics get around their homes. It’s called “Wearable Multi-Sensor Gesture Recognition in Assistive Devices for Paralysis Patients”. Dr. Banerjee’s…
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Yelena Yesha, Karuna Joshi and Lily Bengfort selected for NSF I-Corps program
The team of Yelena Yesha, Karuna Joshi and Lily Bengfort has been selected for the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program for April. The NSF I-Corps is a set of activities and programs that prepare scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and broadens the impact of select, NSF-funded, basic-research projects. Combining experience…
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talk: Sensor-based assessment of human motion during therapeutic exercise
4/10: Dr. Portia Taylor, a recent PhD from CMU and currently a fellow at the Social Security Administration will talk about her dissertation research on Sensor-based assessment of the quality of human motion during therapeutic exercise at Noon on Wednesday April 10, 2013 in room 459 of the ITE building at UMBC.
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