CSEE Archived News
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Dr.desJardins and Dr. Rheingans in USA Today College on the importance of understanding how computers work
Should an introductory Computer Science course fall within the cadre of General Education Requirements (GEP)—like Math, Science, and English—that are required of all undergrads? According to a USA Today College article, the answer is yes. In the article, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering professors Marie desJardins and Penny Rheingans talk about the importance of having,…
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Google's Blockly visual programming environment
Blockly is new web-based, graphical programming language developed by Google. It's graphical in the style of Scratch in that you create a program not as a linguistic object, but by selecting and composing icons that represent control flow constructs, operations, functions, variables and values. It's Web based in that both the program development and program…
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Our department is a member of the Computing Research Association, which started in 1972 as a organization of US PhD granting CS departments and has grown to more than 220 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing…
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DC and Baltimore have high percentages of college-educated residents
A small study by the Brookings Institution looked at the percentage of people age 25 and over in the 100 largest U.S. metro areas who held at least a bachelor’s degree in 2010, versus in 1970. It reveals a trend for college graduates to concentrate in a set of metropolitan areas that include the…
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On Lisbeth Salander's use of SQL
Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, is seen using SQL in the Hollywood remake. See The Girl With The ANSI Tattoo for an analysis of which DBMS this is and a critique of the queries (Everybody’s a critic!).
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NIST Workshop on Big Data, 13-14 June
NIST will hold a free Big Data Workshop 13-14 June 2012 to explore key national priority topics in support of the White House Big Data Initiative. The workshop is being held in collaboration with the NSF sponsored Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research, a collaboration between UMBC, Georgia Tech and UCSD.
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In the News: Catonsville tech start-up, Mindgrub technologies, takes off
Photo Courtesy Penny Riordan That's Todd Marks up there, standing over a banner for Mindgrub Technologies. In 2002, Marks founded the Catonsville-based start-up that specializes in mobile and web development. In fact, you're probably a fan of their work if you've downloaded UMBC's free iPhone application. According to a Patch.com article, Mindgrub has already outgrown…
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Yasaman Haghpanah (CS, Ph.D. '12) wins Dissertation Fellowship
Congratulations to Computer Science Ph.D. student Yasaman Haghpanah, who will be receiving one of three prestigious Dissertation Fellowships from UMBC’s Graduate School to help complete her Ph.D. dissertation this summer. Originally from Iran, Yasaman began her Ph.D. studies at UMBC in Spring 2009. Her dissertation, entitled “A novel trust and reputation mechanism through behavioral modeling…
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Flame spy malware infiltrating Middle East computers
Russia-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky Labs has described a new cyber attack toolkit dubbed Flame (Worm.Win32.Flame) which they describe as "what might be the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet." Their analysis suggests that Flame is a state-supported effort rather than one created by hacktivists or cybercriminals. "Flame shares many characteristics with notorious cyber weapons Duqu and Stuxnet:…
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UMBC ACM student chapter elects new officers
The UMBC student chapter of the ACM met last week to elect a new slate of officers for the 2012-13 academic year: Varish Mulwad as President, Lisa Mathews as Vice-President, Ravendar Bhojwani as Secretary and Prajit Kumar Das as Treasurer.
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