CSEE Archived News
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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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CSEE Professor, Dr. Anupam Joshi, named Oros Family Professor of Technology
Dr. Joshi has been a faculty member of UMBC’s Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department since 1998. His research focuses on wireless and mobile computing, trust, security, privacy issues in distributed systems, and analytics of social media. He is a core member of UMBC's Ebiquity research group. Congratulations to Dr. Anupam Joshi, who was recently…
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MS defense: Pilz on Approximation of Nonintegral Frequency Moments, 11/30
Masters Thesis Defense Approximation of Nonintegral Frequency Moments Brian Pilz 10:00am 30 November 2011, ITE325b Let a data stream have length m over an alphabet of n letters, with letter i occurring m_i times for i = 1,…,n. For any k, define the frequency moments F_k as F_k = sum_{i=1}^n m_i^k. Alon, Matias, and Szegedy…
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talk: Rutledge on multichannel amplitude compression for speech processing, 11/18
EE Graduate Seminar Time-Varying Amplitude Compression Processing to Preserve and Enhance Spectral Contrast in Speech Signals Dr. Janet C. Rutledge Dean, UMBC Graduate School Vice-Provost for Graduate Education Affiliate Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering 11:30-12:45 Friday, 18 November 2011, ITE 231 Multichannel amplitude compression processing is used to reduce the level variations of speech to fit…
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ENES Students Take Part in AROW Competition at UMBC
This Saturday, November 19, students enrolled in Introduction to Engineering Science (ENES 101) will put robotic vessels to the test during UMBC's first AROW competition. AROW–Academy Robotics on the Water–was developed by Captain Jonathan Russell, Lt. Cmdr. Brian Maggi and Stephen Grenier of the US Coast Guard Academy as an introductory engineering design experience. The…
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Ph.D. Defense: Justin Martineau on Sentiment Analysis, 1:30pm Fri 11/18
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Identifying and Isolating Text Classification Signals from Domain and Genre Noise for Sentiment Analysis Justin Martineau 1:30-4:00 Friday, 18 November 2011, ITE 325b, UMBC Sentiment analysis is the automatic detection and measurement of sentiment in text segments by machines. This thesis provides methods to identify, characterize, and isolate the sentiment bearing terms…
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Dr. Yesha named IBM CAS Faculty Fellow of the Year
Congratulations to Dr. Yelena Yesha, professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, for receiving this year's IBM CAS Faculty Fellow of the Year award. The award is a recognition of Dr. Yesha's positive impact on the goals and reputation of IBM, as well as her influence on IBM's Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) as an…
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Talk: Stochastic Graph Grammars, Oates, 11/11/11
EE Graduate Seminar Stochastic Graph Grammars Prof. Tim Oates Associate Professor of Computer Science Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC 11:30am Friday November 11, ITE 231, UMBC Many important domains are naturally described relationally, often using graphs in which nodes correspond to entities and edges to relations. Stochastic graph grammars compactly represent probability distributions over…
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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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UMBC Alumnus helps develop Apple's latest technology
If you were among the millions who bought the new iPhone 4S, then you can thank Dr. Harry Chen, the UMBC alumnus who helped develop the phone’s most notable new feature: Siri. For those not among the millions, here’s a bit of background: Siri is a virtual assistant that responds to voice commands. “She” can…
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