CSEE Archived News
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New CSEE graduate student orientation, 9am Thr 8/25
The CSEE department will hold an orientation session for new graduate students in its Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering programs at 9:00am Thursday August 25 in Lecture Hall 8 (ITE 102). Here is the schedule. 09:00-09:30am Registration 09:30-09:45am Welcome, CSEE Department Chair Dr. Gary Carter 09:45-10:15am Success Strategies, Dr. Tim Finin 10:15-10:45am CSEE…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Chintan Patel
Dr. Chintan Patel, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, specializes in VLSI design and test and has been working on projects dealing with power supply modeling, noise estimation, current measurements circuits and hardware security. “Today’s complex devices operating at very low power supply voltages are very susceptible to even minor variations in the…
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Final MDC3 cyber challenge team registration session 9/7
The Maryland Cyber Challenge and Conference (MDC3) will provide an opportunity for students and professionals to network in a fun environment while participating in exciting games and learning about computer safety and cybersecurity skills. MDC3 teams of up to six players will compete in one of three categories: high school, college and university, and industry…
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George Dyson on the birth of the computer
In his 2003 TED talk, George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer — from its 17th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers.
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A Google a Day puzzles improve Web searching skills
The three Rs (Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic) were the education basics of generations past, but maybe now we should add a fourth, information Retrieval. We all turn to Web search engines like Bing and Google whenever we need to know something and the technology has revolutionized how we access and even think about information. But…
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AAAI grants Dr. desJardins Senior Member status
“I was delighted and honored to be selected as one of the Senior Members who were named in the first year of the Senior Member Program,” says Dr. Marie desJardins, who was recently granted Senior Member Status by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Senior Members, of which there are a maximum…
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Microsoft graduate fellowship programs
Microsoft has two generous graduate fellowship programs that are open to full-time students in all three of the core CSEE graduate programs: Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering. These will provide support starting with the 2012-13 academic year and have application deadlines of October 6, 2011. The nominations come from the University, must be…
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AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarships
The Associated Press and Google announced a scholarship program to foster digital and new media skills in student journalists. The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will provide $20,000 to six undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at "the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media during the 2012-2013 academic…
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UIST Student Innovation Contest
The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology sponsors a Student Innovation Contest (SIC) with the goal of innovating new interactions on state-of-the-art hardware. They give you the latter, and you show them what you can do. This year they will be working with the new Microsoft TouchMouse. In addition to supplying you the…
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Talk: Smart Grid Demand Response, 4pm Wed 8/17
Demand Response; What is it and What are the Business Opportunities? Dr. Bjorn Frogner 4:00pm Wednesday, 17 August 2011 Maryland Clean Energy Technology Incubator UMBC South Campus Bjorn will discuss the aspect of the Smart Grid called Demand Response (DR). DR is where the action is in the Smart Grid. Implementation of DR is made…
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