CSEE Archived News
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Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning
If your research involved language processing and/or machine learning you should consider submitting a poster abstract to the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning. This is a free, one-day event bringing together faculty, researchers and students from universities in the Mid-Atlantic area working in human language technology and/or machine learning. It is an…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Sergei Nirenburg
Dr. Sergei Nirenburg, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, is a member of the truly smart agents research group (TSA), where he works on building artificial intelligent agents capable of human behavior. Since 2006, Dr. Nireburg has been working on the Maryland Virtual Patient (MVP) Project, a multi-level heterogeneous agent-oriented environment that simulates a…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Gymama Slaughter
Dr. Gymama Slaughter, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, runs UMBC's Bioelectronics Laboratory (BEL@UMBC), which combines different projects in the areas of electronics, biology, medicine and chemistry. She is currently working on designing a closed-loop system that monitors blood glucose levels and administers insulin to diabetic patients. Dr. Slaughter says that what she…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Tim Finin
Dr. Tim Finin, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, specializes in artificial intelligence and has been working on developing smart phones that can guage their user's "context." “What I have always found interesting since I was an Undergraduate was the idea that we could make machines as smart as people,” explains Dr. Finin, whose…
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Happy birthday World Wide Web
Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary about the new World Wide Web project on the public alt.hypertext newsgroup. A copy of the first Web page mentioned in his post is hosted by the W3C. The Web is arguably the most significant computing technology that has been developed in the forty years,…
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Shawn Lupoli joins CSEE faculty
The Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering would like to welcome new lecturer, Shawn Lupoli, to the department. Mr. Lupoli will be teaching CMSC 201 (Introduction to Computer Science) and CMSC 104 (Problem Solving and Computer Programming) at UMBC this Fall. Shawn Lupoli’s interest in robotics sparked when he was pursing an undergraduate degree…
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Happy wi-fi day
Today is traditional day we celebrate and honor wi-fi in the US: 8.02.11. In other parts of the world it is celebrated on February eighth.
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Fall 2011 courses not to miss
ENEE 788: Advanced Computational Methods Professor: Drs. Curtis Menyuk and Andrew Docherty Semester: Fall 2011 Time: MW 5:30-6:45 Credits: 3 This course teaches the computational methods that every scientist and engineer working in photonics should know in order to be able to understand the scientific literature. The focus will be on applications to light wave…
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MS defense: Fast Fullchip Transient Response Estimation Technique
MS thesis defense A Fast Fullchip Transient Response Estimation Technique Sushmita K. Rao 11:00am Monday, 25 July 2011, ITE 346 Circuit Simulation has long been a dependable technique for design engineers for functional testing before a circuit is taken to silicon. But as we move into very deep sub-micron technologies, chips are becoming more complex…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Penny Rheingans
Dr. Penny Rheingans, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, co-directs UMBC's VAnGOGH lab, where she uses her knowledge in data visualization to solve problems in a variety of application areas. “I think it’s a really cool area because it allows me to synthesize things from a number of areas,” says Rheingans of the field,…
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