CSEE Archived News
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Course Highlights: CMSC 677
CMPE 677: Agent Architectures and Multi-Agent Systems Professor: Dr. Sergei Nirenburg, Professor Semester: Fall 2011 Time: MW 5:30-6:45 Credits: 3 Room: ITE 277 This course teaches students fundamental techniques for developing intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, including: cognitive, logic-based, reactive, and belief-desire-intention architectures; inter-agent communication languages and protocols; distributed problem-solving, planning and constraint…
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Computer science major tops for jobs
Software Development Times reports that Computer Science is the top major for job offers. “Computer science graduates now get more offers of employment than any other major. This is the first time since 2008 that computer science has topped the list: previously, accounting majors had the highest offer rate. In 2011, 56.2% of computer science…
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MS defense: Mitigating Coverage Loss in Wireless Sensor Networks
MS Thesis Defense Distributed Approach for Mitigating Coverage Loss in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor networks Kavin Rathinam Kasinathan 10:00am 15 July 2011, ITE 325b In a heterogeneous wireless sensor network, nodes with different sensing capabilities are dispersed throughout an area of interest. Nodes with similar capabilities are not necessarily collocated. When a node fails, the area…
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Is a smartphone your Internet portal?
Today’s Washington Post article, As smartphones proliferate, some users are cutting the computer cord, describes how smartphones are enabling a “always-on, Internet-on-the-go society”. “A third of all American adults own a smartphone and for many minority and low income users, those mobile devices have replaced computers for Internet access. The findings released Monday by the…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Yelena Yesha
Dr. Yelena Yesha is the Director of the Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA) and the site director of the Multicore Computational Center (MC2), and has been doing exciting research with cloud computing through the centers. To read more about Dr. Yesha’s research pursuits, see her full research profile.
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Curtis Menyuk
Dr. Curtis Menyuk, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, specializes in the theory and simulation of opitcal and photonic systems. A member of UMBC's Computational Photonics Laboratory, he is currently interested in short-pulse lasers and time and frequency transfer networks. "One of the central themes in my career has been an interest in solitons,”…
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Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Tülay Adali
Dr. Tülay Adali, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, specializes in statistical signal processing.Since 1992, Dr. Adali has been the director of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Lab (MLSP-Lab) at UMBC. Currently, she has been working on diagnosing schizophrenia by analyzing functional MRI and other medical imaging data. To read more about…
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Maryland's cybersecurity portfolio
The Washington Post had a recent story on how Maryland is positioning itself to take advantage of increased interest in cybersecurity, Maryland sees its moment in cybersecurity. The article discusses the cybersecurity incubator in UMBC’s research Park. “The state has had no trouble attracting well-known contractors  many of whom are based in Northern Virginia.…
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Six hottest IT jobs
CIO magazine has an article that identifies what they think are the the six hottest new IT jobs. They used an admittedly unscientific method of reviewing listing on IT job sites and talking to IT executives to find the types of jobs with good growth potential and are resistant to outsourcing and economic downturns. “IT…
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Clinical-Genomic Analysis for Disease Prediction, MS defense
MS Thesis Defense Clinical-Genomic Analysis for Disease Prediction Darshana Dalvi 10:00am 6 July 2011, ITE 346 Recent advances in genomic research have generated vast amounts of information that can help identify individuals who differ in their susceptibility to a particular disease or response to a specific treatment. This information may offer solutions for the treatment…
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