CSEE Archived News
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Marie desJardins Collaborates with Howard County Parents and Teachers for HowGirlsCode
CSEE’s Marie desJardins recently collaborated with a group of Howard County parents and teachers to create HowGirlsCode, an educational program that “educates and inspires young girls to pursue computer related activities, courses, and careers.” The program–originally called Computer Mania Club–is based out of Fulton Elementary School. Over the course of ten weeks, students meet for weekly two-hour sessions, working…
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Internships at Oracle Labs for IR/NLP/ML
The Information Retrieval and Machine Learning group at Oracle Labs is looking for highly motivated interns for both Spring and Summer 2015. The candidate should be proficient in Machine Learning and/or Statistical NLP. Their current focus is in the areas of search, information extraction, including entity extraction and linking, relationship extraction, sentiment analysis as…
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PhD defense: Huguens Jean, Paper Form Classification for Information Systems Strengthening in Developing Countries
UMBC PhD student Huguens Jean defends his dissertation, Paper form digitization for information systems strengthening and socio-economic development in developing countries, at 1pm on Friday, December 19
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Anupam Joshi named an IEEE Fellow
UMBC Professor Anupam Joshi was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to security, privacy and data management in mobile and pervasive systems.
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MS defense: Epileptic Seizure Detection using Symbolic Aggregate Approximation and Bag of Patterns
UMBC graduate student Sidharth Allani will defend his MS thesis, SAX-BOP: Epileptic Seizure Detection using Symbolic Aggregate Approximation and Bag of Patterns, at 1:00pm on Friday, December 12 in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
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Dr. Rick Forno discusses infrastructure security with SIGNAL magazine
In the December 2014 issue of AFCEA’s SIGNAL Magazine, CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno comments on the likelihood of a destructive cyberattack on critical American infrastructure. He was one of several experts discussing US Cyber Command’s worry about such potential incidents and how it might respond. He believes a major cyber attack against critical infrastructure is…
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PhD Proposal: Learning Representation and Modeling Time Series
UMBC PhD student Zhiguang Wang will present his dissertation proposal, Learning Representation and Modeling Time Series, at 10:00am on Friday, December 12, 2015 in room 325b of the ITE Building.
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Daily Record profiles UMBC's cybersecurity education & training
UMBC’s Cybersecurity Graduate Program Director Dr. Rick Forno and Homer Minnick, Director of UMBC Training Centers’ Cyber Academy, were featured in a recent Daily Record article examining how local universities support the cybersecurity education and training needs of corporate, military, and intelligence employers. More information: UMBC’s Graduate Cybersecurity Program UMBC Training Centers Cyber Academy
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PhD Proposal: Increased Autonomy with Robotics for Daily Living
PhD student Kavita Preethi Krishnaswamy will present her dissertation proposal, Increased Autonomy with Robotics for Daily Living at 5:30pm on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 in ITE 325B with an accompanying live webcast at http://goo.gl/5JmjlR and http://youtu.be/qu8S6IUsCa0
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PhD proposal: Omar Shehab, A quantum approach to the graph isomorphism and knot classification problems
PhD Dissertation Proposal A quantum approach to the graph isomorphism and knot classification problems Omar Shehab 11:30am Monday, 08 December 2014, ITE 346 Simulating physics on a quantum computer can be reduced to solving mathematical problem using quantum mechanics. In this PhD dissertation proposal, I present two important mathematical problems to be investigated using quantum…
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