You don’t know until you try. This is what the leaders behind Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21-Maryland) have figured out. Drs. Marie desJardins, Penny Rheingans, and Susan Martin say that removing the mystery and misconceptions surrounding Computer Science is the key to getting more women and minorities to purse careers in the field. [...]
5/17: Xing Chen will defend his Ph.D. dissertation, High Power Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Laser Array for Standoff Photoacoustic Chemical Detection, at 1:00pm on Friday, May 17, 2013 in the CASPR conference room of the UMBC TRC building.
Google announced that it will establish a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab with NASA to study the use of quantum computing for machne lerning in support of problems including web search, speech recognition, planning and scheduling, search for exoplanets, and support operations in mission control centers. "We believe quantum computing may help solve some of the [...]
5/14: Yan Kang will presenty his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, A Semantic Resolution Framework for
Manufacturing Capability Data Integration, at 10:30am on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 in room 346 ITE at UMBC.
5/16: Yichuan Gui will present his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, Convexification/Deconvexification for Training Neural Networks and Recurrent Deep Learning Machines, at 9:30am on Thursday, 16 May 2013 in ITE 325b at UMBC.
5/13: Sandhya Krishnan will defend her MS thesis, Social Media Analytics: Digital Footprints, at 9:00am on Monday, 13 May 2013 in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
5/7: Rick Forno gave a lecture on the proposed CISPA law to UMBC’s Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
Professor Nilanjan Banerjee's Introduction to Mobile Computing class will hold a poster and demonstration session showcasing student class projects from 12:30 to 2:00 on Tuesday, May 14 in room 210 of the ITE building. The projects inlcude mobile apps, games, and systems that have built during the semester. Pizza will be served. The course was partially [...]
11am 5/10: Adrian Rosebrock will present his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, A Rapidly Deployable Image
Classification System Using Multi-Views, at 11:00am on Friday May 10, 2013 in room 325b if the ITE building at UMBC.
CSEE graduate student Asmita Korde will present a paper on her research with Professor Tinoosh Mohsenin tomorrow at the the SPIE Defense Security and Sensing Conference in the Baltimore Convention Center. Asmita was a UMBC CWIT Scholar and received a BS degree in Computer Engineering in 2011. She is now finishing her MS degree at UMBC [...]