Congratulations to CSEE lecturer Susan Mitchell who, on April 6, 2012, successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Software Process Improvement through the Removal of Project-level Knowledge Flow Obstacles: The Perceptions of Software Engineers.” Eight years ago, Dr. Mitchell began working toward her Ph.D. in Software Engineering through UMBC’s Information Systems Department. Working as a lecturer [...]
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posted Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Congratulations to our Computer Science and Electrical Engineering undergraduate students who have recently been selected as Undergraduate Research Award (URA) Scholars. The URA provides undergraduates with up to $1,500 to fund their original research projects. The work is done in conjunction with a faculty mentor, and is then presented at UMBC's Undergraduate Research and Creative [...]
posted Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Each year, UMBC's Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) gives hardworking undergraduate researchers from all disciplines an outlet for presenting the findings of their unique research projects. On April 25th, 2012, a handful of students from the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department (CSEE) will be part of that motley crew. Click on the [...]
posted Friday, April 13th, 2012
This Saturday, April 14, 2012, students in the ENES101 Introduction to Engineering Science course will be competing in UMBC's second AROW competition. AROW, which stands for Academy Robotics on the Water, is an introductory engineering design experience developed by Captain Jonathan Russell, Lt. Cmdr. Brian Maggi and Stephen Grenier at the US Coast Guard Academy. [...]
posted Monday, April 9th, 2012
Multiclass Datasets, Their Predictions, and Their Visualization Wallace Brown and Alexander Morrow with Kevin Winner Senior, Computer Science Sophomore, Computer Science Many datasets contain a wealth of information. For example, a person may be described by their race, age, gender, income, marital status, nationality, level of education, etc. By analyzing this data, we can form [...]
posted Monday, April 9th, 2012
Analyzing Social Media Data Morgan Madeira Junior, Computer Science Social media has increasingly become an outlet for expression for a large part of our society. Literature suggests that analyzing data from these sites can lead to improvements in areas such as health-care and search-ad targeting. Users of these sites often associate with many other users [...]
posted Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
10am Mon 4/16: A panel discussion on Graduate School: Before, During, and After, with Dr. Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech), Dr. Jeffrey Forbes (National Science Foundation), Mr. James MacGlashan (UMBC CSEE Ph.D. Candidate) and Ms. Alyson Young (UMBC HCC Ph.D. student).
posted Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
1pm Mon 4/16: Professor Ellen Zegura of Georgia Tech will talk on Computing in Cirrus Clouds: The Challenge of Intermittent Connectivity at 1pm on Monday 16 April, 2012 in ITE 325b, UMBC.