Sat 4/28 10-4:The Sixth UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference (DEC) will be held this Saturday, April 28 from 10:00am to 4:00pm in LH1 in the Biological Sciences building.
Category: Undergraduate
posted Monday, April 16th, 2012
The ACM and IEEE Computer Society jointly sponsor the development of a Computing Curricula volume on Computer Science. Their joint task force has just released a Strawman draft of the the CS2013 report.
posted Saturday, April 14th, 2012
We've starting to see advertisements for a new kind of position: privacy engineer. If you've seen the classic movie, The Graduate, you'll remember the conversation that recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock has with a friend of his father, who says "I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. … Are you [...]
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 Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Next Century Corporation is looking for prospective software engineers to join their team as interns and full time employees. The local technology company was named one of Baltimore Magazine’s “Best Places to Work” in 2011. “Next Century is driven by something far deeper than software, hardware, and dollars and cents,” says the company’s website. “We [...]