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TL;DR version: if you have Java 7 on your computer, update it. Now. The Java programming language helped to make the Web popular in the mid 1990s by its invention of the Web applet. The idea was...

Making Sense For his master's thesis, Computer Engineering student Kirit Chatterjee worked with scientists from UMBC's Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) on an innovative temperature...

Congratulations to our December Ph.D. graduates! Read on to hear about their Ph.D. dissertation research and their plans for the future.    Dr. Karuna Joshi Computer Science...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, MD (20 minutes south of UMBC), offers a wide array of valuable, paid internships for Undergraduates in the summer.  Please see the attached flyers. ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, MD (20 minutes south of UMBC), offers a wide array of valuable, paid internships for Undergraduates in the summer.  Please see the attached flyers. ...

This week the UMBC chess program will field a team in the 2012 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship which will take place December 27-30 in Princeton, NJ. The UMBC team is shown...

Applications are now being accepted for the Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) and the Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS). US citizens capable of receiving security...

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is an extraordinary opportunity for a group of students and young researchers to interact with some of the greatest minds of Mathematics and Computer Science for a...

  The Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research is a collaborative research center sponsored by the National Science Foundation with two university partners (UMBC and University of...

UMBC Computer Science Alumni Donald Miner (BS '06, PhD '10) (left) and Adam Shook (BS '09, MS expected '13) (right) have written a book on the popular MapReduce paradigm that has revolutionized...