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Photo: The Retriever Weekly This August, UMBC welcomed its inagural batch of Transfer Scholars in Information Technology and Engineering (T-SITE) Scholars (pictured above). The brainchild of...

Photo: Gracehopper.org Facebook has announced that it will award scholarships to 25 women who wish to attend the upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference that will take...

An initial 20 event calendar for the first-ever Baltimore Innovation Week has just been released. Organized by local tech news site Technically Baltimore, the annual event, held from September...

Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin have received a $200,000 research award from the NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems for a two-year project focused on extracting information from...

MS Thesis Defense Calculating Representativeness of Geographic Sites Across the World Ashwinkumar Ganesan 11:00am Friday, 31 August 2012, ITE 325b, UMBC GLOBE is a global correlation...

This Friday, August 31, new and returning students are invited to the Office of Undergraduate Education's Open House. Held from Noon to 2 p.m. in the Academic IV Building (Room 114), the event...

MS Thesis Defense Predicting the Activities of Mobile Phone Users with Hidden Markov Models Amey Sane 9:00am Tuesday, 28 August 2012, ITE 325b, UMBC Mobile phones are ubiquitous and...

If, in getting to this post, you navigated straight to myUMBC and bypassed UMBC's home page, you probably haven't seen its new look. The update is part of a long term project to improve UMBC's...

MS Thesis Defense A Specialist Approach for Classification of Column Data Nikhil Puranik 1:30pm Friday 24 August, 2012, 325b ITE, UMBC Much information is encoded in spreadsheets,...

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Joint Inference for Extracting Soft Biometric Text Descriptorsfrom Patient Triage Images Niyati Chhaya 10:00am Friday, 24 August 2012, ITE 325b, UMBC Disaster...