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CSEE Professor, Dr. Tim Finin, named UMBC...

Full Title: CSEE Professor, Dr. Tim Finin, named UMBC Presidential Research Professor Dr. Finin has been a faculty member of UMBC’s Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department for over...

Posted: January 9, 2012, 3:46 PM

Deadline for Information Assurance Scholarship Nears

Attention rising Junior and Senior Undergraduate and Graduate students interested in Information Assurance: Thursday, January 12 is the deadline to apply for a scholarship through the Information...

Posted: January 9, 2012, 12:59 PM

UMBC Places 2nd at Pan-American Intercollegiate Team...

Full Title: UMBC Places 2nd at Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship In an exciting close finish, UMBC placed 2nd with 5 points at the 2011 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team...

Posted: January 3, 2012, 9:41 AM

Tech firms like summer interns: Try before you Buy

An article in last week's Wall Street Journal, Interns Are Latest Target In Battle for Tech Talent, focused on the increased interest in hiring summer interns in the Bay area. "Bay Area tech...

Posted: December 27, 2011, 8:03 AM

CSEE programs graduate 114 students in December

We congratulate the 114 students who graduated from our programs in December 2011. Three students received Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, 58 received M.S. degrees in Computer Engineering,...

Posted: December 26, 2011, 9:28 AM

ACM Queue programming challenge

If you’re at loose ends for the semester break and want to sharpen your programming slils, you might try competing in the ACM Queue Magazine online programming competition. You will program a...

Posted: December 20, 2011, 11:58 PM

Cyber Challenge Hones Students’ Cyber Skills

Tyler Campbell, Nick Ducq, Ryan King, Andrew Nguyen and Tim Spillman walked out of the Baltimore Convention Center elated. Their team, the Sherwood Cyber Warriors, had just won the high school...

Posted: December 20, 2011, 11:30 PM

Marie desJardins named ACM Distinguished Member

ACM has recognized CSEE Professor Marie desJardins as a Distinguished Member for her contributions to the field of computing. ACM is the world's largest educational and scientific computing...

Posted: December 17, 2011, 12:36 AM

talk: Oil Spills and Search and Rescue: Key...

Full Title: talk: Oil Spills and Search and Rescue: Key Computational Challenges UMBC CHMPR Colloquium Oil Spills and Search and Rescue: Key Computational Challenges Dr. C. J....

Posted: December 8, 2011, 10:30 PM

UMBC team places second in the DARPA Shredder Challenge

Just over a month ago, DARPA announced The Shredder Challenge competition to develop a system to solve puzzles by reassembling images of shredded documents with a $50,000 prize for the winning...

Posted: December 3, 2011, 3:42 PM