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Talk: Passive House; what is it and how does it work?

Passive House; what is it and how does it work? Brian Uher, ECORE Living 4:00pm Wednesday 20 July 2011 MD Clean Energy Technology Incubator, UMBC South Campus Brian Uher will discuss the...

Posted: July 4, 2011, 11:26 AM

Khan Academy does Computer Science

The Khan Academy is starting to publish a series of short instructional videos on computer science topics. The Introduction to Programming and Computer Science category currently has just 18...

Posted: July 1, 2011, 1:11 PM

Dr. desJardins promoted to full professor

The CSEE Department wishes to extend its congratulations to Dr. Marie desJardins for her recent promotion from associate professor to full professor. Dr. desJardins began teaching at UMBC in 2001...

Posted: June 29, 2011, 2:52 PM

Faculty Research Profile: Dr. Marc Olano

Dr. Marc Olano is the director of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department's Game Development Track and has been pursuing research in computer graphics and computer hardware for...

Posted: June 29, 2011, 10:30 AM

Faculty research profile: Dr. Tim Oates

Dr. Tim Oates, associate professor of computer science, does research in the field of machine learning and is interested in understanding the development of the human brain. Dr. Oates is also...

Posted: June 28, 2011, 11:01 AM

CSEE Department celebrates faculty research

The UMBC CSEE Department will be publishing a series of short research profiles describing the research activities of its faculty and students. The first features Professor Marie desJardins and...

Posted: June 27, 2011, 2:04 PM

Python as the new Basic

Computerworld has a story that discussed the passing of the Basic programming language and asks How are students learning programming in a post-Basic world?. Basic was developed at Dartmouth in...

Posted: June 25, 2011, 11:08 AM

A ‘Sputnik Moment’ for Computer Science?

Today's New York Times has a "Room for Debate" opinion piece, Computer Science's 'Sputnik Moment'?, on the recent surge in interest in computing majors on US campuses. It asks "Will the influx of...

Posted: June 16, 2011, 2:04 AM

Three CSEE faculty and staff retire

                                Three long-time members of the CSEE community retired at the end of the Spring 2011 semester: Professor Sue Evans, Senior Lecturer, has taught Computer Science...

Posted: June 16, 2011, 1:17 AM