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Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images Computer Scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee participated in the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony this evening. He was honored as the inventor of the World Wide Web,...

Photo courtesy bgr.com Attention Apple fans: the company's much anticipated OS X Mountain Lion is finally available to download starting today, reports Mashable.com. The latest OS update boasts...

  MS Thesis defense Dynamically Reconfigurable Layered Filesystem Sunil Venkatesh 10:00am Thursday, 26 July 2012, ITE 325b Traditionally, all files and directories in Linux and...

"I owe you a beer" is a phrase that's thrown around a lot with very little follow through. UMBC Alumnus Sean Kennedy (Information Systems '06) created a smartphone application that could change...

Take a look at the latest infographic from Edudemic.com. (Click here for a version that you can actually read.) It's called "Components of a 21st Century Classroom" and it looks at how...

In a recent essay in the Baltimore Sun, James M. Purtilo, a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, outlines the myriad ways that Maryland is...

(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) "Despite the growing numbers of successful women in once male-dominated professions like medicine and law, computer science remains overwhelmingly a boys...

  MS Thesis Defense Federating Disjoint Wireless Networks Using a Mix of Stationary and Mobile Nodes Ahmad Abbas 12:00PM Thursday 26th July 2012, Room ITE 325b In many applications...

MS Thesis Defense On MIMO Channel Modeling and Capacity Using the Channel Correlation Matrix Anush Chandrasekaran 1:00pm Wednesday, 18 July 2012, ITE 325b Communication systems have...

Mac or PC? Desktop or Laptop? Unless you plan to be a Visual Arts major, the computer you bring to UMBC doesn't have to meet any special requirements. But, the truth is that an old computer that...