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Attack of the patent trolls

This week’s story on This American Life, When Patents Attack, is a good introduction to how the patent system is being used and abused, especially in the software industry. I listened to it today...

Posted: July 23, 2011, 2:28 PM

Perks help tech startups attract and retain employees

While you can find a treehouse to rent using Airbnb, they also have a mockup of one for their employees to chill in. Last week’s Wall Street Journal had a story, The Perk Bubble Is Growing as...

Posted: July 15, 2011, 10:51 PM

Perks help tech startups attract and retain employees

While you can find a treehouse to rent using Airbnb, they also have a mockup of one for their employees to chill in. Last week’s Wall Street Journal had a story, The Perk Bubble Is Growing as...

Posted: July 15, 2011, 10:51 PM

MS defense: Mitigating Coverage Loss in Wireless...

Full Title: MS defense: Mitigating Coverage Loss in Wireless Sensor Networks MS Thesis Defense Distributed Approach for Mitigating Coverage Loss in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor networks...

Posted: July 13, 2011, 8:47 AM

CSEE Research Review awards and pictures

2011 CSEE Research Review photos · program · posters · location · call for papers The 2011 research review event was the largest to date, with more than eighty people attending. You can see...

Posted: May 9, 2011, 6:45 AM

BEL@UMBC is UMBC’s New Bioelectronics Laboratory

Professor Gymama Slaughter joined the department as an Assistant Professor in 2010 and established the Bioelectronics Laboratory as a group doing research on Bioelectronics and optimization...

Posted: April 26, 2011, 9:21 PM

Maryland Cyber Conference and Challenge (MDC3)

The Maryland Cyber Challenge and Conference site is up and student teams can now register for the competition, with the first qualifying round early in September. It is a chance to demonstrate...

Posted: April 20, 2011, 2:55 PM

CSEE undergraduates present work at URCAD

Congratulations to the CSEE undergraduate students and groups who will be presenting posters on their research as part of the Fifteenth Annual UMBC Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement...

Posted: April 7, 2011, 4:27 PM

Computing enrollments up 10% nationwide

The CRA reports that total enrollments among U.S. computer science undergraduates increased 10% in 2010 based on data from its most recent annual Taulbee Survey. This is the third straight year of...

Posted: April 6, 2011, 6:16 PM