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Talk: Smart Grid Demand Response, 4pm Wed 8/17

Demand Response; What is it and What are the Business Opportunities? Dr. Bjorn Frogner 4:00pm Wednesday, 17 August 2011 Maryland Clean Energy Technology Incubator UMBC South Campus...

Posted: August 15, 2011, 6:03 PM

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

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

PhD defense: Temporal Frame Comparison Function for...

Full Title: PhD defense: Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Finding a Temporal Frame Comparison Function for the Metacognitive Loop...

Posted: July 15, 2011, 2:47 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

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

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