IEEE – Job Search Workshop

12:00-1:00 Monday, 11 November 2013, ITE LH 7

Join IEEE for a job search workshop. A Career Services’ expert will give a presentation tailored for STEM grad students. Learn about job search techniques that work best for those in a STEM major and start your search now.

It could take up to 9 months to find a job after graduation… Don’t wait until your last year to start looking for a job.

Kick start your job search with us, November 11th, at noon, in Lecture Hall 7. No matter where you are in your studies, it’s never too early to start job searching. Lunch will be served!

RSVP online.

IEEE – Job Search Workshop

12:00-1:00 Monday, 11 November 2013, ITE LH 7

Join IEEE for a job search workshop. A Career Services’ expert will give a presentation tailored for STEM grad students. Learn about job search techniques that work best for those in a STEM major and start your search now.

It could take up to 9 months to find a job after graduation… Don’t wait until your last year to start looking for a job.

Kick start your job search with us, November 11th, at noon, in Lecture Hall 7. No matter where you are in your studies, it’s never too early to start job searching. Lunch will be served!

RSVP online.

NBA Internship Program offers college students an exciting opportunity to use their skills and classroom learning within a national sports environment. Imagine having a real job experience and being able to learn all about the NBA at the same time.

Students must be juniors or seniors already attending a U.S. accredited college or university, first and second-year graduate students, and law students. Internship positions are located either in New York City (Manhattan) or Secaucus, New Jersey. Each office will have different positions available, and students will be matched to a position based on their skills and experience. 

Interns will not be fetching coffee for other office employees. They will get hands-on experience in their field and learn how the NBA League Office operates. The internship is 10 weeks long and is offered every summer; interns work 40 hours a week. Students will work and learn, but also be able to attend NBA events and other activities.

Students may apply online for internships in marketing, communications, human resources, information technology, business, media, events and much more. 

For more details, visit 

http://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_nba/external/gateway.do?functionName=viewFromLink&jobPostId=3896&localeCode=en-us

NBA Internship Program offers college students an exciting opportunity to use their skills and classroom learning within a national sports environment. Imagine having a real job experience and being able to learn all about the NBA at the same time.

Students must be juniors or seniors already attending a U.S. accredited college or university, first and second-year graduate students, and law students. Internship positions are located either in New York City (Manhattan) or Secaucus, New Jersey. Each office will have different positions available, and students will be matched to a position based on their skills and experience. 

Interns will not be fetching coffee for other office employees. They will get hands-on experience in their field and learn how the NBA League Office operates. The internship is 10 weeks long and is offered every summer; interns work 40 hours a week. Students will work and learn, but also be able to attend NBA events and other activities.

Students may apply online for internships in marketing, communications, human resources, information technology, business, media, events and much more. 

For more details, visit 

http://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_nba/external/gateway.do?functionName=viewFromLink&jobPostId=3896&localeCode=en-us

UMBC Information Systems Department

Topical Search in Twitter

Dr. Niloy Ganguly

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

1:00pm Tuesday, 5 November 2013, ITE 459

Twitter is now a popular platform for discovering real-time news on various topics. We are developing methodologies to improve topical search in Twitter, specifically search for topical experts and popular content on specific topics. Utilizing social annotations provided by the Twitter population through the Lists feature, we have developed the following:

• A novel who-is-who system for Twitter, which gives the topical attributes of a specified user. The list-based methodology gives accurate and comprehensive topical attributes for millions of popular Twitter users.
• A search system for topical experts in Twitter. Comparison of our system with the expert search service offered by Twitter shows that the List-based method provide better results for a large number of topical queries.
• A novel topical search system which, given a topic, identifies and clusters the content (tweets, hashtags) being discussed by the community of experts on that topic. Our methodology gives relevant and trustworthy content for a wide range of topics. To the best our knowledge, this is the first systematic attempt to utilize social annotations to provide topical search in Twitter.

Niloy Ganguly is an associate professor in the department of computer science and engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He received his PhD from Bengal Engineering and Science University, Calcutta, India and his Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He has been a post doctoral fellow in Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He focuses on investigating several different aspects on online-social networks. He has worked on designing recommendation system based on community structures on various web-social networks like Twitter and Delicious. He has also simultaneously worked on various theoretical issues related to dynamical large networks often termed as complex networks. Specifically he has looked into problems related to percolation, evolution of networks as well as flow of information over these networks. He has been collaborating with various national and international universities and research lab including Duke University, TU Dresden, Germany, MPI PKS and MPI SWS, Germany, Microsoft Lab, India etc. He currently publishes in various top ranking international journals and conferences including CCS, PODC, ICDM, ACL, WWW, INFOCOM, SIGIR, Euro Physics Letters, Physical Review E, ACM and IEEE Transactions, etc.

CSEE Professors Tinoosh Mohsenin and Gymama Slaughter each received recent grants from NSF to apply their computing engineering expertise to develop new medical technology. What follows is an excerpt from a recent article on their work written by Joel N.Shurkin.

The Body Electric: UMBC researchers forge links between tech and medicine

Monitoring significant developments in a patient’s health outside a hospital setting can be challenging, but two UMBC researchers – Tinoosh Mohsenin and Gymama Slaughter – have won separate grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help meet those challenges.

Mohsenin received a $100,000 grant from the NSF to develop signal processing architecture to detect seizures. The award of $150,000 to Slaughter from the foundation was to pursue work on nanoelectric probe arrays.

Not only does the work done by these two UMBC professors have important implications for basic medical science, but it is also research that may also provide more insight into how we think and feel, or improve how people with disabilities navigate in the world.

The U.S. Census Bureau cordially invites you to the U.S. Federal Statistical Agencies Fall Outreach Symposium.  The symposium will feature sessions on Statistics for Journalists and Statistics in the New Media Era.  We believe it will be a great opportunity for your students to learn about the extensive statistics from the federal government.  These statistics are widely used by communications professionals in journalism and public relations.  Presenters will discuss the official statistics produced by their agencies:

 

November 14, 10:00 to 12:00: Statistics for Journalists, Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center

 

Journalism students and reporters from broadcast, print and online media outlets will find this session helpful to their understanding of lesser-known federal statistical agencies, official statistics produced by these agencies, and how they can access and use official statistics, studies and analyses in their reporting. Presenters will include representatives of the Economic Research Service, National Center for Education Statistics, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, and National Center for Health Statistics.

 

November 14, 1:00 to 3:00: Statistics in the New Media Era, Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center

This two-hour session focuses on digital and new media; in particular on some of the new media covered in the President’s Digital Strategy such as API’s, apps, infographics and other data visualizations.  Agencies will share examples of how they are adapting new technology and how this helped them give the public easier access to data.

 

There is no registration fee for the symposium. However, advance registration is required to ensure access to the BLS Conference Center. A detailed list of ALL presentations can be found in the attachment included on this news post.

To register, send an email to Wendy Martinez at martinez.wendy@bls.gov with “Symposium” in the subject line and include the attendees full name, a list of the session(s) attendee plans to attend, and any special needs, e.g., handicap access. For more information, see the press release.

Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Quantum Computing Seminar

The Strange World of Quantum Computing

Samuel Lomonaco, CSEE, UMBC

2:30-3:00 Tuesday, 5 November 2013, ITE 325b

This talk will give an introductory overview of quantum computing in an intuitive and conceptual fashion. No prior knowledge of quantum mechanics will be assumed. This is the first of a series of talks based on the four invited lectures given at Oxford. PowerPoint slides can be found online here.

Samuel J. Lomonaco is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering of the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is internationally known for his many contributions in mathematics and in computer science. His research interests span a wide range of subjects from knot theory, algebraic and differential topology to algebraic coding theory, quantum computation, and symbolic computation. In quantum cryptography, he has shown how quantum information theory can be used to gain a better understanding of eavesdropping with quantum entanglement. In quantum computation, he has shown how Lie groups can be used to solve problems arising in the study of quantum entanglement. In 2000 Professor Lomonoco organized the first American Mathematical Society short course on quantum computation.

Organizer: Prof. Samuel Lomonaco, Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address.

M.S. Thesis Defense
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Fast Modular Exponentiation Using Residue Domain Representation:
A Hardware Reference Implementation and Analysis

Christopher D. Nguyen

12:00–2:00pm, Tuesday, 5 November 2013, ITE 228, UMBC

Using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) we engineered and analyzed the first hardware implementation of Phatak’s reduced-precision residue number system (RP-RNS) to perform modular exponentiation.

Residue number systems (RNSs) provide an alternative representation to the binary system for performing integer arithmetic used in applications such as public-key cryptography and digital signal processing. They offer full parallel computation for addition, subtraction, and multiplication increasing performance from O(K) to O(lg K) for a K-bit number. However, base extension, division, and sign detection become harder operations.

RP-RNS is a new set of algorithms that uses approximation and a time-memory trade-off to address the hard operations. The partial reconstruction (PR) algorithm addresses base extension and the quotient-first scaling (QFS) algorithm addresses scaling. RP-RNS modular exponentiation uses the PR and QFS algorithms. RP-RNS improves performance of modular multiplication in an RNS with range [0, M-1] from the O((lg n)^2) delay of current systems (e.g. Cox-Rower) to a theoretical O(lg n) delay where n is the word-length of M.

Our implementation is based on Phatak’s description and recommended architecture diagrams. We found even low-end FPGAs can store over 30 channels of logic. Following the recommendation of parallel look-up table (LUT) access, we distributed the LUTs to be local to each channel. We found this recommendation applied to QFS exceeds the capacity of today’s high-capacity FPGAs (e.g. Xilinx Virtex-7) for modest 2,000-bit divisors. We propose several improvements to increase feasibility; one is to store the LUTs external to the FPGA, which would introduce a performance penalty per look-up.

Committee: Alan Sherman (chair), Dhananjay Phatak, Chintan Patel and
Ryan Robucci

The Council of Computing Majors (CCM) will meet from Noon to 12:45pm on Monday, November 4 in MP 103. The CCM is a student organization representing undergraduate computer science and computer engineering majors and anyone else with an interest in computing. Everyone is welcome.

At next week’s meeting, three computer science graduate students, Prajit Das, Primal Pappachan and Roberto Yus, will demonstrate Google Glass and talk about how they are using it in their research.

Google glass is the latest cool gadget in town. Developed by Google, it is is a wearable computer with a head mounted display. We will talk about the technical capabilities of Google glass as well as about developing apps for it using the Mirror API and the Android Software Development Kit. We will also give a live demo with the device where we will show some apps we developed.