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If you are a computer science or computing engineering major, you should consider joining the Council of Computing Majors (CCM). This is a student organization that represents undergraduate CMSC and CMPE majors. Austin Murdock and Amanda Pyryt have revived the CCM and will lead the initial meeting for the year this coming Monday, October 7th from 12-1pm in Admin 101.

If you are interested in speaking with other Computer Science and Computer Engineering majors at UMBC, or interested in learning more about computing please feel free to attend! This year we are also introducing a system to set up study groups for your major.

The initial meeting will include a presentation from a Windows representative about Windows 8.1. This is the first major major update for the Windows 8 operating system and is expected to be released later this month.

The CSEE office staff did a great job of decorating the ITE325 suite for UMBC’s 2013 Homecoming week, October 7-11. See some pictures of their Maryland Beach Picnic themed display and stop by ITE325 during the week to experience the full multimedia effect and let the Department’s staff know what you think of their effort.

The UMBC alumni association is soliciting votes for the best decorations in three categories: faculty and staff, residence halls and student organizations. You can see the contestants and vote for your favorites online at the Alumni Association’s site.

Please vote before the poll closes on Tuesday, October 8.

UMBC Quantum Computation Seminar

Thermal light N-qubits, part II

Yanhau Shih

Physics Department, UMBC

2:30-4:00 Tuesday, 8 October 2013, ITE 325b

This talk will discuss a few recent experiments on Nth-order interference of N independent and incoherent thermal fields from their intensity fluctuation correlation measurement. The observed interference is similar to that of entangled states. These experiments have demonstrated the possibility of producing N-qubits from N incoherent thermal fields.

Yanhua Shih received his B.S. degree in theoretical physics from Northwestern University of China in 1981, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1987. He joined the Faculty of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1989 and established the Quantum Optics Program at UMBC. He is currently Professor of Physics at UMBC. His research interests include fundamental problems of quantum theory and general relativity.

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

CODE2040 brings high performing Black and Latino computer science, computer engineering and mathematics students to Silicon Valley for a comprehensive summer fellowship program. The program consists of:

• a paid internship with a top startup,
• mentoring,
• a speaker series,
• company visits,
• interactive workshops,
• executive coaching,
• and more.

During the past 2 summers, CODE2040 fellows:

• met executives at tech powerhouses Google and Facebook,
• sat down with partners at top venture firms Kleiner Perkins and Greylock,
• were mentored by early employees at YouTube and Quora,
• worked at leading edge startups Tumblr and Jawbone,
• visited trendsetting companies Zynga and Square,
• presented an original engineering project to founders from around the Valley,
• and more.

In Summer 2014, CODE2040 will partner with dozens of Silicon Valley's best companies to welcome 20 students into its career-launching fellows program.

Why is CODE2040 important? Census projections show that people of color will collectively be the majority in the United States in the year 2040. Yet there is no indication that the substantial economic achievement gap is closing at the same rate. CODE2040 aims to make a direct impact on the gap by increasing the number of underrepresented minorities participating in and leading the high value, innovation economy - an economy centered in Silicon Valley.

An information session will be held October 14 

visit http://my.umbc.edu/groups/careers/events/20127 for details

CSEE Alumna Jeehye Yun (BS CS, 1997) has been selected by the UMBC Alumni Association as the 2013 Outstanding Alumnus from Engineering and Information Technology. The 2013 awards will be presented on Thursday, October 10 at an awards ceremony in the Albin O. Kuhn Library on the UMBC campus.

Jeehye Yun is the founder and CEO of Secured Sciences Group (SSG) where she is responsible for the strategy and operations. SSG is located in UMBC’s Research and Technology Park and specializes in compliance streamlining with service focus areas in Independent Verification and Validation, Cybersecurity and software engineering. Ms. Yun took the company from a single commercial service contract to four million per year in revenue from 2004 to 2009.

Before founding the company, she served as Director of Computing Facilities at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) where she managed the teams supporting infrastructure of research labs, including the Institute’s Global Land Cover Facility, High Performance Computing Lab, Clustered Computing resources, Visualization and experimental networking labs. Ms. Yun also managed staff supporting UMIACS technical and business computing.

CSEE faculty and staff will also remember Jeehye from her work with DoIT, where she worked as a systems programmer and administrator as an undergraduate. She also developed and taught a course on Information Security for the department as a part-time instructor after finishing her undergraduate degree.

Next Friday UMBC will host the Third Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL). This is a one day, student run event that brings together students, postdocs, faculty and researchers from universities in the Mid-Atlantic area doing research on speech, language or machine learning.

This year MASC-SLL will be held from 10am to 5pm on Friday 11 October on the seventh floor of the Albert O. Kuhn Library. The program includes more than 30 posters, eight short talks, three breakout sessions and a panel. More than 100 students and postdocs from 13 universities are expected to participate. Seven projects involving UMBC students will be presented.

The event was organized by a student committee including five PhD students: Snigdha Chaturvedi (UMCP), Ben Johnson (UMBC), Michael Paul (JHU), Jennifer Sleeman (UMBC) and Bryan Wilkinson (UMBC). They were supported by a program committee of 14 additional students from seven universities in the middle-Atlantic region.

The first MASC-SLL colloquium was held in 2011 at Johns Hopkins University and the second in 2012 at the University of Maryland, College Park. This year the colloquium was made possible with the generous support of the UMBC Provost office, UMBC Graduate School, the UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology and the UMBC CSEE Department.

We look forward to welcoming MASC-SLL participants and hearing about their research.