There have been reports over the past weeks about Stuxnet, a new malware system that experts say is designed to seek out and damage certain kinds kind of industrial sites. Some argue that it has...
September 23, 2010
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The New York times has a short article, The 8-Year-Old Programmer, on Kodu, a programming environment intended to help young children learn to write programs. “Kodu, built by a team at...
September 21, 2010
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Read a good book lately? Why not nominate it for the 2011 UMBC New Student Book Experience, which invites new UMBC students to read the selected book and engage in formal and informal discussions...
September 20, 2010
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Full Title: UMBC Linux Users Group Installfest, Fri 9/24/2010,The Commons Got Linux? Let your computer know who is boss! The UMBC Linux Users Group (LUG) is holding a Linux Installfest from...
September 20, 2010
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The peer review process is central to most research disciplines and is used in the selection of papers for publication and research proposals for funding. A new paper by Stefan Thurner and...
September 19, 2010
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This sounds like a book worth reading, Proofiness – The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife. It is reviewed in tomorrow’s New York Times — Fibbing With Numbers. It goes...
September 18, 2010
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Technology review has a short article on new work on doing gait analysis with the accelerometers built into many smart phones, Smart Phones that Know Their Users by How They Walk. The results are...
September 16, 2010
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This is a call for bids to host the Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) in 2013. Bids will be considered from all geographical regions; however,...
September 16, 2010
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Jose Antonio Vargas profiles Mark Zuckerberg in this week’s New Yorker in The Face of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg opens up. It’s a short piece, but I learned a few facts. One in fourteen people in...
September 13, 2010
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The second talk in the smart grid seminar series will feature Virginiia Tech Professor Robert Broadwater who will talk on Integrated System Model for Electric Grids at 4:00pm on Monday 20...
September 12, 2010
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