We are pleased to announce that iTunes Connect now offers exciting new features and enhancements. The latest version of the iTunes Connect Developer Guide (version 6.9) provides details on these updates, including:

• The ability to add a localizable Publication Name: for Auto-Renewable In-App Purchases in 18 languages;
• The Volume Purchase Program now available for businesses;
• The expansion of the App Store to 33 new territories.

You can read more about these new features and updates in the iTunes Connect Developer Guide.

We are pleased to announce that iTunes Connect now offers exciting new features and enhancements. The latest version of the iTunes Connect Developer Guide (version 6.9) provides details on these updates, including:

• The ability to add a localizable Publication Name: for Auto-Renewable In-App Purchases in 18 languages;
• The Volume Purchase Program now available for businesses;
• The expansion of the App Store to 33 new territories.

You can read more about these new features and updates in the iTunes Connect Developer Guide.

From the Daily Record:

“St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation has appointed two new directors: Ronni Monaghan is the director of development. She has more than a decade of service in Maryland nonprofits, including as director of the Maryland Association of Community Colleges and as a director of institutional research at Johns Hopkins University. Monaghan has a law degree from the University of Baltimore and a master’s degree in policy sciences from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.”

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From the Daily Record:

“St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation has appointed two new directors: Ronni Monaghan is the director of development. She has more than a decade of service in Maryland nonprofits, including as director of the Maryland Association of Community Colleges and as a director of institutional research at Johns Hopkins University. Monaghan has a law degree from the University of Baltimore and a master’s degree in policy sciences from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.”

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Dr. Sergei Nirenburg, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, is a member of the truly smart agents research group (TSA), where he works on building artificial intelligent agents capable of human behavior. Since 2006, Dr. Nireburg has been working on the Maryland Virtual Patient (MVP) Project, a multi-level heterogeneous agent-oriented environment that simulates a doctor-patient relationship by way of a "virtual patient."

To read more about Dr. Nirenburg's research pursuits, see his full research profile.

Dr. Gymama Slaughter, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, runs UMBC's Bioelectronics Laboratory (BEL@UMBC), which combines different projects in the areas of electronics, biology, medicine and chemistry. She is currently working on designing a closed-loop system that monitors blood glucose levels and administers insulin to diabetic patients. Dr. Slaughter says that what she desires most is to reduce complications in the lives of diabetic patients and their families. “If I can do that,” she says, “I will count what I do as successful.”

To read more about Dr. Slaughter's research pursuits, see her full research profile.

Dr. Tim Finin, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, specializes in artificial intelligence and has been working on developing smart phones that can guage their user's "context." “What I have always found interesting since I was an Undergraduate was the idea that we could make machines as smart as people,” explains Dr. Finin, whose research involving semantic web technology is directed towards realizing that goal.

To read more about Dr. Finin's research pursuits, see his full research profile.