CSEE Students Joe Tuzo (CMSC), JJ Seymour (CMSC) and Varish Mulwad (CMSC) will present papers at the AAAI FAll Symposiumon November 4-6 in Arlington, Virginia. Yasaman Haghpanah (CMSC) will present her research at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing on November 9-12 in Portland, Oregon.

Joe Tuzo (CMSC BS '11) and JJ Seymour (CMSC BS '12) will be presenting papers at the upcoming AAAI Fall Symposium on Complex Adaptive Systems. Joe's paper (co-authored with JJ and Prof. Marie desJardins), " Using a Cellular Automaton Simulation to Determine an Optimal Lane Changing Strategy on a Multi-Lane Highway," and JJ's paper (co-authored with Joe and Prof. desJardins), "Ant Colony Optimization in a Changing Environment," were both based on the students' class projects for Prof. desJardins's "Computation, Complexity, and Emergence" course in Spring 2011.

Computer Science Ph.D. candidate Varish Mulwad will present a paper on his dissertation research at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Open Government Knowledge.  He is developing a system that can automatically infer the meaning of information in a spreadsheet or table and publish it as linked Web data using semantic web languages. Varish's advisor, Dr. Tim Finin, is one of the organizers of the symposium.

Yasaman Haghpanah (CMSC Ph.D. Candidate) will present her research on "A Trust and Reputation Model for Supply Chain Management" in the PhD Forum at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing, which will be held November 9-12, 2011, in Portland, Oregon.  Yasaman's advisor, Dr. Marie desJardins, will also attend the conference as a participant in the Grace Hopper Senior Women's Summit.

CSEE Students Joe Tuzo (CMSC), JJ Seymour (CMSC) and Varish Mulwad (CMSC) will present papers at the AAAI FAll Symposiumon November 4-6 in Arlington, Virginia. Yasaman Haghpanah (CMSC) will present her research at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing on November 9-12 in Portland, Oregon.

Joe Tuzo (CMSC BS '11) and JJ Seymour (CMSC BS '12) will be presenting papers at the upcoming AAAI Fall Symposium on Complex Adaptive Systems. Joe's paper (co-authored with JJ and Prof. Marie desJardins), " Using a Cellular Automaton Simulation to Determine an Optimal Lane Changing Strategy on a Multi-Lane Highway," and JJ's paper (co-authored with Joe and Prof. desJardins), "Ant Colony Optimization in a Changing Environment," were both based on the students' class projects for Prof. desJardins's "Computation, Complexity, and Emergence" course in Spring 2011.

Computer Science Ph.D. candidate Varish Mulwad will present a paper on his dissertation research at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Open Government Knowledge.  He is developing a system that can automatically infer the meaning of information in a spreadsheet or table and publish it as linked Web data using semantic web languages. Varish's advisor, Dr. Tim Finin, is one of the organizers of the symposium.

Yasaman Haghpanah (CMSC Ph.D. Candidate) will present her research on "A Trust and Reputation Model for Supply Chain Management" in the PhD Forum at the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing, which will be held November 9-12, 2011, in Portland, Oregon.  Yasaman's advisor, Dr. Marie desJardins, will also attend the conference as a participant in the Grace Hopper Senior Women's Summit.

On November 15, Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin, assistant professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, will speak at the National Electronics Museum. Dr. Mohsenin runs UMBC's Energy Efficient and High Performance Computing Lab , where she works on developing highly accurate, low-power communication and healthcare devices. The talk, which is hosted by the Baltimore Chapter of IEEE Electron Devices & Solid-State Circuits, will discuss efficient algorithms and architectures for communication applications.

What: “ Energy Efficient and High Performance Architectures for Communication Applications"

Who: Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin

Where: The National Electronics Museum, Pioneer Hall

Time: 5:30- 7:30 p.m.

On November 15, Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin, assistant professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, will speak at the National Electronics Museum. Dr. Mohsenin runs UMBC's Energy Efficient and High Performance Computing Lab , where she works on developing highly accurate, low-power communication and healthcare devices. The talk, which is hosted by the Baltimore Chapter of IEEE Electron Devices & Solid-State Circuits, will discuss efficient algorithms and architectures for communication applications.

What: “ Energy Efficient and High Performance Architectures for Communication Applications"

Who: Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin

Where: The National Electronics Museum, Pioneer Hall

Time: 5:30- 7:30 p.m.

Acts 1:1-10

¹ In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach ² until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. ³ After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. ⁴ On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. ⁵ For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

⁶ Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

⁷ He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. ⁸ But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

⁹ After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

¹⁰ They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.

Acts 2:1-12

¹ When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. ² Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. ³ They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. ⁴ All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

⁵ Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. ⁶ When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. ⁷ Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? ⁸ Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? ⁹ Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome ¹¹ (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” ¹² Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

Reflection:

Acts is the continuation of Luke’s history of all that Jesus began to do and teach.  Luke recalls how previously Jesus told the disciples to stay and wait for the Holy Spirit and we see for the first time in Acts 2 the Spirit being poured out.  It’s another flash point.  The disciples experience God like never before and being filled with the Spirit, they go out speaking the Good News in all different languages to the many hearers present at that time.  So awed are the people hearing, they don’t know what to make of it.

Response:

When God moves, it’s another flash point.  We get to experience and meet God like never before.  Just like the disciples, who were filled with the Spirit, experienced God like never before, we desire that God will continue to pour out His Spirit.  This is not only for us but it is also so that those around us will experience God and be awed so that their hearts will be open to hear the Good News too. Let’s ask God that He will continue to pour out His favor and to empower and fill us with His Spirit.

If you are in the DC area this weekend and are interested in using Semantic Web technologies, you should come to the AAAI 2011 Fall Symposium on Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges. It runs from Friday to Sunday midday at the he Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia.

Join us to meet the thought governmental and business leaders in US open government data activities, and discuss the challenges. The symposium features Friday (Nov 4) as governmental day with speakers on Data.gov, openEi.org, open gov data activities in NIH/NCI and NASA and Saturday (Nov 5) as R&D day with speakers from industry, including Google and Microsoft, as well international researchers.

This symposium will explore how AI technologies such as the Semantic Web, information extraction, statistical analysis and machine learning, can be used to make the valuable knowledge embedded in open government data more explicit, accessible and reusable.

See the OGK website for complete details.