This passed weekend, some of our nation’s leading intellectuals gathered at NYU’s Performing Arts Center. Why? To share their predictions as to what’s in store for us in 2013. The World in...
December 12, 2012
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UMBC Computer Science Alumni Donald Miner (BS '06, PhD '10) (left) and Adam Shook (BS '09, MS expected '13) (right) have written a book on the popular MapReduce paradigm that has revolutionized...
December 12, 2012
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Are US labor unions in trouble? A new law passed in Michigan may suggest so. This week the state legislature became the 24th state to pass a controversial Right-to-Work law. This law...
December 11, 2012
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Following the news last week that South Carolina’s Jim DeMint (R) is leaving the Senate to head the Heritage Foundation we decided to check to see who might replace the conservative icon. In...
December 11, 2012
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Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Supporting Citizen Science and Biodiversity Informatics on the Semantic Web Joel Sachs 10:00am Friday, 14 December 2012, ITE 325b It is common for Semantic Web...
December 10, 2012
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On December 12, CSEE professor Hillol Kargupta will receive the 10-year Highest-Impact Paper Award from the IEEE International Data Mining Conference (ICDM) in Brussels, Belgium. The winning...
December 10, 2012
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Reuters: Tis the season to protest and not passively purchase. It may not be news to many that the winner of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize was the European Union. What is news is the continuing...
December 10, 2012
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Image By: Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York The New York Post caused a public uproar this week, publishing a cover photo that shows a man just seconds away from...
December 7, 2012
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Courtesy of FaithWorld Twitter’s “everybody has one!” plague has hit the Vatican. This past week, Pope Benedict XVI dove into the world of digital ministry, setting up a Twitter handle in...
December 6, 2012
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Suppose every telephone call you made was recorded by someone. Imagine also that all of your calls are being kept by your carrier for a couple of years… then, when law enforcement said they...
December 6, 2012
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