News

Professor Offutt and students at Mason weigh in on Amazon coming to Northern Virginia

Nov. 15, 2018, 5:29 a.m.

Professor Offutt  and students at Mason weigh in on Amazon coming to Northern Virginia in an interview with Tim Barber/ ABC7 News

Events

• Reconstructing Reality: From Physical World to Virtual Environments

  Nov 26
  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Research Hall 163

  Ming Lin, University of Maryland

• From Clustering to Variant Discovery: Algorithmics Opportunities in Microbiome Research

  Nov 30
  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Research Hall 163

  Mihai Pop, University of Maryland

Research Highlights

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  Learning Analytics Provides Actionable Insights towards College Student Success

  College students may one day choose their courses the same way they choose books on Amazon. A computer program will suggest the best classes for them, based on grades in other courses, career goals, instructor preference, and learning style.

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  Microtask Programming

  Can software be built through self-contained ten-minute contributions? In microtask crowdsourcing, transient contributors are given a short, well-defined task and an interface purpose-built for completing it. 

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  Towards Integrated Wireless Networking and Sensing using Millimeter-wave

  Professor Parth Pathak’s research investigates the design of next generation of wireless networks that can provide very high data rate wireless links and enable smart indoor spaces.

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  Community and Topic Detection

  Community and topic detection in a research collaboration network from NSF awards granted by the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) between January 1995 and August 2014.