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Google’s Crisis Response team has a landing page for the Gulf oil spill featuring overlays for Google Maps/Earth. This joins their pages for other recent natural disasters, such as the...
May 25, 2010
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10:37 AM
Professor Alan Sherman reports that UMBC has won the “Final Four of College Chess” for 2010: “Undefeated, UMBC finished the President’s Cup (Final Four of College Chess) 1/2 point above the...
April 11, 2010
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7:30 PM
Journal of Web Semantics Special Issue on Using Provenance in the Semantic Web Editors: Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute and Paul Groth, Free...
March 15, 2010
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12:17 PM
Full Title: Kaggle aims to host data-driven machine learning competitions Kaggle is a site for data-related competitions in machine learning, statistics and econometrics. Companies,...
February 3, 2010
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6:36 AM
Via Marc Olano: The Global Game Jam is into its second day at UMBC with 41 registered participants working on seven games. Keep up from home with our live video feed and games list.
January 30, 2010
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6:45 PM
UMBC will be the Baltimore site for the Global Game Jam. This is a 48 hour event, where teams from around the globe will work to each develop a complete game over one weekend. Last year, the UMBC...
January 28, 2010
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3:31 PM
The Journal of Web Semantics has announced two new special issues. Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Jeff Heflin are editing a special issue on web-scale semantic information processing with a deadline...
January 23, 2010
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2:40 AM
The economist has an article, Gamblers united, on Spain’s lotteries, like El Gordo (“the Fatty”) will will pay out €2.3 billion this year. What I found interesting is that this and other Spanish...
January 3, 2010
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12:46 AM
Shades of Y2K! Mike Cardwell reports on a rule in Spamassassin that judges any message sent in or after 2010 as “grossly in the future” and treats this as evidence of it being spam. I just checked...
January 1, 2010
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3:18 PM
UMBC won the 2009 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship yesterday with perfect score of 6.0 points. This year’s tournament was held in South Padre Island, Texas on December 27-30...
December 31, 2009
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10:29 AM