Dr. Chang Awarded "Academic Innovation Grant"

Dr. Elizabeth Chang was awarded an Academic Innovation Grant with her proposal "Inverted Classroom Teaching for Computer Graphics".

intern / programming / mobile / Hood alum

Company: Spotluck Inc.

Industry: Food/Beverage & Software (download the app!)

Hours: ~15/week

Location: Bethesda, MD (one day/week in office)

Pay: $15/hour

Required skills/experience:

• Proactive, self-starter
• Clear written and verbal skills
• MV* JavaScript Frameworks, preferably AngularJS
• Solid understanding of SQL and MySQL databases.
• Front end web technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
• Hybrid Mobile App Development (e.g. HTML5, Frameworks like Cordova, Phonegap and Ionic)
• Data visualization techniques using JS libraries.
• Familiar with single page web app architectures using Node.js and NPM.
• Understanding of modern grid-based responsive frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation and HTML5 techniques to develop responsive apps.

Detail: Spotluck acquires extensive and valuable app usage data. Certain data points are provided to Spotluck’s merchants via a web dashboard (e.g., number of diners, discount utilization, “spin” stats, diner demographical data, reviews/ratings). Spotluck also has an admin dashboard where we monitor platform-wide statistics. This position would assist in running database queries to extract information and then transforming that information into user-friendly charts and dashboards.

Contact: Bradford Sayler, brad@spotluck.com, 240-446-6632

 

Thanks again!

 

Bradford J. Sayler

Chief Financial Officer

240-446-6632

Skype: bsayler9

Java + SQL developer position

We received this from an alum:
https://www.dice.com/jobs/detail/Software-Developer%2C-Java-%26-SQL-OMNITEC-Solutions%2C-Inc.-Bethesda-MD-20892/RTL239050/150003MD

Symposium on "Exploring Careers in a Scientific Environment"

Greetings,

I want to alert you to a great opportunity next week at Hood.  The National Interagency Confederation for Biological Research (NICBR) is holding a symposium on "Exploring Careers in a Scientific Environment".  The symposium was originally set up for FCPS teachers (specifically local Science and STEM coordinators/curriculum specialists) who could, in turn, share this information with their students.  However, once the venue was moved from Fort Detrick to Hood, the organizers were delighted to open this up to Hood faculty, staff and students.

The event is on Friday, February 13, 2015, from 12:30-3:00 p.m. in the Hodson auditorium in Rosenstock Hall.  You and your students are welcome to attend.

As the attached flyer notes: 

The event is sponsored by the NICBR, a partnership of government laboratories located on the Fort Detrick-Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research campus.  The partners include the U.S. Army; National Cancer Institute; Department of Homeland Security; Department of Agriculture; U.S. Navy; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The goal of the symposium is to present information regarding science-related career paths to educators.  The symposium will include presentations by the NICBR partners that will:

*             Give an overview of research being performed at Fort Detrick

*             Illustrate the types of careers that require science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and

*             Highlight internship opportunities.

Please encourage your students (undergrad/grad) to attend.  There is no need to register for the event.   I will send out a separate email to the student listservs.

Cheers,

Maria

Maria Green Cowles, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School

and Professor of Political Science   The Graduate School at Hood College
  401 Rosemont Avenue 
  Frederick, MD 21701
  Email: cowles@hood.edu
  Phone: 301-696-3811 Fax: 301 696-3597

Please join us for a Graduate School Event

  http://www.hood.edu/gradevents/

REU: Research Experience for Undergraduate Summer 2015

NSF REU programs present an rare opportunity for undergraduate students to work with leading research groups on cutting edge technology.  It also provides generous support, which usually includes lodging/travel and very attractive stipends.  Application Deadline varies, but are around March 1 (some require US citizenship or permanent residency).

REU at UT Austin Computational Science/Engineering
REU at UT Dallas in  Software Safety
REU at LSU  in Computational Sciences,
REU at  Clemson in Collaborative Data Visualization Applications (application due 3/31/2015)

Webinar: Supercomputing in Plain English

Supercomputing in Plain English (SiPE), Spring 2015
Available live in person and live via videoconferencing

http://www.oscer.ou.edu/education/

Over 500 people have already registered for 2015, bringing our
grand total over the years to over 2000 served, from
50 US states and territories as well as 17 other countries in
Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

(If you're in New Hampshire, Rhode Island or Vermont, we'd
especially love to have you, because we've never had anyone
else participate from your state.)

LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP!

If you don't get registered in time, you're still welcome to
join us, by following the instructions on the webpage, and
also please send e-mail to:

sipe2015@gmail.com

Please feel free to share this with anyone who may be
interested and appropriate.

IF YOU'VE ALREADY REGISTERED, please forward or ignore --
there's no need to re-register.

Tuesdays starting Jan 20 2015, 1:30pm Central Time
(3:30pm Atlantic, 2:30pm Eastern, 12:30pm Mountain,
11:30am Pacific, 9:30am Hawai'i-Aleutian)

Sessions are 1 hour, but please budget 1 1/4 hours, in case
we run long or there are lots of questions.

Live in person: Stephenson Research & Technology Center boardroom,
University of Oklahoma Norman campus

Live via videoconferencing: details to be announced

Registration:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/supercomputing-in-plain-english-spring-2015-registration-14309649547

(You only need to register ONCE for the whole semester,
not for every week.)

We already have over 500 registrations!

So far, the SiPE workshops have reached over 1500 people at
248 institutions, agencies, companies and organizations in
47 US states and territories and 10 other countries:

* 178 academic institutions;
* 29 government agencies;
* 26 private companies;
* 15 not-for-profit organizations.

SiPE is targeted at an audience of not only computer scientists
but especially scientists and engineers, including a mixture of
undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff.

These workshops focus on fundamental issues of High Performance
Computing (HPC) as they relate to Computational and Data-enabled
Science & Engineering (CDS&E), including:

* overview of HPC;
* the storage hierarchy;
* instruction-level parallelism;
* high performance compilers;
* shared memory parallelism (e.g., OpenMP);
* distributed parallelism (e.g., MPI);
* HPC application types and parallel paradigms;
* multicore optimization;
* high throughput computing;
* accelerator computing (e.g., GPUs);
* scientific and I/O libraries;
* scientific visualization.

The key philosophy of the SiPE workshops is that an HPC-based code
should be maintainable, extensible and, most especially, portable
across platforms, and should be sufficiently flexible that it can
adapt to, and adopt, emerging HPC paradigms.

Prerequisite:

1 semester of programming experience and/or coursework in any of
Fortan, C, C++ or Java, recently

Large Spring Enrollment

Although official number won't be known until after the end of the add/drop period (some are on the road, and some are still awaiting for visa), Spring 2015 is set to see one of largest enrollment in our graduate programs. Twenty three graduate students participated in the orientation last evening. Over half of them are incoming computer science graduate students, and most of them will be full time.

With increased enrollment, we will be able to offer more elective courses and develop new programs to keep up with fast paced technology advancement.