http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Wed, 07 May 2008 11:44:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ACM's TechCareers site offers "career-related resources, news and job postings for IT and engineering professions". They recommend that IT professionals and those seeking to become one, should try Branding Yourself With A Blog. "... Certainly personal branding isn’t a new concept, but the future of personal branding could ... http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/05/06/students-brand-yourself-with-a-blog/ This year's International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008) will host a workshop on Social Data on the Web. Submitted papers are due by July 25, 2008. "The 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008) co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) aims ... http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/05/06/social-data-on-the-web-workshop-at-iswc-2008/ Next Monday (3:00pm, May 13), Fabrizio Petrini will visit and give a presentation on Streaming Applications on the Cell B.E. Processor. Here's the abstract: "We increasingly need to process large and complex data volumes to enable near-real-time informed human decisions or automated response actions. Current limitations in I/O and processing ... http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/05/05/petrini-streaming-applications-on-the-cell-be-processor-3pm-513-umbc/ In this week's UMBC ebiquity meeting (10am Tue may 6 in ITE 325), PhD student Wenjia Li will talk about his research on security and MANETs. Guests are always welcome -- just drop in. Here's the title and abstract. Gossip-Based Outlier Detection for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Wenjia Li, University ... http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/05/05/gossip-based-outlier-detection-for-mobile-ad-hoc-networks/ Deadlines for submitting papers, Doctoral Consortium applications and tutorial proposals for the Seventh International Semantic Web Conference are fast approaching. ISWC '08 will be held 26-30 October 2008 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Key upcoming dates include: Research papers: due May 9 (title and abstracts), 16 May (full) Semantic Web ... http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/05/05/int-conf-semantic-web-deadlines-this-week-and-next-iswc-2008/ David Chapman will defend his MS thesis, A General Algorithm for Gridding Earth Sensing Scanning Instruments, at 10:00am Monday May 5 in room 325 ITE. The abstract is below. Gridding in remote sensing must re-project observations from their original coordinate system based on satellite orbit and attitude to a ... http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/05/03/chapman-on-gridding-earth-sensing-scanning-instruments-10am-105-ite-325/ The call for the ISWC 2008 Sixth Semantic Web Challenge and Billion Triples tracks is out. "We invite submissions to the sixth annual Semantic Web Challenge, the premiere event for demonstrating practical progress towards achieving the vision of the Semantic Web. The central idea of the Semantic Web is to ... http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/05/02/cfp-semantic-web-challenge-and-billion-triples-tracks/ The following workshops will be held as part of 2008 international Semantic Web Conference. Watch the 2008 ISWC workshop page for more information, including dates and links to workshop pages. Service Matchmaking and Resource Retrieval in the Semantic Web Terra Cognita 2008 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Matching ... http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/05/02/workshops-selected-for-2008-international-semantic-web-conference-iswc/ Marcella Wilson will defend her dissertation, The Comparison of Online Social Networks in Terms of Structure and Evolution, at 11:15am May 1st in 325b ITE. Here's the abstract. Social network systems on the Internet, such MySpace and LinkedIn, are growing in popularity around the world. The level of such ... http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/04/30/comparison-of-online-social-networks-in-terms-of-structure-and-evolution/ Remember when finding information on the Web was done by navigation using Gopher or Yahoo's directory? I worked and we thought it was pretty good, at least until the search engines came along. Then we realized that search was much better than navigation for most tasks, especially as ... http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/04/30/fonolo-is-google-for-phone-menus/