The Great Escape is an online international multiplayer coding contest being held for 2 weeks from February 6th starting at 12:00 pm EST to February 20th at 5:00 pm EST.

The Great Escape will be a thrilling multiplayer Artificial Intelligence Battle, where students will have to:

• Program the best bot to escape a maze by trapping their ennemies,
• Have their bot fight against other players’ bots in an arena
• Improve their program as they go along until victory!

Participation is 100% online and free. Over 20 coding languages to choose from. International automated rankings + Leaderboard by University. 10+ sponsoring companies offering jobs and internships. Prizes to win: GoPro 4, iPad Mini, and 25+ t-shirts! All skill levels are encouraged to play: no need to be an A.I. Expert to have fun.

The Great Escape is an online international multiplayer coding contest being held for 2 weeks from February 6th starting at 12:00 pm EST to February 20th at 5:00 pm EST.

The Great Escape will be a thrilling multiplayer Artificial Intelligence Battle, where students will have to:

• Program the best bot to escape a maze by trapping their ennemies,
• Have their bot fight against other players’ bots in an arena
• Improve their program as they go along until victory!

Participation is 100% online and free. Over 20 coding languages to choose from. International automated rankings + Leaderboard by University. 10+ sponsoring companies offering jobs and internships. Prizes to win: GoPro 4, iPad Mini, and 25+ t-shirts! All skill levels are encouraged to play: no need to be an A.I. Expert to have fun.

During the last week, multiple internship positions have been posted to UMBCworks. Check out these new positions today!

Store Management Trainee(9271461)
Kohl's Department Stores - Nationwide, United States

The Store Management Trainee (MIT) Program is the fast track to a career in retail. The MIT Program is a 12 week executive training program designed for those who are looking to get into the field of Retail Management. The training program is designed to give you the experience you need in overall store operations to prepare you for the future.

Spring 2015- Digital Intern - Web Design/Development (9271354)
National Aquarium in Baltimore - Baltimore, Maryland

--Assist with website maintenance
--Complete calendar updates
--Assist with various aspects of email marketing, including research, design and editing
--Responding to daily requests from partner departments
--Join the Digital Marketing team for meetings and special events, and more!

Summer 2015- Archival Collections Appraisal Student Intern (9271419)
Maryland State Archives - Annapolis, Maryland

Interns will engage in a variety of activities related to the management and processing of archival paper and electronic collections. Individual intern assignments will vary, but duties may include handling paper records, creating or updating inventories, labeling records, and electronic file management.

Human Resources – 2015 Emerging Leaders Program – Summer Intern (9271369)
The Nielsen Company -
Cincinnati, Ohio
New York, New York
Schaumburg, Illinois
Tampa, Florida

At Nielsen, information is our business. We deliver solutions to our clients in the form of high-quality information that helps them grow and compete more effectively. The Human Resources Emerging Leaders Program (HR ELP) is a challenging program designed to develop future Nielsen leaders who will continue to make Nielsen one of the best and most competitive companies to work for in the marketing information and media industries.

Summer 2015- i3 Research Program for Undergraduate Students (9271308)
iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3) - Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

The iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3) is an undergraduate research and leadership development program that prepares students from underrepresented populations for graduate study and careers in the information sciences. Only 25 students from across the country are selected each year to become i3 Scholars. Those students undertake a yearlong experience that includes two summer institutes hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences and a research project spanning the year.
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To access these positions, login to your UMBCworks account (via the link in the Jobs & Internships topic in myUMBC) and find details and application instructions as well as hundreds of other job postings!  

Please note you MUST have an approved resume and be released to apply to internships. To schedule an appointment, access our online system in UMBCworks or call 410-455-2216. 

PhD Dissertation Proposal

Design and Validation of Brain Network
Visualization Techniques: A Unified Approach

Guohao Zhang

Time and Place:
8:00-10:00am, 22 Jan 22 2015, ITE325

We propose a unified approach to understand why and how visualization works, motivated by scientists’ difficulties in obtaining insights from increasingly complex data that involves multi-modality brain networks from structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI and fMRI). Brain scientists are in need of visualization approaches to effectively analysis brain MRI data from different modalities. We design a unified theory expanded upon the classical 2D semiotics for the design and evaluation of brain network visualization approaches. Our research is divided to three-steps. First, we define a taxonomy that includes three dimensions: retinal variable, data continuity, and plane. Second, we demonstrated that this theory carries descriptive power in that we can use it to describe existing visualization techniques for brain imaging visualizations. We then propose five empirical studies to understand and evaluate encoding approaches in structure and functional networks accordingly. The first three studies focus on single modality and the last two studies differences in dual-modality multiplex network comparison based on cohort analyses. Using the results derived from the empirical studies, we present a visual analytics approach for brain scientists to explore cohort and individual brain network to let them answer research questions. We use computational methods to derive relationships from two modalities in cohorts of two modalities, and then represent cohort with uncertainty as well as individual ones for brain scientists to study uncertainty in network analysis.

Committee: Drs. Jian Chen (Chair), Penny Rheingans, Konstantinos Kalpakis, Peter Kochunov (UMB), Niklas Elmqvist (UMCP) and Alexander Auchus (UMC)

The Career Center is very excited to share that The Nielsen Company is coming to UMBC to interview students for their intern and full-time emerging leaders programs. Finance intern and full-time positions were just posted today on UMBCworks.  Nielsen is a global leader in media, marketing and consumer intelligence. Take a look at their video found here to learn more.

3.00 GPA required and Permanent work authorization in the U.S. required

Below are the opportunities that are now available to UMBC candidates. Assignments in Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; and Wilton, Connecticut. Competitive salary, plus generous sign-on bonus to defray housing and relocation costs will be given to new hires which is GREAT.

IMPORTANT: To be considered for an on-campus interview for one or more of the positions below, YOU MUST apply via UMBCworks directly. The company will begin reviewing student applications on THIS FRIDAY. Therefore, apply TODAY.  The deadline is January 29th.   

A Cover Letter is recommended by Nielsen. Cover letters can be addressed to:
Recruiting Lead
The Nielsen Company
770 Broadway
New York, New York 10003