The campus also has an Information Systems Department which offers BS, BA, MS and Ph.D. degrees, a Visual Arts Department with a new MFA degree program in Digital Image Processing and a EE Department with an active program in communication technology. The UMAB campus includes the state's medical school, law school, dental school and other professional programs in addition to a number of high quality graduate programs. The UMBC CS Department consists of 16 full time research faculty and 24 adjunct faculty. In addition to the completed application form and official college transcripts, applicants are requested to have three letters of recommendation submitted on their behalf. A score on the Graduate Record Examinations General Test is also required.
Details are available with the application form.
Application deadlines are specified by the Graduate School, but the application review process begins by December 15 for admission in the fall semester and by June 15 for admission in the following spring semester. Ph.D., Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge and database systems, natural language processing, logic programming. Dr. Finin is currently working on several problems involving the integration of intelligent information systems. One focus is the development of a language and protocol intended to support interoperability among intelligent agents in a distributed application.