Professor Kid Kidd
Principal Special (Full Prof)
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
College of Engineering and Information Technology
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About
Professor Kidd has worked the gamut from being an electronics technician to being a university professor. His research work has included distributed heterogeneous computing, tracking and engineering education. His industrial experience ranges from system design to embedded Internet of Things (IoT), media applications to supercomputing systems. His academic background ranges from stochastic processes through controls, linear electronics through computer architecture, and operating systems through compiler design. He has worked as an electronic technician, mechanic, application programmer, standards representative, researcher, educator and more. He is currently a Professor of the Practice in the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s (UMBC’s) Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department’s Computer Engineering Program. He teaches hands-on courses in computer architecture and embedded systems.Research interests
IoTTeaching interests
Computer Engineering, IoT, Embedded Systems, Computer Organization/ArchitectureEducation
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Ph D, Electrical Engineering / Applied Physics
— University of California, San Diego (1991) The analysis of a filter that rigorously incorporates maneuver and kinematic information for tracking a maneuvering target
- MS, Electrical Engineering — University of California, San Diego (1986)
- BS, Electrical Engineering — University of California, San Diego (1985)
- AAS, Electrical Engineering Technology — Los Angeles Harbor Community College (1980)