Month: February 2012
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talk: Building and Testing Distributed Systems
1pm Fri 3/2: Dr. Charles Killian of Purdue University will talk about his research on Building and Testing Distributed Systems at 1:00pm on Friday, 2 March 2012 in room ITE325 at UMBC.
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In the News: Forno on cloud security
Military personnel are facing an increasing security threat posed by their smart phones and other mobile devices, argues an article on DefenseSystems.com. While the potential of mobile devices to leak personal secrets has been a cause for concern for all, the issue has the potential to be devestating for soldiers who could unwittingly leak crucial…
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CSEE Professor Dr. Tulay Adali Named IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer
Congratulations to CSEE Professor Tulay Adali, who has been named a 2012 IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer. Nominated by the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee, Dr. Adali is one of only five Distinguished Lecturers appointed this year. The position commits Dr. Adali to travel around to world to present her current research,…
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talk: Spectrum Wars: LightSquared vs. GPS, 11:30am Fri 2/2
11:30 Fri 3/2: UMBC Professor Chuck LaBerge talks about the problems and controversies surrounding spectrum utilization between GPS and wireless communication.
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4th Annual Global Game Jam Returns to UMBC
Game enthusiasts of all stripes hunkered behind computer screens in the UMBC GAIM Lab for the 4th annual Global Game Jam—a fast-paced weekend where teams around the world conceive and creative video games around a common theme. The three-day event, which took place Friday, January 27th through the 29th, drew nearly forty participants ranging from…
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Google Android Camp program
Google is running an Android Camp this summer where 30 selected students will attend an all-expense-paid program at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, July 22-28. The camp will include an interactive and collaborative curriculum focusing on a practical introduction to developing applications for Android and will explore the concepts behind Android, the framework for…
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Google announces plans for digital glasses
By the end of 2012, Google plans to unveil their latest addition to the tech world: a pair of android-based digital glasses, reports the New York Times. With a built in camera, the glasses will monitor the wearer’s surroundings and present them with relevant information about nearby businesses, or information about friends who might be…
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talk: Free-Space-Optical Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
1pm Mon 2/27: Professor Murat Yuksel of UNR will talk about his research on Free-Space-Optical Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks at 1:00pm on 27 February 2012 in ITE 325 at UMBC. Mobile ad-hoc communication is starting to find real-world applications beyond its military origins, in areas such as vehicular communications and delay tolerant networking. As the RF…
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Stripe capture the flag wargame
Stripe, a San Francisco startup with an online-payment system, is hosting a simple online cybersecurity capture the flag (CTF) challenge. See their blog post for the details. “The hardest part of writing secure code is learning to think like an attacker. For example, every programmer is told to watch out for SQL injections, but it’s…
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talk and demo: Brain-Computer Interface Technologies
Dr. Kaleb McDowell of the Army Research Laboratory will talk about Brain-Computer Interface Technologies in the Coming Decades and give a demonstration from 11:30-12:30 on Friday, 24 February 2012 in ITE 227 at UMBC.