Month: September 2014
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hackUMBC '14 concludes
Last weekend, over 170 college and high school students converged upon UMBC for the second hackUMBC hackathon. This free event, spanning 24 continuous hours, brought students together to create, make, or otherwise “hack” together new technology projects, either individually or as a team. As with many hackathons, there was no limit to the type of…
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CS Alumna Claudia Pearce (M.S. '89, Ph.D., '94) is UMBC Alumna of the Year for Engineering and Information Technology
Each year, the UMBC Alumni Association presents awards to honor alumni for their professional and personal achievements and service to the University. The 2014 awards will be presented on Thursday, October 9, 2014, at an awards ceremony in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building on the UMBC campus. This year’s Alumna of the Year for…
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CYBR students participate in cybersecurity wargame
On September 18, students from UMBC’s Graduate Cybersecurity Program joined others from Penn State, Penn State Harrisburg, and the Dickinson College of Law at the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership and Development to participate in a scripted wargame considering the strategic aspects of cybersecurity during the 2014 Intelligence Community Center of Academic…
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Baltimore Code Craftmanship MeetUp, 6:30pm Thr 9/18, Betamore
The Baltimore Code Craftsmanship meetup group will hold its monthly meeting at 6:30pm on Thursday, September 18 at Betamore (1111 Light St.) in Baltimore (map). The meetup is for the students and software developers in the Baltimore area that care about the quality of their work and want to practice and improve their programming skills,…
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CSEE Alum Stephan Sherman unveils new multiplayer game for iPhone 6
UMBC Alumnus and Meyerhof Scholar Stephan Sherman (BS ’00, M8) spoke at Apple’s new product event on Tuesday and described his company’s VainGlory game, which will run on the new iPhones using under iOS 8, taking advantage of Metal graphics API, larger screen and faster processors on the iPhone 6. Stephan is…
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NSA grant supports cyber-challenge prizes
CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno, Cybersecurity GPD and Assistant Director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity, has received an $84K grant from the National Security Agency (NSA) to fund the prizes for student winners at the 2014 Maryland Cyber Challenge finals that will take place at the CyberMaryland 2014 conference in Baltimore on 29 and 30 October.…
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talk: How to program the D-Wave quantum annealing computer, 2:30 Tue 9/9
UMBC Quantum Computation Seminar How to program the D-Wave Quantum Annealing Computer? Omar Shehab 2:30-4:00 pm, Tuesday, 9 September 2014, ITE 325B In this tutorial session, we will give a gentle introduction to the programming model of the D-Wave Quantum Annealing Computer. The implementations of a number of programs will be demonstrated. Mapping of generic…
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Meet the Staff: Olivia Wolfe
Name: Olivia Wolfe Educational Background: Bachelor’s and Master’s degree (Counseling and Personnel Services) from University of Maryland, College Park Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico Current role: As Coordinator of Academic Affairs, Olivia oversees academic services staff of the department, oversees course scheduling for the department, coordinates adjunct instructor and TA/RA hiring, addresses undergraduate and graduate student…
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New Eclipse research cluster for robust, smart hardware systems
The new Eclipse research custer includes three collaborating labs at UMBC that focus on low-level hardware design to data analytics. Current projects include wearable computing, hardware security, and human assisted computer vision. Professor Nilanjan Banerjee’s Mobile, Pervasive, and Sensor System Lab performs research in cyber-physical systems spanning mobile systems, renewable-energy driven systems, and low power…
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Baltimore Tech Super Meetup, 5-8pm Sat 9/13, Betamore, Baltimore
Baltimore has an active technology community comprised of researchers and developers from companies, startups, consultancies and academe. There will be a Super Meetup event Baltimore Innovation Week 2014 that will draw on the more than 30 Baltimore area meetup groups focused on different technologies. The Super Meetup will be held from 5:00pm to 8:00pm on…