Month: February 2017
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Prof. Gymama Slaughter on the body as a battery at Baltimore’s Light City festival
How can we begin to use our body as a power source? The same way we use a battery: by harnessing its chemical energy. As part of the annual Baltimore Light City Festival: A Festival of Light, Music and Innovations, Dr. Gymama Slaughter will present her research work on “The body as a battery –…
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UMBC Cyber Dawgs to hold student cybersecurity competition on Saturday, March 11
The UMBC Cyber Dawgs will hold a cybersecurity Capture the Flag competition on Saturday, March 11th from 9am-5pm in the Public Policy building. The event will be a jeopardy-style competition where individual competitors answer questions about aspects of cybersecurity, including network forensics, reverse engineering, reconnaissance, and cryptography. The competition is open to all current UMBC…
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IBM’s Arvind Krishna, Accelerating Technology Disruption: the Cognitive Revolution, 1pm Fri 2/24, UMBC
CSEE Department Distinguished Seminar Accelerating Technology Disruption: The Cognitive Revolution Dr. Arvind Krishna Senior Vice President, Hybrid Cloud and Director, IBM Research 1:00-2:00pm, Friday, 24 February 2017, PAHB 132 Digital disruption is changing the world around us, breaking down traditional barriers to market entry, creating new business models, and leading to new solutions to global challenges.…
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UMBC CSEE alumnus Josiah Dykstra receives PECASE award for cybercrime work
Josiah Dykstra, Ph.D. ‘13, computer science, has received the prominent Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) for his work on digital forensics cloud computing, with applications in tackling cybercrime. While he was a graduate student at UMBC, Dykstra worked full-time at the National Security Agency, where he remains a cybersecurity researcher, but…
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talk: Securing Networks by Detecting Logical Flaws in Protocol Implementations
Securing Networks by Detecting Logical Flaws in Protocol Implementations Dr. Endadul Hoque Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University 12:00pm Wednesday, 22 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC Implementations of network protocols are integral components of various networked computing systems, spanning from Internet-of-Things (IoT) to enormous data centers. Research efforts to defend these implementations by introducing new designs…
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talk: Semantic Approach to Automating Big Data and Cloud, 12pm Mon 2/20
A Semantically Rich Approach to Automating Big Data and Cloud Dr. Karuna Joshi University of Maryland, Baltimore County 12:00pm Monday, 20 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC With the explosion of Big Data and the growth of data science, there is an urgent need to automate the data lifecycle of generation, ingestion, analytics, knowledge extraction, and…
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UMBC Grand Challenge Symposium, 1-2:30 pm Friday 2/17, Library
UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program is designed for students from all majors who are interested in solving important societal problems. The program fosters a vibrant interdisciplinary community to help tackle the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) Grand Challenges, and gives students experiences and skills to create solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of…
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talk: Cybersecurity and Cellular Technology, 6pm 2/23 Shady Grove
UMBC Cybersecurity Program Cyber Talk Cybersecurity and Cellular Technology Joshua Franklin 6:00-8:00pm Thursday, 23 February 2017 The Universities at Shady Grove Building III (Camille Kendall Academic Center) Room 3241 9636 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 The UMBC Cybersecurity Program is proud to bring you Cyber Talk, a new speaker series that highlights special topics in…
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talk: Accountability and Data Privacy in the Life Cycle of Big Data
Towards End-to-End Security and Privacy: Accountability and Data Privacy in the Life Cycle of Big Data Taeho Jung Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology 11:00am Tuesday, 14 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC The advent of big data has given birth to numerous innovative life-enhancing applications, but the big data is often called as a…
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talk: Bayesianism and the Evidence Problem, 4pm 2/15
Philosophy Department Colloquium Bayesianism and the Evidence Problem Lisa Cassell University of Massachusetts/Amherst 4-6:00pm Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 456 Performing Arts & Humanities Bayesianism is a theory that gives us norms for how the degrees of belief we have in certain propositions — our “credences” — ought to hang together. For instance, it tells me…