Author: Tim Finin
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IBM Watson Cloud Academy Workshop, 9-5 May 3
IBM Cloud Academy Workshop 9am-5pm Friday, May 3, 2019 UMBC will host an all-day IBM Watson Cloud Academy Workshop 9am-5pm on May 3 taught by Prof. Anand Singh of NCSU. All faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend. We also welcome government and industry partners. Register for the free workshop here. The workshop will…
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talk: IPv6 and its Security Issues, 5:30 Mon. 4/22
IPv6 and its Security Issues Neal Ziring, National Security Agency 5:30-6:45 Monday 22 April 2019, Math/Psych 101 CMSC 626 Guest Lecture — all are welcome to attend In this talk, we will introduce the basics of IPv6 and some of the security issues associated with it. Specifically, we discuss the motivations, history and adoption of…
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Post-Bac Certificate in Digital Forensics
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Professional Studies: Digital Forensics UMBC’s cybersecurity graduate program has added a new 12-credit post-baccalaureate certificate in professional studies focused on digital forensics. The Digital Forensics certificate program is intended for early and mid-career IT and law- enforcement professionals who want to learn basic and advanced concepts and develop skills in the field…
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CSEE at Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day
CSEE students at UMBC’s 23nd Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day Congratulations to the 49 undergraduate majors from our computer engineering and computer science programs who are presenting their research at the 23nd Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day on Wednesday, 24 April 2019. Devon Adams | Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Development…
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Meet Your Professor: Dr. Cynthia Matuszek, 12-1 Mon 4/15, ITE231
Meet Your Professor: Dr. Cynthia Matuszek On April 15th, come join the Computer Science Education Club for the third installment of its Spring 2019 Meet Your Professor series featuring Dr. Cynthia Matuszek. The Meet Your Professor events provide students with the opportunity to learn more about their professors, including how they achieved their position, what…
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talk: Why are memory-corruption bugs still a thing?, 10:30am Mon 4/8, ITE325
Why are memory-corruption bugs still a thing? The challenges of securing software at an assembly level Doug BrittonCTO, RunSafe Security Inc. 10:30-11:30 Monday, 8 April 2019, ITE346 Methods to chip away at the danger of memory-corruption bugs have been available for some time. Why has the going-price of memory-corruption-based exploits not spiked? If the methods…
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Masters of Professional Studies open house, Sat. April 6
Masters of Professional Studies open house, Sat. April 6 The Spring Open House for UMBC’s graduate Professional Programs, including cybersecurity and data science, takes place 9:30-11:30am on Saturday, April 6th on the first floor of PAHB. Students interested in exploring these graduate programs (degrees and/or certificates) are encouraged to register and attend. Current CSEE majors…
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SFS cyberdefense scholarship applications due April 15
SFS cyberdefense scholarship applications due Noon Monday, April 15 The next application deadline for SFS cyberdefense scholarships at UMBC is 12:00 noon Monday, 15 April 2019, for possible scholarships beginning in the fall of 2019. See the Center for Information Security and Assurance site for details and application forms. These major scholarships include tuition, generous…
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talk: Learning to Ground Instructions to Plans, 2:30 Thr 3/21, ITE346
Learning to Ground Natural Language Instructions to Plans Nakul Gopalan, Brown University 2:30-3:30pm Thursday, 21 March 2019, ITE 346, UMBC In order to easily and efficiently collaborate with humans, robots must learn to complete tasks specified using natural language. Natural language provides an intuitive interface for a layperson to interact with a robot without the…
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Meet Your Professor: Dr. Frank Ferraro, 12-1 Mon 3/25, ITE 239
Prof. Ferraro’s teaching and research areas include AI, language understanding and machine learning Meet Your Professor: Dr. Frank Ferraro Find out about Machine Learning and NLP classes 2:00-1:00 Monday, 25 March 2019, ITE 239 Next Monday, March 25th, join the Computer Science Education Club for its second installment of the “Meet Your Professor” Spring 2019…