Author: Tim Finin
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Tim Finin named ACM fellow for contributions to knowledge sharing
Prof. Tim Finin named ACM Fellow for contributions to knowledge sharing UMBC’s Tim Finin, professor of computer science and electrical engineering (CSEE), has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a distinctive honor granted to less than one percent of all ACM members. ACM fellows are selected based on their work…
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Maryland Data Science Conference, 1/14 CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
MD Data Science Conference Monday, 14 January, UMBC Canceled due to Weather Miner & Kasch has decided to cancel the conference tomorrow due to the snow storm and reschedule it. “While around UMBC the snow seems to be letting up, we have several speakers and attendees from other areas that have raised concerns about…
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Workshop on Usable Security, 10-4 Tue 12/18
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Workshop on Usable Security Nikola K. Blanchard 10am-4pm, Tuesday, 18 December, 2018, ITE 228, UMBC We invite people interested in cybersecurity to join us for research conversations with Nikola Blanchard, an expert in usable security. Visitors are welcome to participate in any or all of the workshop. How do…
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Forbes: Meet the tenacious pioneer pushing innovation to address real world problems
Forbes: Meet the tenacious pioneer pushing innovation to address real world problems Forbes has an article on Professor Yelena Yesha, Meet The Tenacious Pioneer Pushing Innovation To Address Real World Problems, in their Cognitive World section, a “knowledge hub and ecosystem for AI transformation”. The piece, which is the first in a two-part…
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UMBC Hour of Code events, 10am-1pm Dec 5 & 6, ENGR Atrium
UMBC Hour of Code events This week on Wednesday and Thursday from 10:00am – 1:00pm, the UMBC Computer Science Education Club will host Hour of Code events in the Engineering Building Atrium. Hour of Code is an annual campaign that is part of Computer Science Education Week with the goal of expanding access to computer science in…
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talk: The Web PKI in Theory and Malpractice, Prof. Bruce Maggs, 11am Fri 12/7, ITE325
Distinguished Departmental Seminar The Web PKI in Theory and Malpractice Dr. Bruce Maggs, Duke University 11:00am Friday, 7 December 2018, ITE325b The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for the web was designed to help thwart “phishing” attacks by providing a mechanism for browsers to authenticate web sites, and also to help prevent the disclosure…
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Game Development Workshop, 12-1pm Fri 12/7
The mobile game Deliverance by UMBC student Paul Tschirgi ’15, visual arts. Game Development Workshop 12-1:00pm Friday, 7 December 2018, ENGR 002 Join HackUMBC and CWIT for a Game Development Workshop, facilitated by Prof. Marc Olano. This workshop will focus on various facets of research and practice in the games industry, the kinds…
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UMBC CSEE alumnus receives NSF support for specialty fiber research
UMBC CSEE alumnus receives NSF support for specialty fiber research UMBC alumnus Dr. Jonathan Hu (Ph.D., electrical engineering, ’08) was recently awarded a three-year grant by National Science Foundation to develop new techniques using of chalcogenide glass fiber devices to transform mid-infrared sensor technologies that detect hazardous aerosol particles in the air. Dr. Hu is…
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UMBC CS & CE tenured/tenure track faculty positions for 2019
CSEE Professor Tinoosh Mohsenin in her laboratory Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in CS and CE Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) UMBC’s Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering invites applications for multiple, open rank, tenured/tenure-track positions in Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) to begin…
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talk: Challenges of Smart Cities Cybersecurity and Privacy with Blockchain, 11am Thr 11/15
The Challenges of Smart Cities Cybersecurity and Privacy with Blockchain Dr. Jacob Mendel, Tel Aviv University 11:00am Thursday, 15 November 2018, ITE 459, UMBC The last decades have witnessed unprecedented population and urbanization growth with the implication that today, for the first time in human history, more than half of the world’s population lives in…