Author: Tim Finin
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Dissertation defense: Cross-Layer Techniques for Boosting Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks
Dissertation Defense Announcement Cross-Layer Techniques for Boosting Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks Sami Alsemairi 9:30 Wednesday, 9 November 2016, ITE 346 Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) provide an effective solution for surveillance and data gathering applications in hostile environments where human presence is infeasible, risky or very costly. Examples of these applications include military reconnaissance,…
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talk: Engineering Plaintext Private Information Retrieval Systems, 1pm Fri 4/11, UMBC
The UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Presents Practical Engineering of Plaintext Private Information Retrieval Systems Dr. Russell Fink Chief Engineer, Cyber Operations Branch, Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory 1-2pm Friday, 4 November 2016, ITE 229 Cloud computing has come a long way in the last decade, with many advances in supported platforms, security, and…
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talk: Statistics and Big Data at Google, 5-6pm Thr 11/3, UC310, UMBC
Statistics and Big Data at Google Dr. Tim Hesterberg, Google 5:00-6:00pm Thursday, 3 November 2016, UC 310, UMBC Google lives on data. Search, Ads, YouTube, Maps…they all live on data. Join Senior Quantitative Analyst (and Lady Statistician) Tim Hesterberg, as he shares stories about how we use data, how we’re experimenting to make improvements (yes,…
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Six new SFS cybersecurity scholars to join UMBC in 2017
Six new cybersecurity scholars were inducted into UMBC’s NSF-sponsored Scholarship for Service program in an event held in Germantown on October 20. Three are currently students at Montgomery College and three are from Prince Georges Community College. After they complete their associates degree in spring 2017, they will transfer to UMBC to complete their undergraduate…
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talk: Understanding Ambiguity in Privacy and Security Requirements, 11:15 Fri 11/4 ITE229
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Regulatory Compliance Software Engineering: Understanding Ambiguity in Privacy and Security Requirements Aaron Massey Department of Information Systems University of Maryland, Baltimore County 11:15am-12:30pm Friday, 4 November 2016, ITE 229 Software engineers building software systems in regulated environments must ensure that software requirements accurately represent obligations described in laws and…
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talk: Learning to Predict the Future from Unlabeled Data, 1pm Fri 10/28, ITE229, UMBC
The UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Presents Learning to Predict the Future from Unlabeled Data Hamed Pirsiavash, CSEE Department, UMBC 1-2pm Friday, 28 October 2016, ITE 229 Anticipating actions and objects before they start or appear is a difficult problem in computer vision with several real-world applications. This task is challenging partly because it requires leveraging…
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Online discussion with NGC: Building the Cyber Workforce, 10am Fri Oct 28
Today’s cybersecurity industry is expected to grow by almost $100 billion dollars by 2020. That means that there will be an unprecedented number of jobs to fill to meet the demand and keep to our economic and national security intact. Job postings for cybersecurity positions have increased 74% in the past five years, with a…
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Prof. Anupam Joshi comments on recent DDoS attack on MPT show
CSEE Prof. Anupam Joshi was interviewed on MPT’s Direct Connection about the recent massive distributed denial of service attack that was launched from a botnet from compromised IoT devices. The attack disrupted access to many popular Internet sites, including Twitter, Netflix, Amazon and PayPal. Dr. Joshi discussed the mechanism that used and what can be…
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UMBC’s Anthony Johnson appointed to IEEE Corporate Innovation Award Committee
CSEE Professor Anthony Johnson has been appointed by the IEEE to its Corporate Innovation Award Committee. The IEEE Corporate Innovation Award was established in 1985 to recognize outstanding innovation by an organization in an IEEE field of interest. The recipient must be a corporate, governmental, or academic entity working within the fields of interest to…
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Tim Finin in the shark tank at AFCEA DC’s Cybersecurity Summit
CSEE faculty member Tim Finin was a judge in the Shark Tank event held at the AFCEA-DC’s 7th Annual Cybersecurity Summit on 11 October 2016. The summit is held each year by the DC chapter of AFCEA, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. In the two shark tank session, cyber entrepreneurs presented their ideas…