Category: AI

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Alumni startup at bwtech@UMBC earns unique award for AI work with UMBC research team

    Alumni startup RedShred earns unique award for AI work with UMBC research team The artificial intelligence startup RedShred—cofounded by two UMBC alumni and housed in the bwtech@UMBC incubator—has received a rare Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Award from the National Science Foundation to expand in a new direction, in collaboration with UMBC faculty and…

  • MD-AI Meetup holds 1st event at UMBC 6-8pm Wed 10/3, 7th floor library

    MD-AI Meetup holds 1st event at UMBC 6-8pm Wed 10/3, 7th floor library   A new Maryland-based meetup interest group has been established for Artificial Intelligence (MD-AI Meetup) and will have its first meeting at UMBC this coming Wednesday (Oct 3) from 6:00-8:00pm in the 7th floor of the library.  The first meeting will feature…

  • Machine learning and AI for cybersecurity: a technical chat with DISA

    The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab   Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: A Technical Chat with the Defense Information Systems Agency James Curry Lead Engineer–DoD Cyber Security Range Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) 12:00–1:00pm Friday, 28 September 2018, ITE 227, UMBC A broad reaching brief on the scope and scale of the DISA Mission, followed by…

  • Prof. Cynthia Matuszek named one of AI’s 10 to Watch

    Cynthia Matuszek named one of AI’s 10 to Watch  UMBC CSEE Professor Cynthia Matuszek was named as one AI’s 10 to Watch by IEEE Intelligent Systems. The designation is given every two years to a group of “10 young stars who have demonstrated outstanding AI achievements”.  IEEE Intelligent Systems accepts nominations from around the world, which…

  • 2018 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning

    2018 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning The 2018 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL) is a student-run, one-day event on speech, language & machine learning research to be held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County  (UMBC) from 10:00am to 6:00pm on Saturday, May 12.  There is no registration charge…

  • 2018 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning

    2018 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning The 2018 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL) is a student-run, one-day event on speech, language & machine learning research to be held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County  (UMBC) from 10:00am to 6:00pm on Saturday May 12.  There is no registration charge…

  • 🗣 talk: Classifying Malware using Data Compression, 12-1 Fri 4/20, ITE229

    The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Classifying Malware using Data Compression Charles Nicholas, UMBC 12:00–1:00pm Friday, 20 April 2018, ITE 229 Comparing large binary objects can be tricky and expensive. We describe a method for comparing such strings, using ideas form data compression, that is both fast and effective. We present results from experiments applying…

  • 🤖 talk: Where’s my Robot Butler? 1-2pm Friday 4/13, ITE 231

    UMBC ACM Student Chapter Talk Where’s my Robot Butler? Robotics, NLP and Robots in Human Environments Professor Cynthia Matuszek, UMBC 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 13 April 2018, ITE 231, UMBC As robots become more powerful, capable, and autonomous, they are moving from controlled industrial settings to human-centric spaces such as medical environments, workplaces, and homes. As physical…