Category: Computer Engineering
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talk: Towards Hardware Cybersecurity, 11am Tue 2/20, ITE325, UMBC
Towards Hardware Cybersecurity Professor Houman Homayoun George Mason University 11:00am-12:00pm Tuesday, 20 Febuary 2018, ITE 325, UMBC Electronic system security, trust and reliability has become an increasingly critical area of concern for modern society. Secure hardware systems, platforms, as well as supply chains are critical to industry and government sectors such as national defense, healthcare,…
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Join the UMBC Creative Coders program and teach kids how to code
Join the UMBC Creative Coders program and teach kids how to code The Creative Coders program connects middle school students from Arbutus Middle School with computing students at UMBC. Volunteers will work one-on-one with young students to teach them the fundamentals of computer science through game design. Volunteers may also get this service put on…
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talk: Nonnegative Binary Matrix Factorization on a D-Wave Quantum Annealer, 1:30 2/15
CHMPR Distinguished Lecture Series Nonnegative Binary Matrix Factorization with a D-Wave Quantum Annealer Dr. Daniel O’Malley Los Alamos National Laboratory 1:30 15 February 2018, ITE325, UMBC D-Wave quantum annealers represent a novel computational architecture and have attracted significant interest. Much of this interest has focused on the quantum behavior of D-Wave machines, and…
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Professors Banerjee & Robucci on developing wearable sensors for people with limited mobility
UMBC’s new Public Research for Public Good site features videos that highlight faculty research that provides real impact on the communities they are working with. In one, CSEE Professors Nilanjan Banerjee and Ryan Robucci discuss their research on developing wearable sensors to help people with limited mobility, allowing them to more easily interact with things…
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QuHacks hackathon for high school and middle school students seeks volunteers
Volunteer at hackathon for high school and middle school students Maryland high school and middle school students who are interested in computing will come to UMBC for an all-day hackathon in the UMBC Commons on Saturday, December 9. The organizers are recruiting UMBC students who would like to help with the hackathon between 9:30am and…
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talk: An Introduction to Quantum Cryptography, Noon Friday 11/17, ITE231
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents An Introduction to Quantum Cryptography: Or, How Alice Outwits Eve Sam Lomonaco, CSEE, UMBC 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 17 November 2017, ITE 231, UMBC Alice and Bob wish to communicate without the archvillainess Eve eavesdropping on their conversation. Alice decides to take two college courses, one in cryptography, the other in…
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talk: A Practitioner’s Introduction to Deep Learning, 1pm Fri 11/17
ACM Tech Talk Series A Practitioner’s Introduction to Deep Learning Ashwin Kumar Ganesan, PhD student 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 17 November 2017, ITE325, UMBC In recent years, Deep Neural Networks have been highly successful at performing a number of tasks in computer vision, natural language processing and artificial intelligence in general. The remarkable performance gains have led…
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Volunteer to help in UMBC’s Hour of Code events, Dec 4 and 5
Volunteer to help in UMBC’s Hour of Code events, Dec 4 and 5 Hour of Code is a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science using a one-hour coding activity. The one hour coding activity is designed to show that anyone can learn the basics of coding, and to create a more inclusive computer science community.…
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IEEE Fall 2017 Arduino Workshop and Halloween Social, 5-7 Fri 10/27
IEEE Fall 2017 Arduino Workshop and Halloween Social, 5-7 Fri 10/27 The UMBC Student Branch of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) will host a Halloween Social at 5-7:00pm Friday, 27 October 2017 in ITE 233. This is a fun event where attendees can build and take home electronic Halloween decorations. The Halloween Workshop…
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Gymama Slaughter: The Art of Powering Implantable Electronics
The Art of Powering Implantable Electronics UMBC professor Gymama Slaughter give a short talk at the Grit-X event on her recent research on powering implantable devices for medical applications. The number of smart implantable devices is on the rise, especially as we approach the ramping up of the “internet of things.” A key challenge for…