Category: Computer Science
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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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talk: Results of the 2018 SFS Research Study at UMBC, 12pm Fri 2/9, ITE228
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Results from the January 2018 SFS Research Study at UMBC Enis Golaszewski Department of Information Systems University of Maryland, Baltimore County 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 9 February 2018, ITE 228 (or nearby) January 22-26, 2018, UMBC SFS scholars worked collaboratively to analyze the security of a targeted aspect of the UMBC computer system. The…
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Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft
Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft Visiting Assistant Professor Jennifer Sleeman (Ph.D. ’17) has been awarded a grant from Microsoft as part of its ‘AI for Earth’ program. Dr. Sleeman will use the grant to continue her research on developing algorithms to model how scientific disciplines such as climate change evolve and…
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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: Brief Introduction to Creative AI Applications and Common Network Architectures, 1pm Fri 12/1
ACM Student Chapter A Brief Introduction to Creative AI Applications and Common Network Architectures Hang Gao, Ph.D. student, UMBC 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 1 December 2017, ITE 217, UMBC Recent advance and success in artificial intelligence technologies, e.g., deep learning, has drawn heavy investment from both universities and industries, leading to the emergence of many applications 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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talk: Ferraro on Understanding What We Read and Share, 1pm Fri 11/10, ITE325, UMBC
ACM Faculty Talk Series Understanding What We Read and Share: Event Processing from Text and Images Dr. Frank Ferraro, Assistant Professor, CSEE 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 10 November 2017, ITE 325, UMBC A goal of natural language processing (NLP) is to design machines with human-like communication and language understanding skills. NLP systems able to represent knowledge…