Category: Computer Science
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Rick Forno speaks at the inaugural BSides Charm
Dr. Rick Forno, CSEE’s Cybersecurity Graduate Program Director, was a presenter at the inaugural BSides Charm City technical security conference held at Howard County Community College in Columbia, MD over the weekend of 11-12 April 2015. His talk described what is needed to develop and operate viable high school and college student cyber-competition teams and…
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PhD defense: Increasing Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks 4/13
John Ward will defend his Ph.D. dissertation, Physical- and MAC-Layer Mechanisms for Increasing Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, at 10am Mon, 13 April 2015 in ITE 325b, UMBC
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UMBC CyberDawgs win Mid-Atlantic Regional CCDC Finals
UMBC’s Cyber Defense Team (the ‘CyberDawgs’) took first place at the 2015 National CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC).
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Rick Forno discusses cyber warfare in The Diplomatic Courier
CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno discussed cyber warfare in Ash Hunt’s latest policy paper ‘Cyber Quantifiable Restrictions: The Requirements to Generate Agreed Restrictions on the Use of Cyber Capabilities’ appearing in The Diplomatic Courier. Among other things, Hunt attempts to show that agreed restrictions should not blanket the use of cyber capabilities, but rather the unacceptable…
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talk: Topic Modeling with Structured Priors for Text-Driven Science
Michael Paul from JHU will talk about his research on Topic Modeling with Structured Priors for Text-Driven Science at Noon on Monday, 2 March 2015 in room ITE 325 at UMBC.
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Two technical talks by Amazon senior staff, 4-6:30pm Tue 3/3
Two senior Amazon technical staff will talk on practical topics, including web performance optimization and cloud computing with AWS from 4:00pm to 6:30pm on Tue. March 3 in the UC Ballroom at UMBC.
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PhD proposal: User Identification in Wireless Networks
Christopher Swartz will present his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, User Identification in Wireless Networks, at 9am on Friday, February 27 in ITE325b.
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PhD proposal: Scalable Storage System for Big Scientific Data
Navid Golpayegani will present his dissertation proposal, MLVFS: A Scalable Storage System For Managing Big Scientific Data, at 3:00pm on Tuesday, 24 February 2015, in ITE346 at UMBC
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talk: Understanding Social Spammers, Noon Tue 2/24, ITE325
Xia Hu of Arizona State University will talk on ‘Understanding Social Spammers: A Data Mining Perspective’ at Noon on Tue 2/24 in room ITE325 at UMBC
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Rick Forno discusses cybersecurity on NPR
Last week, health insurance giant Anthem revealed that the personal information of as many as 80 million customers was stolen by hackers. This news came just days before President Obama announced the creation of a new agency to analyze and counter cyber threats. In this hour, we look at Obama’s cybersecurity agenda, and the cyber-security…