Category: Computer Science
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Rick Forno speaks @ Schmoocon '15
CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno was a panelist for Schmoocon 2015’s closing plenary session on January 18 in Washington, DC. The session, entitled “Get Off My Lawn: Examining Change through the Eyes of The Old Guard” brought together four longtime security practitioners to discuss in a free-flowing (if not somewhat curmudgeonly) manner the state of Internet…
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talk: Measuring Visual Perceptions of Security, 10am Fri 1/16, UMBC
Professor Adam J. Aviv of the United States Naval Academy will give a talk on ‘Measuring Visual Perceptions of Security’ at 10am on Fri. Jan 16 in the UMBC Information Systems Dept., room 459 in the ITE building.
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Internship with educational nonprofit developing game
Innovate Our World, an Ellicott City, Maryland educational nonprofit, is seeking one or more avid, experienced gamers who can help us on the business side to bring our new Moon game from tech demo status to a successful launch on Steam. The upcoming 8th Continent game will give players a number of entertaining scenarios racing,…
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PhD defense: Varish Mulwad — Inferring the Semantics of Tables
Dissertation Defense TABEL — A Domain Independent and Extensible Framework for Inferring the Semantics of Tables Varish Vyankatesh Mulwad 8:00am Thursday, 8 January 2015, ITE325b Tables are an integral part of documents, reports and Web pages in many scientific and technical domains, compactly encoding important information that can be difficult to express in text. Table-like structures…
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MS defense: Impaired Driving Detection Using Multiple Textile & Inertial Sensors
Tsu An Chen will defend his MS Thesis, distratto: Real-time Impaired Driving Detection Using Multiple Textile and Inertial Sensors, at 1:00pm on 23 December 2014 in room 341 of the ITE building at UMBC.
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CSEE Faculty Involved With NSF's CS10K Teacher Training Project
UMBC Professor Marie desJardins is collaborating with Maryland educators and researchers in an NSF-funded CS10K Teacher Training Project that seeks to change how computer science is taught in high schools.
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Marie desJardins Collaborates with Howard County Parents and Teachers for HowGirlsCode
CSEE’s Marie desJardins recently collaborated with a group of Howard County parents and teachers to create HowGirlsCode, an educational program that “educates and inspires young girls to pursue computer related activities, courses, and careers.” The program–originally called Computer Mania Club–is based out of Fulton Elementary School. Over the course of ten weeks, students meet for weekly two-hour sessions, working…
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Dr. Rick Forno discusses infrastructure security with SIGNAL magazine
In the December 2014 issue of AFCEA’s SIGNAL Magazine, CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno comments on the likelihood of a destructive cyberattack on critical American infrastructure. He was one of several experts discussing US Cyber Command’s worry about such potential incidents and how it might respond. He believes a major cyber attack against critical infrastructure is…
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PhD Proposal: Learning Representation and Modeling Time Series
UMBC PhD student Zhiguang Wang will present his dissertation proposal, Learning Representation and Modeling Time Series, at 10:00am on Friday, December 12, 2015 in room 325b of the ITE Building.
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Daily Record profiles UMBC's cybersecurity education & training
UMBC’s Cybersecurity Graduate Program Director Dr. Rick Forno and Homer Minnick, Director of UMBC Training Centers’ Cyber Academy, were featured in a recent Daily Record article examining how local universities support the cybersecurity education and training needs of corporate, military, and intelligence employers. More information: UMBC’s Graduate Cybersecurity Program UMBC Training Centers Cyber Academy