Category: Computer Science
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talk: Increasing Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, 1:15pm Wed 11/12
Professor Mohamed Younis of UMBC will present a research talk on Increasing Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks at 1:15pm on Wednesday, 12 Nov. 2014 in room 325b in the ITE building at UMBC.
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UMBC SFS Cybercorps Scholarship applications due Nov 17 and Feb 2
In 2012-2017, UMBC will support a total of 22 new Cybersecurity students at the BS, MS, MPS, and PhD levels in computer science and related fields. Each scholarship is for the final two years of study (three years for PhD and combined BS/MS). Each scholarship covers full tuition, fees, travel, books, and an academic year…
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Dr. Olano discusses the Maryland Gaming Industry with the Baltimore Sun
CSEE’S Dr. Marc Olano, Director of the Computer Science Game Development Track and Co-director of the VANGOGH Lab, talked with the Baltimore Sun’s Scott Dance about fluctuations in the local video game industry. In recent years, the local gaming industry has been subject to major upheavals, resulting in the closure of several well-known gaming companies. Fortunately, the…
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CYBR students present @ NCCoE Open House
UMBC CYBR MPS students Zack Rich and Jeff Scheier (pictured) are interns at the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in Rockville, MD. On October 15, 2014, they presented NCCoE use case projects to leading cybersecurity experts from both the private and public domains at the NCCoE’s fall Open House on education and workforce…
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UMBC partners on national cybersecurity research center
UMBC will play a role in strengthening our nation’s cybersecurity infrastructure through a new Federally Funded Research and Development Center announced this week. NIST awarded a contract to operate the center to MITRE, which will partner with the University System of Maryland to carry out the center’s goals. UMBC and the University of Maryland, College…
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hackUMBC '14 concludes
Last weekend, over 170 college and high school students converged upon UMBC for the second hackUMBC hackathon. This free event, spanning 24 continuous hours, brought students together to create, make, or otherwise “hack” together new technology projects, either individually or as a team. As with many hackathons, there was no limit to the type of…
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Baltimore Code Craftmanship MeetUp, 6:30pm Thr 9/18, Betamore
The Baltimore Code Craftsmanship meetup group will hold its monthly meeting at 6:30pm on Thursday, September 18 at Betamore (1111 Light St.) in Baltimore (map). The meetup is for the students and software developers in the Baltimore area that care about the quality of their work and want to practice and improve their programming skills,…
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CSEE Alum Stephan Sherman unveils new multiplayer game for iPhone 6
UMBC Alumnus and Meyerhof Scholar Stephan Sherman (BS ’00, M8) spoke at Apple’s new product event on Tuesday and described his company’s VainGlory game, which will run on the new iPhones using under iOS 8, taking advantage of Metal graphics API, larger screen and faster processors on the iPhone 6. Stephan is…
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NSA grant supports cyber-challenge prizes
CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno, Cybersecurity GPD and Assistant Director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity, has received an $84K grant from the National Security Agency (NSA) to fund the prizes for student winners at the 2014 Maryland Cyber Challenge finals that will take place at the CyberMaryland 2014 conference in Baltimore on 29 and 30 October.…
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New Eclipse research cluster for robust, smart hardware systems
The new Eclipse research custer includes three collaborating labs at UMBC that focus on low-level hardware design to data analytics. Current projects include wearable computing, hardware security, and human assisted computer vision. Professor Nilanjan Banerjee’s Mobile, Pervasive, and Sensor System Lab performs research in cyber-physical systems spanning mobile systems, renewable-energy driven systems, and low power…