Category: Computer Science
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Getting to Know CSEE at UMBC
Welcome class of 2016! We're so glad you chose to study Computer Science or Computer Engineering at UMBC! Now that you're here, we thought you might like a little tour of our department so that you can make the most of the next four years. We don't promise they'll be easy, but we do promise…
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Baltimoregamer.com, for all your gaming news needs
If you're interested in what's going on in Baltimore's gaming scene, check out Baltimoregamer.com. The site covers local gaming events in the Baltimore and D.C. area, as well as developments in the game industry, and career tips for aspiring video game developers. The site also includes features articles, like its three-part series called "So You…
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2012 Maryland Cyber Challenge competition open for registration
The 2012 2012 Maryland Cyber Challenge (MDC3) is open for registration with qualifying rounds in September and finals 16-17 October at the Cyber-Maryland Conference at the Baltimore Convention Center.
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Computer Science Education Mini-Summit addresses CS Curricula problem
Did you know that Computer Science isn’t a required course in most Maryland High Schools (or colleges for that matter)? For most students, a lack of exposure early on translates to total avoidance once they reach college. For a subject as ubiquitous as computing, it is essential to Maryland's continued success as a technology leader…
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UMD professor pushes for better Computer Science education in high schools
In a recent essay in the Baltimore Sun, James M. Purtilo, a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, outlines the myriad ways that Maryland is failing to support Computer Science education at the High School level. First, Purtilo cites the state's failure to require Computer Science as a…
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New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, an Inspiration for Computer Science Women
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) "Despite the growing numbers of successful women in once male-dominated professions like medicine and law, computer science remains overwhelmingly a boys club." So says a recent NPR article that discusses the arrival of Marissa Mayer as Yahoo's new president and CEO. As one of Google's first employees, Mayer helped develop…
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UMBC receives NSF award to develop new freshman seminar for computing majors
UMBC received a three year award from NSF that provides $154,000 in funding to develop and evaluate an innovative first-year seminar for computing majors aimed at increasing retention, completion, and success.
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MS defense: DNSSEC and PKI
4pm 6/19: Colin Roby will defend his MS thesis on An Operational Study of DNSSEC and its Practical Application in Establishing a Secure PKI framework
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How LinkedIn should have protected your password
In his column in the latest issue of ACM Queue, LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide, security expert Poul-Henning Kamp, explains the flaws in LinkedIn's password management process and the simple steps that can make it much more secure.
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Google's Blockly visual programming environment
Blockly is new web-based, graphical programming language developed by Google. It's graphical in the style of Scratch in that you create a program not as a linguistic object, but by selecting and composing icons that represent control flow constructs, operations, functions, variables and values. It's Web based in that both the program development and program…