Category: Data Science

  • IBM Watson Cloud Academy Workshop, 9-5 May 3

    IBM Cloud Academy Workshop 9am-5pm Friday, May 3, 2019 UMBC will host an all-day IBM Watson Cloud Academy Workshop 9am-5pm on May 3 taught by Prof. Anand Singh of NCSU. All faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend. We also welcome government and industry partners. Register for the free workshop here. The workshop will…

  • talk: Algorithms for Weakly Supervised Denoising of EEG Data, 6:30pm Feb 28

    The February meeting of the Data Works MD Meetup features a talk by UMBC Professor Tim Oates on  Two Algorithms for Weakly Supervised Denoising of EEG Data, 6:30-9pm Thursday, February 28, 2019 at UMBC’s South Campus.  Join the meetup and register to attend this free talk and network with members of the Maryland data science community. …

  • MD-AI Meetup: An AI Enabled Vision of the Future, 6-8pm 2/12, UMBC

    MD AI Meetup: An AI Enabled Vision of the Future The February MD AI meetup will be held at UMBC and features Kathleen Walch from Cognilytica, speaking on An AI Enabled Vision of the Future. The meetup starts at 6:00pm on Tuesday, February 12 in UC 312, UMBC with half an hour of networking time,…

  • talk: Using Deep Learning in Identifying Network Intrusions, 10:30am Mon 2/11, UMBC

      Using Deep Learning in Identifying Network Intrusions Dr. Rajeev Agrawal Information Technology Laboratory US Army Engineer Research and Development Center 10:30-11:30 Monday, February 11, 2019, ITE325 Deep Learning algorithms have been very successful in computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. However, there is a big challenge in applying it in cyber security…

  • Maryland Data Science Conference, Fri. 1/25, UMBC (new date)

    MD Data Science Conference Friday, 25 January, PAH Concert Hall, UMBC Miner & Kasch, a AI and data science consulting firm founded by two UMBC alumni, will hold a one-day Data Science Conference at UMBC on Friday, January 25 in the Linehan Concert Hall of the UMBC Performing Arts & Humanities Building. A limited number…

  • Countering Russian disinformation the Baltic nations’ way

      Countering Russian disinformation the Baltic nations’ way Terry Thompson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County As the new Congress begins, it will soon discuss the comprehensive reports to the U.S. Senate on the disinformation campaign of half-truths, outright fabrications and misleading posts made by agents of the Russian government on social media in the run-up…

  • Maryland Data Science Conference, 1/14 CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER

      MD Data Science Conference Monday, 14 January, UMBC Canceled due to Weather Miner & Kasch has decided to cancel the conference tomorrow due to the snow storm and reschedule it. “While around UMBC the snow seems to be letting up, we have several speakers and attendees from other areas that have raised concerns about…

  • Forbes: Meet the tenacious pioneer pushing innovation to address real world problems

      Forbes: Meet the tenacious pioneer pushing innovation to address real world problems   Forbes has an article on Professor Yelena Yesha, Meet The Tenacious Pioneer Pushing Innovation To Address Real World Problems, in their Cognitive World section, a “knowledge hub and ecosystem for AI transformation”. The piece, which is the first in a two-part…

  • talk: Challenges of Smart Cities Cybersecurity and Privacy with Blockchain, 11am Thr 11/15

    The Challenges of Smart Cities Cybersecurity and Privacy with Blockchain Dr. Jacob Mendel, Tel Aviv University 11:00am Thursday, 15 November 2018, ITE 459, UMBC The last decades have witnessed unprecedented population and urbanization growth with the implication that today, for the first time in human history, more than half of the world’s population lives in…

  • talk: Legal Aspects of Privacy and Data Protection, 12-1 Fri 11/9

    The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Legal Aspects of Privacy and Data Protection Razvan Miutescu Privacy Counsel, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston 12:00–1:00pm Friday, 9 November 2018, ITE 227, UMBC Privacy and data security continue to be topics of interest for organizations of all sizes. In addition to being concerned about cyber crimes and data breaches…