Category: CSEE
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Event: Wanted, One Million IT Security Specialists by 2018
Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to join CWIT and STEMRules for a lunch event to hear from and network with diverse professionals from across the cybersecurity industry. Wanted: One Million IT Security Specialists by 2018 You Could be One of Them 12-1:30pm Friday, 2 December 2016 Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery (1st floor) Lunch…
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talk: Genetic ancestry predicts striatal dopamine D2 receptors, 1pm Dec 2, ITE229
UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Genetic ancestry predicts striatal dopamine D2 receptors Dr. Corinde Wiers National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD 1-2pm Friday, 2 December 2016, ITE 229, UMBC Genetic ancestry was recently found to be associated with cortical geometry, cortical surface, and total brain volume in humans. Despite ethnic differences in allele…
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talk: Dr. Phyllis Schneck (DHS) on The Need for Speed in Cybersecurity
CHMPR Distinguished Lecturers Series The Need for Speed Dr. Phyllis A. Schneck Deputy Under Secretary of Cybersecurity Department of Homeland Security 3:30pm Thursday, 1 December 2016, UC 310 3:00pm Coffee, tea, and cookies As computers get faster, they change the world. Processors get smaller, the number of devices with processors gets bigger, and the amount…
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UMBC Hour of Code, 11-2 Dec 7-8, Main Street
The CS Education student org, with support from the CS Matters in Maryland CS education project, is planning UMBC’s first-ever Hour of Code event. Hour of Code is an initiative that organizes hands-on learning experiences for students of all ages during CS Education Week (December 5-11, 2016, coinciding with Admiral Grace Hopper’s birthday). UMBC’s Hour…
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PhD defense: Deep Neural Networks in Real-Time Embedded Systems
PhD Dissertation Defense Deploying Deep Neural Networks in Real-Time Embedded Systems Adam Page 10:00am Monday, 21 November 2016, ITE 325b Deep neural networks have been shown to outperform prior state-of-the-art solutions that rely heavily on hand-engineered features coupled with simple classification techniques. In addition to achieving several orders of magnitude improvement, they offer a number…
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talk: Mobile Security Architectures, Threats & Mitigation, 6-8pm Tue 11/15
Mobile Security Architectures, Threats and Mitigation Joshua Franklin, NIST 6:00-8:00pm Tuesday, 15 November 2016 Building III Room 2226, UMBC@Universities at Shady Grove directions Cellular technology plays an increasingly large role in society as it has become the primary portal to the internet for a large segment of the population. One of the main drivers making…
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Dissertation defense: Cross-Layer Techniques for Boosting Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks
Dissertation Defense Announcement Cross-Layer Techniques for Boosting Base-Station Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks Sami Alsemairi 9:30 Wednesday, 9 November 2016, ITE 346 Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) provide an effective solution for surveillance and data gathering applications in hostile environments where human presence is infeasible, risky or very costly. Examples of these applications include military reconnaissance,…
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talk: Engineering Plaintext Private Information Retrieval Systems, 1pm Fri 4/11, UMBC
The UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Presents Practical Engineering of Plaintext Private Information Retrieval Systems Dr. Russell Fink Chief Engineer, Cyber Operations Branch, Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory 1-2pm Friday, 4 November 2016, ITE 229 Cloud computing has come a long way in the last decade, with many advances in supported platforms, security, and…
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talk: Statistics and Big Data at Google, 5-6pm Thr 11/3, UC310, UMBC
Statistics and Big Data at Google Dr. Tim Hesterberg, Google 5:00-6:00pm Thursday, 3 November 2016, UC 310, UMBC Google lives on data. Search, Ads, YouTube, Maps…they all live on data. Join Senior Quantitative Analyst (and Lady Statistician) Tim Hesterberg, as he shares stories about how we use data, how we’re experimenting to make improvements (yes,…
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Six new SFS cybersecurity scholars to join UMBC in 2017
Six new cybersecurity scholars were inducted into UMBC’s NSF-sponsored Scholarship for Service program in an event held in Germantown on October 20. Three are currently students at Montgomery College and three are from Prince Georges Community College. After they complete their associates degree in spring 2017, they will transfer to UMBC to complete their undergraduate…