Category: CSEE
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UMBC team competes in 2013 Final Four of College Chess this weekend
UMBC’s chess team competes in the Final Four of College Chess this weekend for the title of the best college chess tem in the Americas.
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UMBC to host Computer Science for High School workshop, 4-7 August 2013
Google announced awards for the 2013 Computer Science for High School (CS4HS) program and UMBC was again among the sites selected. The program is an initiative sponsored by Google to promote Computer Science and Computational Thinking in high school and middle school curricula. UMBC Professor Marie desJardins put together successful CS4HS workshops in 2011 and 2012 that…
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Tresys Technology Scholarship for UMBC computing students
Tresys Technology, a provider of technology and engineering services for customers with high-security requirements, announced the "Tresys Technology Scholarship" for UMBC students. The merit-based scholarship is intended to support incoming sophomore or junior computer science majors at UMBC with demonstrated financial need and who have obtained or transferred a grade point average of 3.0 or…
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Summer Trusted Infrastructure Workshop for graduate students
The Fourth Trusted Infrastructure Workshop (TIW 2013) will be held at Penn State University in University Park, PA from Sunday afternoon, June 2 to Thursday, June 6. TIW 2013 is a free premier educational meeting for graduate students with a focus on computer systems security research and research that builds on trusted computing foundations. TIW…
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3rd Annual CWIT Spring into Leadership Event, April 11
4/11: The UMBC Center for Women in Technology will hold its 3rd Annual CWIT Spring into Leadership event on Thursday evening, April 11, 2013 in the University Center Ballroom at UMBC. Ms. Tina Kuhn of Northrop Grumman Information Systems will give the keynote talk.
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Council of computing majors to meet 3pm Wed. 3/27, ITE 325b
The UMBC Council of Computing Majors (CCM) will hold a general meeting from 3:00pm to 4:00pm this Wednesday, April 27, in the CSEE Department conference room, ITE 325b. Come discuss service opportunities, CSEE speakers, and upcoming CCM events. Several professors have generously agreed to lecture on tools and topics in computer science. Dates and details…
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CMPE undergraduate townhall meeting, 11:30-1:00 Wed. 4/3, UC Ballroom Lounge
The CSEE Department will hold a CMPE Undergraduate Townhall Meeting on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 from 11:30am to 1:00pm in the University Center Ballroom Lounge. All CMPE majors and other interested students are welcome. We will discuss recent important changes to the CMPE program, course scheduling, current Capstone projects, the BS/MS program, guidance about undergraduate…
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Newspaper's online poll on Internet voting compromised to make a point
Rick Forno, Assistant Director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity, was quoted in an article in the Louisville KY Courier-Journal about a compromised online poll the paper ran about Internet voting. The paper's March 20th poll was prompted by a Kentucky initiative to make voting easier for overseas personnel and asked "Should overseas U.S. military…
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UMBC's Rick Forno on Protecting Your Financial Data From Cyberattacks
As more corporate and personal data moves online, Assistant Director at the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity Richard Forno provides tips on protecting financial information before a cyberattack hits. In this video, Mariko Sanchanta of the Wall Stree Journal Digital Network interviews Dr. Rick Forno on the risks of cyberattacks on banks and other financial insititutions.
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Shafi Goldwasser & Silvio Micali win Turing Award for work on cryptographic security
"Shafi Goldwasser of MIT and the Weizmann Institute of Science and Silvio Micali of MIT were names as the winners of the 2012 ACM A.M. Turing Award. Working together, they pioneered the field of provable security, which laid the mathematical foundations that made modern cryptography possible. By formalizing the concept that cryptographic security had to…