Category: CSEE

  • CYBERInnovation briefing on cybersecurity mergers and acquisitions

    9m Fri 11/9: The Cyber Incubator at bwtech@UMBC will host a third CYBERInnovation Briefing on Friday, 9 November 2012 in the RWD Building of UMBC’s Research Park.

  • UMBC Cyberdawgs place 2nd at MDC3

    The UMBC Cyberdawgs triumphed at the Maryland Cyber Challenge & Conference (MDC3) yesterday. The team placed second at the MDC3 finals, held Wednesday at the Baltimore Convention Center. This is the first year that UMBC’s Cyberdawgs have placed in MDC3. In its second year, it is already the state’s biggest Cybersecurity battle.   The UMBC…

  • Northrop Grumman Foundation and UMBC announce UMBC Cyber Scholars Program

    UMBC is partnering with the Northrop Grumman Foundation to launch the UMBC Cyber Scholars Program. Funded by a generous $1 million grant from the Northrop Grumman Foundation, and facilitated by the new UMBC Center for Cybersecurity and the UMBC Center for Women in Technology, the scholarship program is slated to launch this January, according to…

  • Introducing the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity

    This morning, UMBC President Dr. Freeman Hrabowski announced the creation of the new UMBC Center for Cybersecurity. The aim of the center is to provide both Maryland and the nation with academic and research leadership, collaboration, innovation, and outreach in this critical discipline by streamlining UMBC's academic, research, workforce development, and technology incubation activities to…

  • CMPE Undergraduate Townhall Meeting, 10/19, 11:30

      A CMPE Undergraduate Townhall Meeting will be held this Friday October, 19th from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM in ITE 459. Please let your instructor in any undergraduate class know if you will be attending by Tues October,16th. We will be discussing course scheduling, BS/MS program, faculty research areas, undergraduate student participation in research…

  • talk: Energy Conservation in Biometric Algorithms

    1pm Fri 10/19: Robert Schultz will talk about his research on Energy Conservation in Biometric Algorithms at 1:00pm on Friday, October 19, 2012 in room 227 of the ITE building at UMBC.

  • MDC3 update: UMBC teams make it past second qualifier round

    *UPDATE* Four out of the five UMBC teams who competed in the Maryland Cyber Challenge & Competition's (MDC3) second qualification round this weekend have made it through to the finals. These teams will compete at MDC3 2012 on October 17 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Congratulations to all five UMBC teams who made it past…

  • ACM Student Chapter hosts CSEE welcome back picnic

    The UMBC ACM Student Chapter invites CSEE students, staff and faculty to the third annual Welcome Back Picnic. Join us this coming Wednesday, 10 October 2012, between 11:30 am and 1:30pm in the Atrium of the Engineering Building for lunch and to meet new and returning students. The picnic is sponsored by the CSEE Department…

  • Computer Science Mini-Summit reveals trouble with high school CS curricula

    Filling the Black Hole On August 8, 2012, Computer Education for the 21st Century’s Computer Science Education Mini-Summit revealed the problem with high school Computer Science curricula, and, more importantly, what’s being done to fix it. Photos: Shelby Clarke “High School is a black hole for most students with respect to Computer Science,” says Jan…

  • CS alumna Stephanie Hill ('86) to be honored at UMBC's Outstanding Alumni of the Year Awards

    Computer Science alumna (’86) Stephanie C. Hill will be honored at this year’s Outstanding Alumni of the Year Awards on October 11, 7:30 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Hill is the president of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions-Civil division. In May, she submitted a guest post to the Washington post entitled…