Category: CSEE
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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…
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Flame spy malware infiltrating Middle East computers
Russia-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky Labs has described a new cyber attack toolkit dubbed Flame (Worm.Win32.Flame) which they describe as "what might be the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet." Their analysis suggests that Flame is a state-supported effort rather than one created by hacktivists or cybercriminals. "Flame shares many characteristics with notorious cyber weapons Duqu and Stuxnet:…
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MS defense: Numerical Integration Techniques for Volume Rendering
10am 5/7: Preeti Bindu defends his MS thesis on Numerical Integration Techniques for Volume Rendering at 10:00am on Monday, 7 May 2012 in room ITE 352, UMBC.
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talk: Research vs. Development: Building A Career in the Modern Tech Industry
11:30 Fri 5/4: Christopher Morris will talk on “Research vs. Development: Building A Career in the Modern Tech Industry” at 11:30am on Friday May 4 in room ITE 237 at UMBC.
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Smithsonian Explores The Art of Video Games
photo courtesy Nintendo What do The Legend of Zelda, Halo 2, and Super Mario World have in common? They're all featured video games in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's latest exhibition The Art of Video Games. The exhibition–which celebrates 40 years of video game history–takes a look at 80 video games that pushed the artistic…
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MS Defense: Chandler on Efficient Network on Chip for a Low-Power, Low-Area Homogeneous Many-Core DSP Platform
10:30am 4/30: James Chandler will defend his MS thesis on “An Efficient Network on Chip (NoC) for a Low-Power, Low-Area Homogeneous Many-Core DSP Platform” at 10:30am Monday, 30 April 30 2012 in room ITE 325b at UMBC.
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MS Defense: Shamit Patel on a Working Theory of the Learning Rule for Dendritic Integration
4pm Mon 4/23:Shamit Patel will defend his MS thesis “Towards Implementation of a Pattern Recognition System based on a Working Theory of the Learning Rule for Dendritic Integration” at 4:00pm on Monday 23 April 2012 in room ITE 346 at UMBC. The public is welcome.
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PhD defense: DiffServ Assured Forwarded and Robust Header Compression: Performance Analysis
12:30pm Mon 4/23:: Houcheng Lee will defend his Ph.D. dissertation on ‘DiffServ Assured Forwarded and Robust Header Compression: Performance Analysis’ at 12:30pm Monday, APril 23 in room ITE 201b, UMBC.