Category: CSEE
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4th Annual Global Game Jam Returns to UMBC
Game enthusiasts of all stripes hunkered behind computer screens in the UMBC GAIM Lab for the 4th annual Global Game Jam—a fast-paced weekend where teams around the world conceive and creative video games around a common theme. The three-day event, which took place Friday, January 27th through the 29th, drew nearly forty participants ranging from…
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Stripe capture the flag wargame
Stripe, a San Francisco startup with an online-payment system, is hosting a simple online cybersecurity capture the flag (CTF) challenge. See their blog post for the details. “The hardest part of writing secure code is learning to think like an attacker. For example, every programmer is told to watch out for SQL injections, but it’s…
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talk and demo: Brain-Computer Interface Technologies
Dr. Kaleb McDowell of the Army Research Laboratory will talk about Brain-Computer Interface Technologies in the Coming Decades and give a demonstration from 11:30-12:30 on Friday, 24 February 2012 in ITE 227 at UMBC.
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talk: Physical Layer Wireless Network Modeling and Simulation
EE Graduate Seminar Physical Layer Wireless Network Modeling and Simulation and my Technical Publishing Experience Jon R. Ward EE PhD Student, UMBC and the Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory 11:30 – 12:45, Friday, 17 February 2012, ITE 237 Jon Ward, and coauthors Jack Burbank and Bill Kasch, recently wrote a book for IEEE Press/Wiley entitled…
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talk: Self-Powered In-Vitro Biosensing Microsystem
A Self-Powered In-Vitro Biosensing Microsystem Dr. Gymama Slaughter Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County 11:30am-12:45pm Friday, 10 February 2012, ITE 237 Recent studies on biofuel cells have shown that energy can be harvested from biological compounds. Because of the recent biofuel cell discoveries, it possible to use inertial power scavenging design…
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2012 Google Summer of Code program announced
If you have good programming skills and are looking for an interesting alternative to the usual summer internship, you might check out the Google Summer of Code program. It pays student developers $5000 stipends to write code for various open source projects over the summer. Over the past seven years, it's brought together over 6,000…
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Using data visualization techniques to support digital forensics
UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Research Meeting Using data visualization techniques to support digital forensics Tim Leschke 11:00am-12:15pm, Friday, Feb 3, 2012 ITE Room 228 Digital forensic examiners explore large datasets in search of evidence of a crime. In order to keep pace with the growing amount of data that is subject to a forensic examination,…
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Streaming video from UMBC Global Game Jam
A group of nearly 40 participants assembled yesterday afternoon at the UMBC 2012 Global Game Jam site. The Global Game Jam is an annual event where small teams design and create computer games over the course of one weekend. The teams will upload their final games to a central site by 3:00pm EST Sunday. Here’s…
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ACM Queue programming challenge
If you’re at loose ends for the semester break and want to sharpen your programming slils, you might try competing in the ACM Queue Magazine online programming competition. You will program a player that will compete with others in the game of Coercion. The competition opens January 15 and closes at midnight GMT on February…
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Cyber Challenge Hones Students’ Cyber Skills
Tyler Campbell, Nick Ducq, Ryan King, Andrew Nguyen and Tim Spillman walked out of the Baltimore Convention Center elated. Their team, the Sherwood Cyber Warriors, had just won the high school division of the inaugural Maryland Cyber Challenge. Their success netted them each a $5,000 scholarship from the National Security Agency. The entire experience was…