Category: Events

  • 🗣️ talk: Challenges and pitfalls in big data analysis

    CHMPR Distinguished Lecture Challenges and pitfalls in big data analysis Yoav Benjamini, Tel Aviv University 3:30-5:00 Thursday, 12 April 2018, ITE 325b, UMBC I shall warn about the pitfalls resulting from the false assurance that “we have all data at hand”, and discuss the challenges that are not commonly recognised such as the validity and…

  • 🤝Women Data Scientists in Baltimore Meetup: Get started in Data Science, 3/31

    By Fourandsixty (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons The Women Data Scientists in Baltimore Meetup will hold its first meeting this month, featuring a talk by Patty Stanton of the Social Security Administration on how to get started in the field of data science. Men are also welcome at this event. More information…

  • talk: desJardins on Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains, 1pm fri 3/8

    UMBC ACM Student Chapter Planning and Learning in Complex Stochastic Domains: AMDPs, Option Discovery, Learning Transfer, Language Learning, and More Dr. Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1-2pm Friday, March 9th, 2018, ITE 456, UMBC Robots acting in human-scale environments must plan under uncertainty in large state–action spaces and face constantly changing reward functions…

  • UMBC Cyber Dawgs Capture The Flag Cybersecurity Competition, Sunday March 11

    UMBC Cyber Dawgs Capture The Flag Cybersecurity Competition The national champion UMBC Cyber Dawgs will hold the second annual computer security Capture The Flag (CTF) competition on Sunday, March 11th from 11am-7pm in the UC Ballroom. This CTF event is a Jeopardy-style competition where teams of four people use their laptops to discover answers to…

  • talk: Semi-supervised Learning for Visual Recognition, 1pm Fri 2/23, ITE325, UMBC

    ACM Faculty Talk Series Semi-supervised Learning for Visual Recognition Dr. Hamed Pirsiavash, Assistant Professor, CSEE 1:00-2:00pm Friday, February 23, 2018, ITE 325, UMBC We are interested in learning representations (features) that are discriminative for semantic image understanding tasks such as object classification, detection, and segmentation in images. A common approach to obtain such features is…

  • UMBC Giving Day #BlackandGoldRush, February 28

    On UMBC Giving Day, alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends will join the #BlackandGoldRush by giving to their favorite UMBC causes, and by inspiring others to give. Throughout this marathon day of giving, participants will have chances to help unlock giving challenges to drive additional support for areas they want to help. Your gift will…

  • talk: Towards Hardware Cybersecurity, 11am Tue 2/20, ITE325, UMBC

    Towards Hardware Cybersecurity Professor Houman Homayoun George Mason University 11:00am-12:00pm Tuesday, 20 Febuary 2018, ITE 325, UMBC Electronic system security, trust and reliability has become an increasingly critical area of concern for modern society. Secure hardware systems, platforms, as well as supply chains are critical to industry and government sectors such as national defense, healthcare,…

  • Free Screenings of the AlphaGo movie at UMBC, 7-9pm Tue 2/13 and 2-4pm Fri 2/16

    Free Screenings of the AlphaGo movie at UMBC UMBC will hold two free, public screenings of the award-winning documentary film AlphaGo, one 7:00-9:00pm Tuesday evening, February 13 and another 2:00-4:00pm Friday, February 16. Both will be held in lecture hall 5 (EMGR 027) in the UMBC Engineering Building (maps: campus, google).  Each screening will be followed by…

  • Global Game Jam, UMBC, 26-28 January 2018

    Global Game Jam at UMBC For the 10th(!) year in a row, UMBC is the Baltimore host site for the Global Game Jam! Where: Engineering (ENG) building on the UMBC campus When: 5 PM January 26 – 5 PM January 28, 2018 Cost: Free, but advance registration is required (register at globalgamejam.org) What is a…

  • UMBC faculty, alumni and partners discuss cybersecurity and industry challenges

      UMBC faculty, alumni and corporate partners discuss cybersecurity and industry challenges Cybersecurity is regularly a headliner in the news, especially when personal information stored online has been compromised, whether through a breach, hack, or threat. On Thursday, December 7, UMBC hosted experts from industry and academia at the National Press Club to discuss the…