Category: fyi

  • JOB: CyberSecurity internships and part-time positions

    CyberPoint is seeking Paid Summer Intern Scientists and a Jr. IT Specilist. US Citizenship required. APPLY VIA UMBCworks. CyberPoint delivers innovative, leading-edge cyber security products, solutions and services to customers worldwide. We discover the threats and vulnerabilities that expose data, systems, and infrastructure to compromise, and we design defenses that provide critical protection. Our approach…

  • JOB: Summer Internships at NIST in MD and Colorado

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is looking for students for its paid Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF.) SURF offers students in STEM fields PAID summer research under the guidance of one NIST's scientists and engineers. The 11-week program at NIST's Gaithersburg, MD campus is May 23 through August 9. There is also…

  • Jobs and internships at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    The Visual Analytics Research Team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is looking for summer interns at all levels as well as post-docs, post-masters, and post-bacs. We are also looking for qualified full time candidates. We have a variety of projects in the areas of cyber security/network defense and health care. Projects tend to be 'big…

  • How technology will change your future

    In last week’s PBS NOVA scienceNOW program, What Will the Future Be Like?, David Pogue imagined what the Tech page of The New York Times might look like 10, 20, or 30 years from today and offered his predictions about the technologies that will transform your life and the lives of your grandchildren. Mobile phones…

  • talk: Subjectivity and Social Role Recognition in Meetings

    Noon 11/20:Theresa Wilson of the JHU HLTCOE will talk on Subjectivity and Social Role Recognition in Meetings at Noon on Tuesday 11/20 in ITE 459

  • 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…

  • DC and Baltimore have high percentages of college-educated residents

      A small study by the Brookings Institution looked at the percentage of people age 25 and over in the 100 largest U.S. metro areas who held at least a bachelor’s degree in 2010, versus in 1970. It reveals a trend for college graduates to concentrate in a set of metropolitan areas that include the…

  • On Lisbeth Salander's use of SQL

    Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, is seen using SQL in the Hollywood remake. See The Girl With The ANSI Tattoo for an analysis of which DBMS this is and a critique of the queries (Everybody’s a critic!).

  • 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:…

  • Best Cities For Tech Jobs: DC #2, Baltimore #5

    Forbes ranked metropolitan areas on increased tech-related jobs based on their employment growth in the sectors most identified with the high-tech economy and STEM. Among the top five are DC at #2 and Baltimore at #5. No. 2: Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Amid a surge in government spending, the capital area has enjoyed 20.6% growth in tech…