Category: News

  • Computer Science Alumnus, Harry Chen, featured in UMBC Magazine

    Photo Courtesy UMBC Magazine In its latest issue, dubbed "Tech Trekkers", UMBC Magazine features Computer Science alumnus Harry Chen, one of the key players in the development of the iPhone 4S's digital assisant, Siri. While you may have heard about Harry through an article we posted last year, the UMBC Magazine article goes deeper into…

  • Meet the Students: Yatish Kumar Joshi

    Originally from Almora, India, Yatish came to UMBC in 2009 to pursue his Master's in Computer Engineering. When he's not studying, Yatish likes to run, play disc golf, and read thriller novels.   About Yatish… When did you know you wanted to study Computer Engineering? I pursued a Bio/Math track in high school and wanted…

  • Lego Turing Machine

    This video is a short documentary about the LEGO Turing Machine built by Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam.  They built the device for CWI's exposition "Turings Erfenis" in honor of Alan Turings one hundredth birthday this year and to demonstrate how simple a "universal computing device"…

  • Integrated Distributed-Bragg-Reflector Thermally Tunable Quantum Cascade Lasers

    10am 6/22: Liwei Cheng will defend his Ph.D. dissertation on the Fabrication and Operation of Integrated Distributed-Bragg-Reflector Thermally Tunable Quantum Cascade Lasers.

  • Ahmad Abbas takes home DIY/Hacker prize at Baltimore Hackathon

    In its second year, the Baltimore Hackathon invites teams or individuals to build a hardware or software project from start to finish. Sporting the slogan "Meet People. Build Stuff. Have Fun.", this year's competition was held in Tide Point from June 8–10. Among the more than ninety participants was UMBC student Ahmad Abbas, who took…

  • Meet the Students: Kavita Krishnaswamy

    Born in Tamil Nadu, India and raised in Columbia, MD, Kavita got her B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics. In 2001, Kavita joined UMBC's graduate program in Computer Science to pursue her Ph.D. When she's not studying, Kavita likes to watch movies and listen to audio books.   About Kavita… When did you know you…

  • talk: Via on Multi-Antenna Spectrum Sensing, 6/22

    2pm 6/22 Javier Via will talk about his research on Multi-antenna Spectrum Sensing: From GLRTs to LMPITs

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Baltimore Hackathon: meet people, build stuff, have fun

    The Second Baltimore Hackathon will be held this weekend, starting at 6:00pm Friday June 8 and ending at 6:00pm Sunday.