Category: News
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talk: Data-driven Approach for Sustainable Smart Cities, 11am 5/6, ITE 459, UMBC
Information Systems Spring 2019 Distinguished Lecture on Sustainable Smart Cities A Data-driven Approach for Sustainable Smart Cities Prof. Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts 11:00am Monday, 6 May 2019, ITE 459, UMBC Recent technological advances have enabled deployments of pervasive sensing and actuation in our physical world, which has led to the emergence of cyber-physical systems…
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talk: Using CPSA to Analyze Force-Latency Protocols, 12-1 4/19
UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Using CPSA to Analyze Force-Latency Protocols Dr. Edward Zieglar, National Security Agency 12-1 Friday, 19 April 19, ITE 227 Several cryptographic protocols have been proposed to address the Man-in-the-Middle attack without the prior exchange of keys. This talk will describe a formal analysis of one such protocol proposed by Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn,…
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IBM Watson Cloud Academy Workshop, 9-5 May 3
IBM Cloud Academy Workshop 9am-5pm Friday, May 3, 2019 UMBC will host an all-day IBM Watson Cloud Academy Workshop 9am-5pm on May 3 taught by Prof. Anand Singh of NCSU. All faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend. We also welcome government and industry partners. Register for the free workshop here. The workshop will…
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Post-Bac Certificate in Digital Forensics
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Professional Studies: Digital Forensics UMBC’s cybersecurity graduate program has added a new 12-credit post-baccalaureate certificate in professional studies focused on digital forensics. The Digital Forensics certificate program is intended for early and mid-career IT and law- enforcement professionals who want to learn basic and advanced concepts and develop skills in the field…
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CSEE at Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day
CSEE students at UMBC’s 23nd Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day Congratulations to the 49 undergraduate majors from our computer engineering and computer science programs who are presenting their research at the 23nd Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day on Wednesday, 24 April 2019. Devon Adams | Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Development…
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talk: Why are memory-corruption bugs still a thing?, 10:30am Mon 4/8, ITE325
Why are memory-corruption bugs still a thing? The challenges of securing software at an assembly level Doug BrittonCTO, RunSafe Security Inc. 10:30-11:30 Monday, 8 April 2019, ITE346 Methods to chip away at the danger of memory-corruption bugs have been available for some time. Why has the going-price of memory-corruption-based exploits not spiked? If the methods…
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SFS cyberdefense scholarship applications due April 15
SFS cyberdefense scholarship applications due Noon Monday, April 15 The next application deadline for SFS cyberdefense scholarships at UMBC is 12:00 noon Monday, 15 April 2019, for possible scholarships beginning in the fall of 2019. See the Center for Information Security and Assurance site for details and application forms. These major scholarships include tuition, generous…
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talk: Learning to Ground Instructions to Plans, 2:30 Thr 3/21, ITE346
Learning to Ground Natural Language Instructions to Plans Nakul Gopalan, Brown University 2:30-3:30pm Thursday, 21 March 2019, ITE 346, UMBC In order to easily and efficiently collaborate with humans, robots must learn to complete tasks specified using natural language. Natural language provides an intuitive interface for a layperson to interact with a robot without the…
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talk: Does Wireless and Mobile Networking Research Still Matter? 12pm Wed 2/27, ITE325
Does Wireless and Mobile Networking Research Still Matter? Dr. Dmitri Perkins, National Science Foundation 12:00pm Wed. Feb. 27, 2019, ITE325, UMBC The miniaturization of radio and communication technologies has led to the widespread proliferation of wireless-enabled devices and to an explosion of mobile applications and services. Without question, wireless networking has become an enabling and…
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talk and demo: Exploiting IoT Vulnerabilities, 11:45-1:00pm Mon 2/18
Exploiting IoT Vulnerabilities Dr. Yatish Joshi, Senior Engineer, Cisco Systems 11:45am-1:00pm Monday, 18 February 2019, ITE 325-B The past decade has seen explosive growth in the use and deployment of IoT (Internet of Things) devices. According to Gartner there will be about 20.8 billion IoT devices in use by 2020. These devices are seeing wide…