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  • 🗣️ talk: Challenges and pitfalls in big data analysis, 3:30 Thr 4/12 ITE325

    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…

  • 🗣 talk: Mixed Membership Word Embeddings for Computational Social Science, 12pm Thr 4/5

    ACM ​Faculty Talk Mixed Membership Word Embeddings for Computational Social Science ​Dr. James Foulds, Information Systems, UMBC 12:00-1:00pm ​Thursday​,​ 5 ​April​ 2018, ITE​459,​ UMBC Word embeddings improve the performance of natural language processing (NLP) systems by revealing the hidden structural relationships between words. Despite their success in many applications, word embeddings have seen very little…

  • IBM-UMBC Day, 9-3pm April 6

    IBM-UMBC Day, 9am-3pm April 6, 2018 9:00am-3:00pm Friday, 6 April 2018 University of Maryland, Baltimore County Performing Arts and Humanities Building 1000 Hilltop Circle | Baltimore, MD 21250 UMBC is pleased to host the first ever IBM-UMBC Day on Friday, April 6th. IBM-UMBC Day will create connections and enhance collaboration between UMBC faculty, students, and…

  • talk: Cybersecurity as a Team Sport – Understanding Counsel’s Role, 6pm Wed 4/4

    The UMBC at Shady Grove Cybersecurity Program Presents Cybersecurity as a Team Sport – Understanding Counsel’s Role Allison Bender J.D. 6:00-8:00pm Wednesday, 4 April 2018 The Universities at Shady Grove Building III (Camille Kendall Academic Center) Room 4230 9636 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850 Directions/Parking In this presentation by seasoned incident response counsel, Allison Bender,…

  • 🗣 talk: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 12-1pm Fri, 3/30, ITE237

    UMBC ACM Student Chapter Entreprenuership Talk Innovation and Entrepreneurship Dr. Neil Rothman Graduate Program Director for Professional Programs in Engineering 12.00-1.00pm Friday,​ 30 ​March 2018, ITE​​237, UMBC There is a misconception that entrepreneurs only create start-up companies based on a new technology or product idea or that entrepreneurship is risky. We will discuss what entrepreneurship…

  • UMBC launches NSF Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics

    UMBC launches Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics to tackle data-intensive challenges from disease tracking to online privacy   The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected UMBC to lead a new $3 million research partnership that will deploy next-generation computing hardware to solve major infrastructure challenges. UMBC will launch the Center for Accelerated Real Time…

  • Hands-on Raspberry Pi Workshops: starting 3/28

      Hands-on Raspberry Pi Workshops: starting 3/28 The UMBC IEEE Student Branch will hold a hands-on Raspberry Pi Workshop Series over the next two weeks. The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. It is a capable little device that…

  • 🗣talk: Internet of Acoustic Things: Challenges, Opportunities & Threats, 10:30 3/28

    Internet of Acoustic Things (IoAT): Challenges, Opportunities, and Threats Nirupam Roy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 10:30-11:30am Wed. 28 March 2018, ITE325b, UMBC The recent proliferation of acoustic devices, ranging from voice assistants to wearable health monitors, is leading to a sensing ecosystem around us — referred to as the Internet of Acoustic Things or IoAT.…

  • 🎓 Applications open for UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program

    2017 UMBC Grand Challenge Scholars Applications open for UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program UMBC is recruiting undergraduate students for the third cohort for its Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP). UMBC’s GCSP is an exciting opportunity that is open to students from all majors who are interested in exploring interdisciplinary approaches to making the world a…

  • 🗣️ 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…