Category: News
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Rick Forno discusses cybersecurity on NPR
Last week, health insurance giant Anthem revealed that the personal information of as many as 80 million customers was stolen by hackers. This news came just days before President Obama announced the creation of a new agency to analyze and counter cyber threats. In this hour, we look at Obama’s cybersecurity agenda, and the cyber-security…
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talk: Labrou on Studying Internet Latency via TCP Queries to DNS, 1:30pm Fri 2/27
Verisign principal data architect Dr. Yannis Labrou on using big data analytics to dynamically estimate Internet latency, 1:30pm Fri. Feb. 27 in ITE 456 at UMBC
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ArtBytes hackathon this weekend at the Walters Art Museum
Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum will host ArtBytes 3, its third annual hackathon, this weekend from 6pm Friday to 3pm Sunday. Technology and creative communities will work together at the museum to build programs and applications that enhance the museum experience for visitors. $5,000 in cash prizes will be awarded. It’s a great opportunity for students…
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Rescheduled CMPE Town Hall Meeting
The Fall 2014 CMPE Town Hall Meeting has been rescheduled for Friday, February 13, at 12 noon in ITE 104. Pizza will be available in the atrium outside ITE 104 at the conclusion of the meeting. The meeting will have a limited agenda, due to time constraints. A second Town Hall meeting will be happening later…
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MS defense: Real-time Realistic Rendering of Sunrise and Sunset on the Ocean
Yuping Zhang will defend her MS thesis, “Real-time Realistic Rendering of Sunrise and Sunset on the Ocean”, at 10am on Monday, 9 February 2015 in ENG 005 at UMBC.
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Postdoc or Research Professor in Computational Photonics
The Computational Photonics Laboratory has one or two post-doctoral/research professor positions available. Please click for more information: https://www.csee.umbc.edu/?p=18210.
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talk: Chaum's Protocol for Detecting Man-in-the-Middle, 12pm Fri 1/30
Chaum’s Protocol for Detecting Man-in-the-Middle: Explanation, Demonstration, and Timing Studies for a Text-Messaging Scenario Prof. Alan T. Sherman UMBC Cyber Defense Lab 12-1pm Friday, 30 January 2015, ITE 228, UMBC We explain, demonstrate, and evaluate Chaum’s 2006 protocol for detecting a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) of text-messaging network communications. MitM attacks pose serious risks to many network…
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CSEE faculty develop wearable systems to monitor sleep quality
Profs. Nilanjan Banerjee, Ryan Robucci and Chintan Patel and Dr. Richard Allen at Johns Hopkins University were awarded a TEDCO MD Innovation Initiative grant to develop a wearable system that can non-intrusively monitor sleep quality in a home setting.
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Anupam Joshi responds to SOTU remarks on cybersecurity
Last week President Barack Obama gave his annual State of the Union Address. Not surprisingly, among the things his address touched on was cybersecurity. CSEE’s Professor Anupam Joshi, director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity, was one of nine academics invited by The Conversation to give reactions to particular items mention in the address. His…
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Two tenure-track positions for Computer Science at UMBC
The UMBC CSEE department has two tenure-track faculty positions for its Computer Science program and is especially interested in candidates whose research areas include security and data analytics and related fields. Apply by January 15, 2015.