Category: News
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Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014
The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 bill was passed by Congress this month and signed by the President at the end of last week. The bill provides for “an ongoing, voluntary public-private partnership to improve cybersecurity, and to strengthen cybersecurity research and development, workforce development and education, and public awareness and preparedness, and for other…
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New computing faculty positions at UMBC
UMBC has nine open full-time positions for computing faculty including five tenure track professors, a professor of the practice and three lecturers.
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CSEE Faculty Involved With NSF's CS10K Teacher Training Project
UMBC Professor Marie desJardins is collaborating with Maryland educators and researchers in an NSF-funded CS10K Teacher Training Project that seeks to change how computer science is taught in high schools.
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A drone's eye view of Baltimore
Filmmaker Matthew Coakley of Blue Mantle Media created this drone-assisted video of Baltimore.
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Marie desJardins Collaborates with Howard County Parents and Teachers for HowGirlsCode
CSEE’s Marie desJardins recently collaborated with a group of Howard County parents and teachers to create HowGirlsCode, an educational program that “educates and inspires young girls to pursue computer related activities, courses, and careers.” The program–originally called Computer Mania Club–is based out of Fulton Elementary School. Over the course of ten weeks, students meet for weekly two-hour sessions, working…
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PhD defense: Huguens Jean, Paper Form Classification for Information Systems Strengthening in Developing Countries
UMBC PhD student Huguens Jean defends his dissertation, Paper form digitization for information systems strengthening and socio-economic development in developing countries, at 1pm on Friday, December 19
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Anupam Joshi named an IEEE Fellow
UMBC Professor Anupam Joshi was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to security, privacy and data management in mobile and pervasive systems.
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MS defense: Epileptic Seizure Detection using Symbolic Aggregate Approximation and Bag of Patterns
UMBC graduate student Sidharth Allani will defend his MS thesis, SAX-BOP: Epileptic Seizure Detection using Symbolic Aggregate Approximation and Bag of Patterns, at 1:00pm on Friday, December 12 in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
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Dr. Rick Forno discusses infrastructure security with SIGNAL magazine
In the December 2014 issue of AFCEA’s SIGNAL Magazine, CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno comments on the likelihood of a destructive cyberattack on critical American infrastructure. He was one of several experts discussing US Cyber Command’s worry about such potential incidents and how it might respond. He believes a major cyber attack against critical infrastructure is…
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PhD Proposal: Learning Representation and Modeling Time Series
UMBC PhD student Zhiguang Wang will present his dissertation proposal, Learning Representation and Modeling Time Series, at 10:00am on Friday, December 12, 2015 in room 325b of the ITE Building.