Category: News
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CSEE alumna Jeehye Yun honored by UMBC Alumni Association
CSEE Alumna Jeehye Yun (BS CS, 1997) has been chosen by the UMBC Alumni Association as the 2013 Outstanding Alumnus from Engineering and Information Technology.
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UMBC hosts student conference on speech, language and machine learning, Fri Oct 11
UMBC will host the Third Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL) 10-5 on Friday Oct. 11, 2013.. This is a one day, student run event that brings together students, postdocs, faculty and researchers from universities in the Mid-Atlantic area doing research on speech, language and machine learning.
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talk: Seymour on Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity, Noon Fri. 10/4, ITE228
12pm 10/4: PhD student John Seymour gives an overview of quantum computing for the computer scientist interested in cybersecurity and introduce some current research questions and projects involving quantum computing and cybersecurity.
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Karuna Joshi receives TEDCO grant to develop cloud services broker
CSEE research professor Karuna Joshi received a $100K grant to develop an advanced prototype for a cloud service broker from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO). The software system will help companies and organizations negotiate for, select and procure cloud computing services based on a description of their needs and preferences. TEDCO was created by the…
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CyberDawgs Advance to MDC3 Finals
UMBC’s intercollegiate Cyber Defense Team (the “CyberDawgs”) once again will be competing in the finals of the Maryland Cyber Challenge (MDC3) taking place on October 9th at the CyberMaryland 2013 conference in Baltimore. All three of UMBC’s teams are in the finals! Competing against the three CyberDawgs teams will be two teams from UMUC, two…
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Professor Jian Chen receives NIST grant for immersive metrology research
Professor Jian Chen received a research award from the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) Measurement Science and Engineering research grant program to discover new immersive metrology, visualization, and analysis tools for interacting with and understanding multi-valued volumes of large scientific data in immersive display environments. The research will explore new approaches to integrate…
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talk: Thermal light N-qubits, 2:30 Tue 10/1 ITE325b
UMBC Quantum Computation Seminar Thermal light N-qubits Yanhau Shih Physics Department, UMBC 2:30-4:00 Tuesday, 1 October 2013, ITE 325b This talk will discuss a few recent experiments on Nth-order interference of N independent and incoherent thermal fields from their intensity fluctuation correlation measurement. The observed interference is similar to that of entangled states. These experiments…
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Free ebook helps teens manage online safety (this week only)
Security expert Linda McCarthy has written a 48-page book, Digital Drama: Staying Safe While Being Social Online, aimed teens and their families on how to manage online behavior to enhance safety, security and privacy. McCarthy is an author and computer security consultant with more than twenty years of industry experience in educating families, security auditing,…
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CSEE Prof. Nicholas receives research funding to study Malicious Software
Professor Charles Nicholas has received research funding from the National Science Foundation to develop better ways to detect malicious software (malware) and defend computers against it. The award will provide up to $75,000 over the next year to support the research of Dr. Nicholas and his students. The process of creating malware has become more…
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Prof Marie desJardins talks on teaching and diversity in CS education and research
CSEE Professor Marie desJardins was one of three UMBC professors who spoke at a recent UMBC Provost’s luncheon and new faculty seminar on Great Teachers Talk about Teaching. She was joined by Professor James Grubb (History) and Manil Suri (Mathematics & Statistics), who also spoke at the seminar. Dr. desJardins will also be talking on…