Category: News
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Talk: Energy Efficiency in Large-Scale Computing, to be rescheduled
1pm Fri 2/8: David Prucnal from DoD Advanced Computing Systems will talk about Energy Efficiency in Large-Scale Computing at 1:00pm on Friday, 8 February 2013 in room 227 of the ITE building at UMBC.
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Maryland and Baltimore lead nation in cybersecurity jobs
Maryland and Baltimore are top places for cybersecurity jobs according to the Cyber Jobs Report released earlier in January. The report includes a snapshot of the industry, its job openings and educational opportunities, and a proposed standardized cyber security nomenclature for this emerging industry. The study searched approximately 340,000 cybersecurity jobs offered by more than 18,000 companies…
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talk: Phlypo on Letting the data speak — from blind to semi-blind source separation, 1pm Fri 2/1
1pm Fri 2/1: Dr. Ronald Phlypo from the UMBC MLSP Lab will talk about his research on “Letting the data speak — from blind to semi-blind source separation” at 1:0pm on Friday, February 1, 2013 in room 227 of the ITE Building.
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Mid-Maryland Data Science Meetup
One the hottest topics in computing today is data science — how we can exploit the massive amounts of data now available to discover knowledge and solve problems. Data science touches on many computing areas (e.g., databases, machine learning, high performance computing, visualization, cloud computing, text analysis and graph analytics) and has many applications. If…
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JOB: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's DEVELOP program summer internship
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's DEVELOP program is looking for several interns to assist with Earth Science research projects during Summer 2013 for a 10 week paid internship, working 30-35 hours a week. The summer 2013 term will start on Monday, June 3, 2013 and end on Friday, August 9, 2013. Students will work with…
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Apply now for IASP and SFS cybersecurity scholarships
Applications are now being accepted for the Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) and the Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS). US citizens capable of receiving security clearances are eligible. The deadline for both programs in February 8, 2013. These scholarships require the recipient to work for the government following graduation. The awards include full tuition, stipend…
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Ph.D. defense: Multi-Source Option-Based Policy Transfer
10am 1/25: James MacGlashan will defend his Ph.D. dissertation, Multi-Source Option-Based Policy Transfer, at 10:00am on Friday, January 25.
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JOB: underwater sensor networks research in UMBC's ESNET Lab
Photo: ua-net.eu The ESNET Lab in UMBC's Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department is looking for qualified undergraduate or graduate students to join and work on an exciting underwater sensor networks project. For more information go to http://esnet.cs.umbc.edu/eduwan.html. The candidates applying should have experience in (or at least familiar with) some of the following areas:…
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Cindy Greenwood joins CWIT as Assistant Director, Cyber Scholars Program coordinator
The Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) welcomes Cindy Greenwood as their new Assistant Director. Ms. Greenwood will spearhead the new Cyber Scholars Program which kicks off this fall. Cindy Greenwood loved college so much that she never wanted to leave. So she didn’t. When an Advertising and Public Relations internship during her senior…
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Oracle updates Java 7 to fix dangerous security exploits
TL;DR version: if you have Java 7 on your computer, update it. Now. The Java programming language helped to make the Web popular in the mid 1990s by its invention of the Web applet. The idea was powerful and enabled complex programs to be automatically downloaded when you visited a Web page and run securely…