Category: Students
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Cybersecurity CTF competition starts 1pm Friday 4/29
The UMBC Cyberdawgs will host a 48-hour Jeopardy-style Capture The Flag cybersecurity competition, online and in person for UMBC participants. DawgCTF 2022 will be a Jeopardy-style CTF, so things are pretty simple. Players register online, either in teams or alone. At 1300 EDT on April 29, 2022, the competition will open. Players will have access…
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UMBC Computer Engineering major Joshua Slaughter receives Marshall Scholarship
Computer Engineering major Joshua Slaughter ‘22, M30, has received the Marshall Scholarship, becoming the second student in UMBC history and the first in 29 years to be selected for the prestigious award. Slaughter is one of 41 American students chosen this year from institutions across the country for the Marshall Scholarship, which supports graduate study…
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Interested in AI? Join free Discover AI program this Fall, apply by Fri 9/3
UMBC has partnered with AI4ALL to offer its free online class introducing AI technology to selected UMBC undergraduate students from any major.
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2021 NSA Codebreaker Challenge Now Open
NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2021 Now Open NSA’s annual Codebreaker Challenge offers students a closer look at the type of work done at NSA and provides the opportunity to develop skills needed to achieve the Agency’s national security mission. The problems touch on skills like software reverse engineering, cryptanalysis, exploit development, blockchain analysis, and more. It…
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UMBC’s 25th Undergraduate Research & Creative Achievement Day had a global audience
UMBC’s 25th Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day had an expanded global audience UMBC’s 25th Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) reached more viewers than ever before, with visitors connecting online from as far away as Spain, Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, Bhutan, Germany, and the U.K.. Audiences logged more than 11,000 visits (compared with 8,000 in…
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UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program, apply by May 3
UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program is designed for students from all majors who are interested in solving important societal problems. The program fosters a vibrant interdisciplinary community to help tackle the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) Grand Challenges and gives students experiences and skills to create solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of…
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UMBC Cyber Dawgs win 2021 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
Congratulation to the UMBC Cyber Dawgs team, which took first place in the 2021 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (MACCDC) finals. UMBC’s team was one of eight teams out of an initial 23 that qualified for the final competition. UMBC’s Cyber Dawgs will move on to compete in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC),…
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ACM career talk: career opportunities in data privacy
Continuing with our Innovation, Collaboration, Job Search, and Career help theme, the ACM UMBC chapter is back again, hosting another session on the coming Friday with Sameer Ahirrao, a Founder and CEO of Ardent Privacy. He will be talking about Innovation, Collaboration, and Career Opportunities in Data Privacy. Find more on how you can get…
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ACM chapter talk: Career, job search, and interviewing tips, 4-5 pm Sat, 3/13
The UMBC student ACM chapter will hold a session on careers and job searches from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET on Saturday, March 13. Nikhil Mengani, a UMBC graduate and current Microsoft Software Development Engineer, will talk about interview tips, using LinkedIn, and overall job search best practices.
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talk: EIPC: Efficient Asynchronous BFT with Adaptive Security, 12-1 Fri 3/12
UMBC Ph.D. student Chao Liu talks about his research on developing an efficient asynchronous BFT protocol with adaptive security, 12-1pm ET Friday, March 12, online via webex.