Category: Students
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UMBC Grand Challenge Scholars Program
UMBC Grand Challenge Scholars Program Engaging students in problems that matter Reviewing applications beginning April 1, 2017 Do you want to help solve important problems facing society? Would you like to join and be part of a vibrant interdisciplinary community? Do you want to be recognized by the National Academy of Engineering for your contributions?…
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UMBC Cyber Dawgs to hold student cybersecurity competition on Saturday, March 11
The UMBC Cyber Dawgs will hold a cybersecurity Capture the Flag competition on Saturday, March 11th from 9am-5pm in the Public Policy building. The event will be a jeopardy-style competition where individual competitors answer questions about aspects of cybersecurity, including network forensics, reverse engineering, reconnaissance, and cryptography. The competition is open to all current UMBC…
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UMBC Grand Challenge Symposium, 1-2:30 pm Friday 2/17, Library
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’s Cyber Scholars program stands out as a national model in “Diverse”
At a time when just 12 percent of information security analysts are black, Hispanic or Asian, and only 20 percent of information security analysts are women, successful student support programs like UMBC’s Cyber Scholars are poised to make a major impact on the field, suggests a new article in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.…
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Recruiting UMBC Students for the Grand Challenge Scholars Program , Fri. 2/17
UMBC undergraduates interested in the Grand Challenge Scholars Program are encouraged to attend a symposium and recruiting event at 1:00pm on Friday, February 17. The Grand Challenge Scholars Program is a program for undergraduates in all majors who are interested in thinking about big problems facing society, and how to solve them from broad,…
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Capital Area Women in Computing Celebration, 2/24-25
The Capital Area Women in Computing Celebration, sponsored by ACM-W, will be held at Georgetown University on Friday, February 24th and Saturday, February 25. The celebration will bring together women at the high school, undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels to promote the recruitment, retention, and progression of women in computing fields. The cost of student…
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UMBC places 7th at Pan-Am Team Chess Championship
UMBC Chess finished seventh overall at the 2016 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 27–30. The UMBC Chess A team finished in 10th place, with victories over the Texas Tech D team, the University of Oklahoma A team, the Columbia University B team, and the Arizona State University team. The…
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In Hour of Code, UMBC students give Baltimore youth hands-on intro to computing careers
At one table, thirteen Lakeland Elementary/Middle School students from Baltimore used tablets to create patterns of colorful shapes through code. At another station, the students composed music and played games on laptops by completing circuits connected to bananas and celery. The scene in UMBC’s Commons last Thursday was just what Gabrielle Salib ‘17, interdisciplinary studies,…
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UMBC Hour of Code, 11-2 Dec 7-8, Main Street
The CS Education student org, with support from the CS Matters in Maryland CS education project, is planning UMBC’s first-ever Hour of Code event. Hour of Code is an initiative that organizes hands-on learning experiences for students of all ages during CS Education Week (December 5-11, 2016, coinciding with Admiral Grace Hopper’s birthday). UMBC’s Hour…
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PhD defense: Deep Neural Networks in Real-Time Embedded Systems
PhD Dissertation Defense Deploying Deep Neural Networks in Real-Time Embedded Systems Adam Page 10:00am Monday, 21 November 2016, ITE 325b Deep neural networks have been shown to outperform prior state-of-the-art solutions that rely heavily on hand-engineered features coupled with simple classification techniques. In addition to achieving several orders of magnitude improvement, they offer a number…