Category: Students
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Join the UMBC ACM Student Chapter
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. UMBC has an active ACM student chapter that is open to all UMBC undergraduate and graduate students of any major. While you do not need to join ACM to be a part of the local chapter, the annual membership dues…
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Amey Sane MS defense: Predicting the activities of mobile phone with HMMs
9am Tue 8/28: Amey Sane defends his MS thesis, Predicting the Activities of Mobile Phone Users with Hidden Markov Models, at 9:00am Tuesday, 28 August 2012, in room ITE 325b at UMBC.
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Sherman and Forno receive $2.5 Million NSF grant for Cybersecurity scholarships
CSEE Professor Dr. Alan Sherman (PI) and Dr. Rick Forno (Co-PI), Graduate Program Director, Cybersecurity have received an NSF grant of $2.5 million over five years to fund 22 students studying Information Assurance (IA) and Cybersecurity. The scholarships are part of the Federal Cyber Scholarship for Service (SFS) program. Future scholars will come from UMBC’s…
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Getting to Know CSEE at UMBC
Welcome class of 2016! We're so glad you chose to study Computer Science or Computer Engineering at UMBC! Now that you're here, we thought you might like a little tour of our department so that you can make the most of the next four years. We don't promise they'll be easy, but we do promise…
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How LinkedIn should have protected your password
In his column in the latest issue of ACM Queue, LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide, security expert Poul-Henning Kamp, explains the flaws in LinkedIn's password management process and the simple steps that can make it much more secure.
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Baltimore Hackathon: meet people, build stuff, have fun
The Second Baltimore Hackathon will be held this weekend, starting at 6:00pm Friday June 8 and ending at 6:00pm Sunday.
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Google's Blockly visual programming environment
Blockly is new web-based, graphical programming language developed by Google. It's graphical in the style of Scratch in that you create a program not as a linguistic object, but by selecting and composing icons that represent control flow constructs, operations, functions, variables and values. It's Web based in that both the program development and program…
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UMBC ACM student chapter elects new officers
The UMBC student chapter of the ACM met last week to elect a new slate of officers for the 2012-13 academic year: Varish Mulwad as President, Lisa Mathews as Vice-President, Ravendar Bhojwani as Secretary and Prajit Kumar Das as Treasurer.
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Outstanding Achievement in Computer Science and Computer Engineering 2012
Outstanding Achievement in Computer Science Outstanding academic achievement or service in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Clay Alberty Laura J. Anzaldi Madeleine R. Sparling-Sedlak Nathaniel K. Lam Menal G. Modha Lauren J. Won Outstanding Achievement in Computer Engineering Outstanding academic achievement or service in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical…
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CSEE seniors Christovich and Burke earn Student Leadership Awards
Congratulations to graduating seniors Thomas Christovich and Timothy Burke, who were awarded Student Leadership Awards by the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department. The pair was recognized for this honor at yesterday's Pre-commencement Breakfast & Awards Reception. A Computer Engineering graduate, Thomas Christovich (pictured left) has been part of UMBC's Amateur Radio Club for four…