Category: Students
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Learn cybersecurity skills in NSA’s Codebreaker Challenge
Get hands-on cybersecurity and blockchain skills in NSA’s Codebreaker Challenge NSA’s sixth annual Codebreaker Challenge is a hands-on, cybersecurity engineering challenge in which students work to complete mission-focused objectives and push their university to the top of the competition leaderboard. The 2018 scenario involves ransomware and blockchain. A new strain of ransomware…
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Ninth annual CSEE Welcome Back Picnic, 12-2 Mon 9/24, ENGR atrium
Ninth annual CSEE Welcome Back Picnic, 12-2 Mon 9/24, ENGR atrium A very warm welcome to all the new and returning retrievers, on behalf of ACM and IEEE student chapters! As the semester is still gearing up, we invite you all to our ninth annual Welcome Back Picnic, jointly hosted by UMBC’s ACM and…
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UMBC’s Sherman receives $5.4m in funding for cybersecurity research and scholarships
UMBC receives $5.4m in funding for new cybersecurity projects NSF and NSA Fund Three Cybersecurity Projects by Prof. Alan Sherman Professor Alan Sherman and colleagues were recently awarded more than $5.4 million dollars in three new grants to support cybersecurity research and education at UMBC, including two from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and one from…
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2018 Maryland Cyber Challenge registration opens for student teams
2018 Maryland Cyber Challenge seeks student teams The 2018 Maryland Cyber Challenge seeks teams willing to test a range of skills simulating real-word cyber scenarios. Teams will climb a ladder of challenges demonstrating an ability to work together, understand both simple and complex vulnerabilities, defensive operations and gamified offensive operations. Registration is now…
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UMBC CSEE student and alumna selected to attend Heidelberg Laureate Forum
UMBC CSEE student and alumna to attend Heidelberg Laureate Forum A UMBC Ph.D. student and an alumna have been selected to participate in this year’s international Nobel laureate forums, which connect top student engineers and scientists from universities around the globe with the world’s leading scientific researchers. Kavita Krishnaswamy ‘07, computer science and mathematics, and…
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Bryan Vanek (CS, ’18), president of national champion CyberDawgs team, heads to computer security career
Bryan Vanek, president of national champion CyberDawgs team, heads to computer security career UMBC students have rewritten the record books in 2018. With graduation this week, and our soon-to-be new Retriever alumni preparing for graduate school, careers, and research around the world, we reflect on all they have achieved. Here is a CSEE student profile…
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With 3 majors and a passion for service, Max Poole (CS, Math, Econ ’18) promotes access to computing education
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SGA President Joshua Massey (CE ’18) prepares for a technology-focused teaching career
SGA President Joshua Massey (CE ’18) prepares for a technology-focused teaching career UMBC students have rewritten the record books in 2018. With graduation this week, and our soon-to-be new Retriever alumni preparing for graduate school, careers, and research around the world, we reflect on all they have achieved. Here is a CSEE student profile from…
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CWIT Scholar Katherine Dillon (CS ’18) heads to Google as a software engineer
CWIT Scholar Katherine Dillon heads to Google as a software engineer UMBC students have rewritten the record books in 2018. With graduation this week, and our soon-to-be new Retriever alumni preparing for graduate school, careers, and research around the world, we reflect on all they have achieved. Here is a CSEE student profile from the…
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2018 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning
2018 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning The 2018 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL) is a student-run, one-day event on speech, language & machine learning research to be held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) from 10:00am to 6:00pm on Saturday, May 12. There is no registration charge…