Category: Students
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Winning projects at the HackUMBC 2017 Hackathon
HackUMBC was a 24-hour tech innovation marathon where students across the East Coast collaborate on new ideas to build mobile, web and hardware projects. HackUMBC involved a diverse group of students, undergraduate, graduate and high school students over 18, who enjoy a weekend of hacking, workshops, tech talks, networking, and other fun activities. At the…
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DevFestMD ’17: a day of talks, workshops and networking, Fri Oct 27, Baltimore
Want to learn about blockchain or machine learning? Like to get hands-on experience building software for IoT? Participate in DevFestMD ’17 and do all of that and more! DevFestMD is a day-long tech event filled with talks and hands-on workshops. So whether you’re thinking about joining the tech community or a seasoned software engineer, they…
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HackUMBC hackathon, Saturday-Sunday 7-8 October 2017
HackUMBC hackathon, Saturday-Sunday 7-8 October 2017 HackUMBC is a 24-hour tech innovation marathon where students across the East Coast collaborate on new ideas to build mobile, web and hardware projects. HackUMBC invites diverse groups of students, undergraduate, graduate and high school students over 18, to enjoy a weekend of hacking, workshops, tech talks, networking, and…
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Technica 24-hour all-woman hackathon, Sat-Sun November 4-5,UM College Park
Technica 24-hour all-woman hackathon, Sat-Sun November 4-5, UM College Park Technica is the University of Maryland’s all-women hackathon. Over 24 hours on Saturday and Sunday, November 4-5, participants are immersed in tech culture and encouraged to exercise their imagination to create interesting and innovative hacks. Technica differs from the typical hackathon in that it encourage…
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HackUMBC hackathon, Saturday-Sunday 7-8 October 2017
HackUMBC hackathon, Saturday-Sunday 7-8 October 2017 HackUMBC is a 24-hour tech innovation marathon where students across the East Coast collaborate on new ideas to build mobile, web and hardware projects. HackUMBC invites diverse groups of students to enjoy a weekend of hacking, workshops, tech talks, networking, and other fun activities. At the end of 24…
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Learn important cybersecurity skills in NSA’s Codebreaker Challenge
Learn important cybersecurity skills in NSA’s Codebreaker Challenge NSA’s fifth annual Codebreaker Challenge is a hands-on, software reverse engineering challenge in which students work to complete mission-focused objectives and push their university to the top of the competition leaderboard. The contest asks undergraduate and graduate students to do hands-on exercises that will help them…
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CSEE Alumna Lauren Mazzoli chosen for UMBC Alumni Association Rising Star award
CSEE Alumna Lauren Mazzoli chosen for UMBC Alumni Association Rising Star award Each year, the UMBC Alumni Association celebrates UMBC graduates and faculty who have made outstanding contributions to the University, their fields, and their communities. This year, CSEE Alumna Lauren Mazzoli was chosen for the Rising Star award, which is given to an outstanding…
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UMBC researchers develop AI system to design clothing for your personal fashion style
AI system designs clothing for your personal fashion style Everyone knows that more and more data is being collected about our everyday activities, like where we go online and in the physical world. Much of that data is being used for personalization. Recent UMBC CSEE Masters student Prutha Date explored a novel kind of…
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PhD defense: Prajit Das, Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices Prajit Kumar Das 8:00-11:00am Tuesday, 22 August 2017, ITE325b, UMBC There are ongoing security and privacy concerns regarding mobile platforms which are being used by a growing number of citizens. Security and privacy models typically used by mobile platforms use one-time permission acquisition mechanisms.…
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PhD Defense: Bryan Wilkinson, Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution Bryan Wilkinson 1:00pm Friday, 18 August 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC Lexical semantics provides many important resources in natural language processing, despite the recent preferences for distributional methods. In this dissertation we investigate an under-represented lexical relationship, that of scalarity. We define sclarity as it…