Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Category: Talks

  • talk: Robot Governance – Institutions and Issues, 10:30 Tue 7/24, ITR346

      Robot Governance – Institutions and Issues   Dr. Aaron Mannes, ISHPI Information Technologies 10:30-11:30 Tuesday, 24 July 2018, ITE 346   Inexpensive sensors and information storage and processing have enabled the large-scale production of robots: autonomous systems capable of acting on the world. These systems represent an enormous technological and economic opportunity that will change…

  • talk: Big Data, Security and Privacy, 11am Wed 5/16

    Big Data, Security and Privacy Prof. Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas 11:00-12:00 Wednesday, 16 May 2018, ITE 459, UMBC The collection, storage, manipulation and retention of massive amounts of data have resulted in serious security and privacy considerations. Various regulations are being proposed to handle big data so that the privacy of the…

  • Meet Your Professor Series: Marie desJardins, 12-1 Wed. May 2, ITE239

    Meet Your Professor Series: Marie desJardins Join the CS Education Club for its fourth and final installment of the Meet Your Professor series this semester featuring Dr. Marie desJardins. The series provides students with the opportunity to learn more about their professors, including how they achieved their position, what they believe makes an effective teacher, what…

  • talk: SPARCLE: Practical Homomorphic Encryption, 12pm Fri 4/27

    UMBC Cyber Defense Lab SPARCLE: Practical Homomorphic Encryption Russ Fink Senior Scientist Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory 12:00–1:00pm Friday, April 27, 2018, ITE 237, UMBC In the newly coined Privacy Age, researchers are building systems with homomorphic algorithms that enable “never decrypt” operations on sensitive data in applications such as computational private information…

  • 🗣 talk: Classifying Malware using Data Compression, 12-1 Fri 4/20, ITE229

    The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Classifying Malware using Data Compression Charles Nicholas, UMBC 12:00–1:00pm Friday, 20 April 2018, ITE 229 Comparing large binary objects can be tricky and expensive. We describe a method for comparing such strings, using ideas form data compression, that is both fast and effective. We present results from experiments applying…

  • 🤖 talk: Where’s my Robot Butler? 1-2pm Friday 4/13, ITE 231

    UMBC ACM Student Chapter Talk Where’s my Robot Butler? Robotics, NLP and Robots in Human Environments Professor Cynthia Matuszek, UMBC 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 13 April 2018, ITE 231, UMBC As robots become more powerful, capable, and autonomous, they are moving from controlled industrial settings to human-centric spaces such as medical environments, workplaces, and homes. As physical…

  • 🗣️ talk: Human Factors in Cyber Security, 12-1 Fri 4/13, ITE 229, UMBC

    The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Human Factors in Cyber Security Dr. Josiah Dykstra Cyber Security Researcher, US Department of Defense 12:00–1:00pm Friday, 13 April 2018, ITE 229, UMBC Humans play many roles in the effectiveness of cyber security. While users are often blamed for security compromises, human strengths and weaknesses also affect people who…

  • 🗣 talk: Mixed Membership Word Embeddings for Computational Social Science, 12pm Thr 4/5

    ACM ​Faculty Talk Mixed Membership Word Embeddings for Computational Social Science ​Dr. James Foulds, Information Systems, UMBC 12:00-1:00pm ​Thursday​,​ 5 ​April​ 2018, ITE​459,​ UMBC Word embeddings improve the performance of natural language processing (NLP) systems by revealing the hidden structural relationships between words. Despite their success in many applications, word embeddings have seen very little…

  • talk: Cybersecurity as a Team Sport – Understanding Counsel’s Role, 6pm Wed 4/4

    The UMBC at Shady Grove Cybersecurity Program Presents Cybersecurity as a Team Sport – Understanding Counsel’s Role Allison Bender J.D. 6:00-8:00pm Wednesday, 4 April 2018 The Universities at Shady Grove Building III (Camille Kendall Academic Center) Room 4230 9636 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850 Directions/Parking In this presentation by seasoned incident response counsel, Allison Bender,…

  • 🗣 talk: Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 12-1pm Fri, 3/30, ITE237

    UMBC ACM Student Chapter Entreprenuership Talk Innovation and Entrepreneurship Dr. Neil Rothman Graduate Program Director for Professional Programs in Engineering 12.00-1.00pm Friday,​ 30 ​March 2018, ITE​​237, UMBC There is a misconception that entrepreneurs only create start-up companies based on a new technology or product idea or that entrepreneurship is risky. We will discuss what entrepreneurship…