Category: Talks

  • IBM’s Arvind Krishna, Accelerating Technology Disruption: the Cognitive Revolution, 1pm Fri 2/24, UMBC

    CSEE Department Distinguished Seminar Accelerating Technology Disruption: The Cognitive Revolution Dr. Arvind Krishna Senior Vice President, Hybrid Cloud and Director, IBM Research 1:00-2:00pm, Friday, 24 February 2017, PAHB 132 Digital disruption is changing the world around us, breaking down traditional barriers to market entry, creating new business models, and leading to new solutions to global challenges.…

  • talk: Securing Networks by Detecting Logical Flaws in Protocol Implementations

    Securing Networks by Detecting Logical Flaws in Protocol Implementations Dr. Endadul Hoque Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University 12:00pm Wednesday, 22 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC Implementations of network protocols are integral components of various networked computing systems, spanning from Internet-of-Things (IoT) to enormous data centers. Research efforts to defend these implementations by introducing new designs…

  • talk: Semantic Approach to Automating Big Data and Cloud, 12pm Mon 2/20

    A Semantically Rich Approach to Automating Big Data and Cloud Dr. Karuna Joshi University of Maryland, Baltimore County 12:00pm Monday, 20 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC With the explosion of Big Data and the growth of data science, there is an urgent need to automate the data lifecycle of generation, ingestion, analytics, knowledge extraction, and…

  • talk: Cybersecurity and Cellular Technology, 6pm 2/23 Shady Grove

    UMBC Cybersecurity Program Cyber Talk Cybersecurity and Cellular Technology Joshua Franklin 6:00-8:00pm Thursday, 23 February 2017 The Universities at Shady Grove Building III (Camille Kendall Academic Center) Room 3241 9636 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 ​​The UMBC Cybersecurity Program is proud to bring you Cyber Talk, a new speaker series that highlights special topics in…

  • talk: Accountability and Data Privacy in the Life Cycle of Big Data

    Towards End-to-End Security and Privacy: Accountability and Data Privacy in the Life Cycle of Big Data Taeho Jung Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology 11:00am Tuesday, 14 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC The advent of big data has given birth to numerous innovative life-enhancing applications, but the big data is often called as a…

  • talk: Bayesianism and the Evidence Problem, 4pm 2/15

    Philosophy Department Colloquium Bayesianism and the Evidence Problem Lisa Cassell University of Massachusetts/Amherst 4-6:00pm Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 456 Performing Arts & Humanities Bayesianism is a theory that gives us norms for how the degrees of belief we have in certain propositions — our “credences” — ought to hang together. For instance, it tells me…

  • Talk: Lexumo Continuous Open Source Code Security

     The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Lexumo Tech Talk: Continuous Open Source Code Security Dr. Richard T. Carback III Lexumo, Inc. 11:15am Friday, 16 December 2016, ITE 237, UMBC Lexumo is a startup which provides the only automated service that continuously monitors IoT software platforms for the latest public vulnerabilities. Funded in January of 2016…

  • talk: Biomedical Engineering Projects at UMBC’s Center for Advanced Sensor Technology

    UMBC CSEE Research Seminar  Biomedical Engineering Projects at CAST Dr. Yordan Kostov UMBC Center for Advanced Sensing Technology 1-2pm, Friday, 9 December 2016, ITE 229 The Center for Advanced Sensor Technology is currently leading two projects: “Biologics manufacturing on demand,” funded by DARPA, and “A wearable asthma trigger monitoring system with integrated physiological monitor,” funded…

  • Event: Wanted, One Million IT Security Specialists by 2018

    Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to join CWIT and  STEMRules for a lunch event to hear from and network with diverse professionals from across the cybersecurity industry. Wanted: One Million IT Security Specialists by 2018 You Could be One of Them 12-1:30pm Friday, 2 December 2016 Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery (1st floor) Lunch…

  • talk: Genetic ancestry predicts striatal dopamine D2 receptors, 1pm Dec 2, ITE229

    UMBC CSEE Seminar Series Genetic ancestry predicts striatal dopamine D2 receptors Dr. Corinde Wiers National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD 1-2pm Friday, 2 December 2016, ITE 229, UMBC Genetic ancestry was recently found to be associated with cortical geometry, cortical surface, and total brain volume in humans. Despite ethnic differences in allele…