Category: Talks

  • talk: The Evolution of Mobile Authentication, 1pm 4/30, ITE325, UMBC

    The Evolution of Mobile Authentication Prof. Keith Mayes, Royal Holloway University of London 1:00pm Tuesday 30 April 2019, ITE325, UMBC Mobile communication is an essential part or modern life, however it is dependent on some fundamental security technologies. Critical amongst these technologies, is mobile authentication, the ability to identify valid users (and networks) and enable…

  • talk: Using CPSA to Analyze Force-Latency Protocols, 12-1 4/19

    UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Using CPSA to Analyze Force-Latency Protocols Dr. Edward Zieglar, National Security Agency 12-1 Friday, 19 April 19, ITE 227 Several cryptographic protocols have been proposed to address the Man-in-the-Middle attack without the prior exchange of keys. This talk will describe a formal analysis of one such protocol proposed by Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn,…

  • talk: IPv6 and its Security Issues, 5:30 Mon. 4/22

    IPv6 and its Security Issues Neal Ziring, National Security Agency 5:30-6:45 Monday 22 April 2019, Math/Psych 101 CMSC 626 Guest Lecture — all are welcome to attend In this talk, we will introduce the basics of IPv6 and some of the security issues associated with it. Specifically, we discuss the motivations, history and adoption of…

  • talk: Why are memory-corruption bugs still a thing?, 10:30am Mon 4/8, ITE325

    Why are memory-corruption bugs still a thing? The challenges of securing software at an assembly level Doug BrittonCTO, RunSafe Security Inc. 10:30-11:30 Monday, 8 April 2019, ITE346 Methods to chip away at the danger of memory-corruption bugs have been available for some time.  Why has the going-price of memory-corruption-based exploits not spiked?  If the methods…

  • talk: Learning to Ground Instructions to Plans, 2:30 Thr 3/21, ITE346

    Learning to Ground Natural Language Instructions to Plans Nakul Gopalan, Brown University 2:30-3:30pm Thursday, 21 March 2019, ITE 346, UMBC In order to easily and efficiently collaborate with humans, robots must learn to complete tasks specified using natural language. Natural language provides an intuitive interface for a layperson to interact with a robot without the…

  • talk: Algorithms for Weakly Supervised Denoising of EEG Data, 6:30pm Feb 28

    The February meeting of the Data Works MD Meetup features a talk by UMBC Professor Tim Oates on  Two Algorithms for Weakly Supervised Denoising of EEG Data, 6:30-9pm Thursday, February 28, 2019 at UMBC’s South Campus.  Join the meetup and register to attend this free talk and network with members of the Maryland data science community. …

  • talk: Does Wireless and Mobile Networking Research Still Matter? 12pm Wed 2/27, ITE325

    Does Wireless and Mobile Networking Research Still Matter? Dr. Dmitri Perkins, National Science Foundation 12:00pm Wed. Feb. 27, 2019, ITE325, UMBC The miniaturization of radio and communication technologies has led to the widespread proliferation of wireless-enabled devices and to an explosion of mobile applications and services. Without question, wireless networking has become an enabling and…

  • talk and demo: Exploiting IoT Vulnerabilities, 11:45-1:00pm Mon 2/18

    Exploiting IoT Vulnerabilities Dr. Yatish Joshi, Senior Engineer, Cisco Systems 11:45am-1:00pm Monday, 18 February 2019, ITE 325-B The past decade has seen explosive growth in the use and deployment of IoT (Internet of Things) devices. According to Gartner there will be about 20.8 billion IoT devices in use by 2020. These devices are seeing wide…

  • talk: OMI, Invisible Technology that will Revolutionize Supercomputing and AI; 3pm Thr Feb 14, ITE325

    Distinguished Lecture Series OMI: The Invisible Technology that will Revolutionize Supercomputing and AI Prof. Harm Peter Hofstee Delft University of Technology Distinguished Research Staff, IBM Austin Research Laboratory 3:00pm Thursday 14 February, 2019, ITE325, UMBC In this talk, we present some major trends in compute, memory/storage, and networking, and for each we will discuss how…

  • MD-AI Meetup: An AI Enabled Vision of the Future, 6-8pm 2/12, UMBC

    MD AI Meetup: An AI Enabled Vision of the Future The February MD AI meetup will be held at UMBC and features Kathleen Walch from Cognilytica, speaking on An AI Enabled Vision of the Future. The meetup starts at 6:00pm on Tuesday, February 12 in UC 312, UMBC with half an hour of networking time,…