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UMBC partners with five universities in the US, UK, and Japan to launch International Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
image: Representatives from the partnering institutions at UMBC. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC. UMBC partners with five universities in the US, UK, and Japan to launch International Cybersecurity Center of Excellence UMBC has partnered to create a global university network dedicated to securing critical systems against cyber threats: the International Cybersecurity Center of…
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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,…
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Masters of Professional Studies open house, Sat. April 6
Masters of Professional Studies open house, Sat. April 6 The Spring Open House for UMBC’s graduate Professional Programs, including cybersecurity and data science, takes place 9:30-11:30am on Saturday, April 6th on the first floor of PAHB. Students interested in exploring these graduate programs (degrees and/or certificates) are encouraged to register and attend. Current CSEE majors…
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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…
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Professor of the Practice or Lecturer Position, Engineering and Computing Education Program
Professor of the Practice or Lecturer PositionEngineering & Computing Education Program The Engineering and Computing Education Program in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) invites applications for a non-tenure track, full-time teaching position at the rank of Lecturer or Professor of the Practice beginning Fall…
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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…
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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,…
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Hour of Code 2018 at UMBC
The Hour Of Code event was held on December 5 and 6, 2018. One of the organizers, Fayo Ojo, described it as a focus on “computer science outreach within the UMBC community.” Around twenty students took advantage of the programming sessions; many others looked at the demonstrations. An Arduino workshop was ran by IEEE volunteers…
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talk: Noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing, 2:30pm Fri 10/12
UMBC Quantum Computation Seminar Noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing Dr. Omar Shehab, IonQ, Inc. & Univ of Maryland 2:30-3:30pm, Friday, 12 October 2018, ITE 325B, UMBC We are entering into the era of commercial quantum computing. I will talk about why making quantum computers is so hard. You will also know how the first generation programming…
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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…