Category: Undergraduate
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Morgan Madeira: Analyzing Social Media Data
Analyzing Social Media Data Morgan Madeira Junior, Computer Science Social media has increasingly become an outlet for expression for a large part of our society. Literature suggests that analyzing data from these sites can lead to improvements in areas such as health-care and search-ad targeting. Users of these sites often associate with many other users…
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Panel Discussion: Graduate School: Before, During, and After
10am Mon 4/16: A panel discussion on Graduate School: Before, During, and After, with Dr. Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech), Dr. Jeffrey Forbes (National Science Foundation), Mr. James MacGlashan (UMBC CSEE Ph.D. Candidate) and Ms. Alyson Young (UMBC HCC Ph.D. student).
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Work at Next Century Corporation
Next Century Corporation is looking for prospective software engineers to join their team as interns and full time employees. The local technology company was named one of Baltimore Magazine’s “Best Places to Work” in 2011. “Next Century is driven by something far deeper than software, hardware, and dollars and cents,” says the company’s website. “We…
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Virginia Tech offers Cognitive Communications research experience this summer
Rising sophomore, junior, and senior undergraduate students interested in cognitive radios and wireless networking might want to take a look at Virginia Tech’s Cognitive Communications Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). This summer, the program will enlist ten undergraduate students for a nine-week research program that explores problems related to software defined radios, cognitive radios, wireless…
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2012 Google Summer of Code Applications open March 26
Apply to the 2012 Google Summer of Code 3/26 — 4/6 to earn $5000 coding for an open source project.
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UMBC Cyberdawgs are recruiting
UMBC's Cyber Defense Team is looking for new members. This semester the team competed in the Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship. In this competition, each team defended a mock corporate network against a horde of professional hackers in a fast-paced, real-time event over the course of two days. These competitions are a great way to network…
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Baltimore to host 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
The 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference will take place 3-6 October at the Baltimore Convention Center.
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He dances, he climbs, he teaches Computer Science: Meet Max
Meet Max, a Teaching Assistant who loves climbing mountains, swing dancing, and Artificial Intelligence. “I’ve never been bored in my life,” says Maksym Morawski (call him Max), a Computer Science graduate student who spends most of his free time scaling mountains. Originally from Silver Spring, Max moved to Baltimore in 2006 to study Computer Science…
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Google Android Camp program
Google is running an Android Camp this summer where 30 selected students will attend an all-expense-paid program at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, July 22-28. The camp will include an interactive and collaborative curriculum focusing on a practical introduction to developing applications for Android and will explore the concepts behind Android, the framework for…
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Stripe capture the flag wargame
Stripe, a San Francisco startup with an online-payment system, is hosting a simple online cybersecurity capture the flag (CTF) challenge. See their blog post for the details. “The hardest part of writing secure code is learning to think like an attacker. For example, every programmer is told to watch out for SQL injections, but it’s…