CSEE Archived News
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Join the UMBC Creative Coders program and teach kids how to code
Join the UMBC Creative Coders program and teach kids how to code The Creative Coders program connects middle school students from Arbutus Middle School with computing students at UMBC. Volunteers will work one-on-one with young students to teach them the fundamentals of computer science through game design. Volunteers may also get this service put on…
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talk: Nonnegative Binary Matrix Factorization on a D-Wave Quantum Annealer, 1:30 2/15
CHMPR Distinguished Lecture Series Nonnegative Binary Matrix Factorization with a D-Wave Quantum Annealer Dr. Daniel O’Malley Los Alamos National Laboratory 1:30 15 February 2018, ITE325, UMBC D-Wave quantum annealers represent a novel computational architecture and have attracted significant interest. Much of this interest has focused on the quantum behavior of D-Wave machines, and…
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Free Screenings of the AlphaGo movie at UMBC, 7-9pm Tue 2/13 and 2-4pm Fri 2/16
Free Screenings of the AlphaGo movie at UMBC UMBC will hold two free, public screenings of the award-winning documentary film AlphaGo, one 7:00-9:00pm Tuesday evening, February 13 and another 2:00-4:00pm Friday, February 16. Both will be held in lecture hall 5 (EMGR 027) in the UMBC Engineering Building (maps: campus, google). Each screening will be followed by…
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talk: Results of the 2018 SFS Research Study at UMBC, 12pm Fri 2/9, ITE228
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Results from the January 2018 SFS Research Study at UMBC Enis Golaszewski Department of Information Systems University of Maryland, Baltimore County 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 9 February 2018, ITE 228 (or nearby) January 22-26, 2018, UMBC SFS scholars worked collaboratively to analyze the security of a targeted aspect of the UMBC computer system. The…
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Global Game Jam, UMBC, 26-28 January 2018
Global Game Jam at UMBC For the 10th(!) year in a row, UMBC is the Baltimore host site for the Global Game Jam! Where: Engineering (ENG) building on the UMBC campus When: 5 PM January 26 – 5 PM January 28, 2018 Cost: Free, but advance registration is required (register at globalgamejam.org) What is a…
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Professors Banerjee & Robucci on developing wearable sensors for people with limited mobility
UMBC’s new Public Research for Public Good site features videos that highlight faculty research that provides real impact on the communities they are working with. In one, CSEE Professors Nilanjan Banerjee and Ryan Robucci discuss their research on developing wearable sensors to help people with limited mobility, allowing them to more easily interact with things…
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Congratulations to CSEE’s December 2017 graduates
Congratulations to CSEE’s 158 new alumni. They include ten Ph.D., 47 M.S., 29 M.P.S. and 72 B.S. graduates.
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UMBC faculty, alumni and partners discuss cybersecurity and industry challenges
UMBC faculty, alumni and corporate partners discuss cybersecurity and industry challenges Cybersecurity is regularly a headliner in the news, especially when personal information stored online has been compromised, whether through a breach, hack, or threat. On Thursday, December 7, UMBC hosted experts from industry and academia at the National Press Club to discuss the…
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Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft
Jennifer Sleeman receives AI for Earth grant from Microsoft Visiting Assistant Professor Jennifer Sleeman (Ph.D. ’17) has been awarded a grant from Microsoft as part of its ‘AI for Earth’ program. Dr. Sleeman will use the grant to continue her research on developing algorithms to model how scientific disciplines such as climate change evolve and…
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UMBC students win ‘Opioid Epidemic Challenge Award’ by America East for designing app for teens
UMBC students win Opioid Epidemic Challenge Award at HackAE hackathon Two students in the College of Engineering and Information Technology were recognized at HackAE, a 24-hour hackathon, earlier this month for developing an innovative app to help teens struggling with opioid issues. Agatha Turyahikayo ’21, computer science, and Gabrielle Watson ’21, information systems, won…
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