CSEE Archived News
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National Press Club Event: Rise to Dominance of Cybersecurity Challenges
National Press Club Event: Rise to Dominance of Cybersecurity Challenges Join UMBC and industry and government experts for a panel on how cybersecurity touches our everyday lives and how journalists can engage a wide range of readers in cybersecurity news. This panel will touch on topics ranging from online commerce to national conversations about…
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QuHacks hackathon for high school and middle school students seeks volunteers
Volunteer at hackathon for high school and middle school students Maryland high school and middle school students who are interested in computing will come to UMBC for an all-day hackathon in the UMBC Commons on Saturday, December 9. The organizers are recruiting UMBC students who would like to help with the hackathon between 9:30am and…
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talk: PKI in the Defense Information Systems Agency, 12-1 Fri 12/1, ITE228
UMBC Cyber Defense Lab PKI in the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Phil Scheffler Chief Engineer – Joint Enablers ID2 – Cyber Development Directorate Defense Information Systems Agency 12:00–1pm, Dec 1, 2017, ITE 228 As a combat support agency within the Department of Defense, DISA faces unlimited challenges with Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI). Chief Engineer…
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talk: Brief Introduction to Creative AI Applications and Common Network Architectures, 1pm Fri 12/1
ACM Student Chapter A Brief Introduction to Creative AI Applications and Common Network Architectures Hang Gao, Ph.D. student, UMBC 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 1 December 2017, ITE 217, UMBC Recent advance and success in artificial intelligence technologies, e.g., deep learning, has drawn heavy investment from both universities and industries, leading to the emergence of many applications and…
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UMBC student Naomi Mburu receives Rhodes Scholarship
UMBC student Naomi Mburu receives Rhodes Scholarship Naomi Mburu ’18, chemical engineering, is the first student in UMBC history to receive the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She is one of 32 students from across the United States to receive this prestigious honor for the 2018 year. Several UMBC students have been finalists for the Scholarship in…
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CSEE Professor Marie desJardins interviewed for Voices in AI podcast
Voices in AI – Episode 20: A Conversation with Marie desJardins Byron Reese interviewed UMBC CSEE Professor Marie desJardins as part of his Voices in AI podcast series on Gigaom. In the episode, they talk about the Turing test, Watson, autonomous vehicles, and language processing. Visit the Voices in AI site to listen to the…
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talk: Jim Kurose (NSF) An Expanding and Expansive View of Computing, 1pm Mon 11/20
Distinguished Lecture An Expanding and Expansive View of Computing Jim Kurose Assistant Director, National Science Foundation Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering 1:00-2:15pm Monday, 20 November 2017, ITE325b, UMBC Advances in computer and information science and engineering are providing unprecedented opportunities for research and education. My talk will begin with an overview of…
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talk: An Introduction to Quantum Cryptography, Noon Friday 11/17, ITE231
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents An Introduction to Quantum Cryptography: Or, How Alice Outwits Eve Sam Lomonaco, CSEE, UMBC 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 17 November 2017, ITE 231, UMBC Alice and Bob wish to communicate without the archvillainess Eve eavesdropping on their conversation. Alice decides to take two college courses, one in cryptography, the other in…
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talk: A Practitioner’s Introduction to Deep Learning, 1pm Fri 11/17
ACM Tech Talk Series A Practitioner’s Introduction to Deep Learning Ashwin Kumar Ganesan, PhD student 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 17 November 2017, ITE325, UMBC In recent years, Deep Neural Networks have been highly successful at performing a number of tasks in computer vision, natural language processing and artificial intelligence in general. The remarkable performance gains have led…
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Volunteer to help in UMBC’s Hour of Code events, Dec 4 and 5
Volunteer to help in UMBC’s Hour of Code events, Dec 4 and 5 Hour of Code is a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science using a one-hour coding activity. The one hour coding activity is designed to show that anyone can learn the basics of coding, and to create a more inclusive computer science community.…
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