CSEE Archived News
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UMBC Grand Challenge Symposium, 1-2:30 pm Friday 2/17, Library
UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program is designed for students from all majors who are interested in solving important societal problems. The program fosters a vibrant interdisciplinary community to help tackle the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) Grand Challenges, and gives students experiences and skills to create solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of…
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talk: Cybersecurity and Cellular Technology, 6pm 2/23 Shady Grove
UMBC Cybersecurity Program Cyber Talk Cybersecurity and Cellular Technology Joshua Franklin 6:00-8:00pm Thursday, 23 February 2017 The Universities at Shady Grove Building III (Camille Kendall Academic Center) Room 3241 9636 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 The UMBC Cybersecurity Program is proud to bring you Cyber Talk, a new speaker series that highlights special topics in…
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talk: Accountability and Data Privacy in the Life Cycle of Big Data
Towards End-to-End Security and Privacy: Accountability and Data Privacy in the Life Cycle of Big Data Taeho Jung Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology 11:00am Tuesday, 14 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC The advent of big data has given birth to numerous innovative life-enhancing applications, but the big data is often called as a…
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talk: Bayesianism and the Evidence Problem, 4pm 2/15
Philosophy Department Colloquium Bayesianism and the Evidence Problem Lisa Cassell University of Massachusetts/Amherst 4-6:00pm Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 456 Performing Arts & Humanities Bayesianism is a theory that gives us norms for how the degrees of belief we have in certain propositions — our “credences” — ought to hang together. For instance, it tells me…
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UMBC’s Cyber Scholars program stands out as a national model in “Diverse”
At a time when just 12 percent of information security analysts are black, Hispanic or Asian, and only 20 percent of information security analysts are women, successful student support programs like UMBC’s Cyber Scholars are poised to make a major impact on the field, suggests a new article in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.…
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Recruiting UMBC Students for the Grand Challenge Scholars Program , Fri. 2/17
UMBC undergraduates interested in the Grand Challenge Scholars Program are encouraged to attend a symposium and recruiting event at 1:00pm on Friday, February 17. The Grand Challenge Scholars Program is a program for undergraduates in all majors who are interested in thinking about big problems facing society, and how to solve them from broad,…
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CSEE faculty on securing the president’s smartphone and avoiding “cyber-fatigue”
Professor Anupam Joshi, chair of the CSEE Department and director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity With a new administration in the White House, securing the president’s smartphone is a national security priority, but exactly what steps are taken to secure the phone are not made public. In a new article in The Conversation, Anupam…
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Capital Area Women in Computing Celebration, 2/24-25
The Capital Area Women in Computing Celebration, sponsored by ACM-W, will be held at Georgetown University on Friday, February 24th and Saturday, February 25. The celebration will bring together women at the high school, undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels to promote the recruitment, retention, and progression of women in computing fields. The cost of student…
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UMBC places 7th at Pan-Am Team Chess Championship
UMBC Chess finished seventh overall at the 2016 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 27–30. The UMBC Chess A team finished in 10th place, with victories over the Texas Tech D team, the University of Oklahoma A team, the Columbia University B team, and the Arizona State University team. The…
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In Hour of Code, UMBC students give Baltimore youth hands-on intro to computing careers
At one table, thirteen Lakeland Elementary/Middle School students from Baltimore used tablets to create patterns of colorful shapes through code. At another station, the students composed music and played games on laptops by completing circuits connected to bananas and celery. The scene in UMBC’s Commons last Thursday was just what Gabrielle Salib ‘17, interdisciplinary studies,…
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