CSEE Archived News
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Rick Forno discusses social media monitoring during Baltimore riots
Rick Forno, Graduate Program Director for Cybersecurity and Assistant Director of UMBC's Center for Cybersecurity spoke with the Baltimore Sun and Technical.ly Baltimore recently about hacktivism in the Baltimore riots and a recent ZeroFox report that analyzed social media to identify prominent activists, potential…
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UMBC CWIT Bits and Bytes program cited in CNN article on women in computing
An article on CNN, Why women in tech came to a 'Halt', uses AMC Halt and Catch Fire television series to illustrate some of challenges in keeping more women in computing majors and careers. The article mentions the UMBC CWIT Bits and Bytes program as one example of an effort to address this. "Even with…
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CSEE Prof. Curtis Menyuk wins Humboldt Research Award
CSEE professor Curtis Menyuk was recently awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award. This award is a significant honor, and comes with 60,000 euros in funding to support research in with German research collaborators. The Humbolt Research Award award is given to recognize the lifetime research achievments of academics "whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or…
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UMBC offers cybersecurity research special topics course in Fall 2015
The UMBC CSEE department will offer a special research-oriented special topics course on Cybersecurity in Fall 2015 involving a mix of undergraduate and graduate students.
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UMBC receives DoD grant to develop cybersecurity education tools
CSEE faculty Alan Sherman and Dhananjay Phatak and Education Professor Linda Oliva received a research grant from the Department of Defense to create educational assessment tools to improve the teaching of cybersecurity. The one-year funded project is a collaboration with Geoffrey Herman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The research is being carried out…
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MS defense: Lianjie Sun, Assessing Confidence in Relation Extraction, 2pm 7/23
Lianjie Sun will defend his MS thesis on 'Assessing Confidence in Relation Extraction Systems'; at 2pm on Thr. July 23 in ITE325b at UMBC.
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CSEE Prof. Jian Chen receives grant for health informatics data visualization
UMBC CSEE professor Jian Chen received an award from DoD to to develop new techniques to visualize health informatics data in collaboration with esearchers at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
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Rick Forno discusses OPM data breach with Risky Business podcast
Last week, Rick Forno, CSEE's Cybersecurity Graduate Program Director and Assistant Director of UMBC's Center for Cybersecurity, joined Australian security journalist Pat Gray for a lengthy discussion on the Risky Business podcast about the OPM data breach, local reactions, and possible US cybersecurity responses to this significant and far-reaching security incident.
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DEFCON Talk: John Seymour on Quantum Classification of Malware, 3pm 7/17
This talk was accepted for DEFCON 2015 in Las Vegas later this month. However, for those interested here in the UMBC community, John will conduct an informal preview of his talk on Friday 7/17 at 3:00PM in ITE 366 (DREAM Lab). "Quantum" Classification of Malware John Seymour, UMBC 3:00pm Friday 17 July 2015, ITE 366…
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CSEE PhD student Kavita Krishnaswamy interviewed by Dr. Renetta Tull
CSEE Ph.D. student Kavita Krishnaswamy is interviewed by Dr. Renetta Tull, UMBC Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development and Postdoctoral Affairs.
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