CSEE Archived News
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Anupam Joshi responds to SOTU remarks on cybersecurity
Last week President Barack Obama gave his annual State of the Union Address. Not surprisingly, among the things his address touched on was cybersecurity. CSEE’s Professor Anupam Joshi, director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity, was one of nine academics invited by The Conversation to give reactions to particular items mention in the address. His…
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Two tenure-track positions for Computer Science at UMBC
The UMBC CSEE department has two tenure-track faculty positions for its Computer Science program and is especially interested in candidates whose research areas include security and data analytics and related fields. Apply by January 15, 2015.
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The Great Escape: online AI Game programming contest
The Great Escape is an online international multiplayer coding contest being held for 2 weeks from February 6th starting at 12:00 pm EST to February 20th at 5:00 pm EST. The Great Escape will be a thrilling multiplayer Artificial Intelligence Battle, where students will have to: Program the best bot to escape a maze by trapping…
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Phd proposal: Zhang on Brain Network Visualization Techniques
PhD Dissertation Proposal Design and Validation of Brain Network Visualization Techniques: A Unified Approach Guohao Zhang Time and Place: 8:00-10:00am, 22 Jan 22 2015, ITE325 We propose a unified approach to understand why and how visualization works, motivated by scientists’ difficulties in obtaining insights from increasingly complex data that involves multi-modality brain networks from structural…
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Baltimore-area Hadoop Users Group Meetup, 1st meeting 2015-02-19
Don Miner and Brandon Wilson have started a Baltimore-area Meetup group for Hadoop users to discuss Hadoop technology and use cases. The first meeting is 7-9:30pm Thur. Feb. 19 at AOL/Advertising.com, 1020 Hull St, Baltimore.
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Join the 2015 Global Game Jam at UMBC, 23-25 January
UMBC is the Baltimore host site for the 2015 Global Game Jam, which will take place over 48 hours on 23-25 January 2015.
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UMBC Places 3rd at MHacks
Two of UMBC’s regular hackathon participants took 3rd place at MHacks, a competitive 1000 student hackathon at the University of Michigan this past weekend! CSEE students Michael Bishoff (President, HackUMBC) and Sekar Kulandaivel created a haptic feedback suit that makes virtual reality more immersive. To do this, the team created 12 vibrating modules that are…
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Rick Forno speaks @ Schmoocon '15
CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno was a panelist for Schmoocon 2015’s closing plenary session on January 18 in Washington, DC. The session, entitled “Get Off My Lawn: Examining Change through the Eyes of The Old Guard” brought together four longtime security practitioners to discuss in a free-flowing (if not somewhat curmudgeonly) manner the state of Internet…
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talk: Measuring Visual Perceptions of Security, 10am Fri 1/16, UMBC
Professor Adam J. Aviv of the United States Naval Academy will give a talk on ‘Measuring Visual Perceptions of Security’ at 10am on Fri. Jan 16 in the UMBC Information Systems Dept., room 459 in the ITE building.
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Internship with educational nonprofit developing game
Innovate Our World, an Ellicott City, Maryland educational nonprofit, is seeking one or more avid, experienced gamers who can help us on the business side to bring our new Moon game from tech demo status to a successful launch on Steam. The upcoming 8th Continent game will give players a number of entertaining scenarios racing,…
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