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Born in Tamil Nadu, India and raised in Columbia, MD, Kavita got her B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics. In 2001, Kavita joined UMBC's graduate program in Computer Science to pursue her...

Multi-antenna Spectrum Sensing: From GLRTs to LMPITs Dr. Javier Via University of Cantabria, Spain 2:00pm Friday 22 June 2012, ITE 325b Spectrum Sensing represents one of the critical...

MS Thesis Defense An Operational Study of DNSSEC and its Practical Application in Establishing a Secure PKI Framework Colin Roby 4:00pm 19 June 2012, ITE 325b With the recent completion...

    UMBC's sister school to the south, the University of Maryland, College Park just announced plans for a new honors program in Cybersecurity called Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for...

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda. If you have a LinkedIn account, you probably noticed the news that 6.5 million of their passwords were leaked. While the passwords were encrypted, it's still a major...

The Second Baltimore Hackathon will be held this weekend, starting at 6:00pm Friday June 8 and ending at 6:00pm Sunday. At a hackathon people get together to build a hardware or software project...

Should an introductory Computer Science course fall within the cadre of General Education Requirements (GEP)—like Math, Science, and English—that are required of all undergrads? According to a...

Blockly is new web-based, graphical programming language developed by Google. It's graphical in the style of Scratch in that you create a program not as a linguistic object, but by selecting and...

  Our department is a member of the Computing Research Association, which started in 1972 as a organization of US PhD granting CS departments and has grown to more than 220 North American...

  A small study by the Brookings Institution looked at the percentage of people age 25 and over in the 100 largest U.S. metro areas who held at least a bachelor’s degree in 2010, versus in...