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If you're interested in what's going on in Baltimore's gaming scene, check out Baltimoregamer.com. The site covers local gaming events in the Baltimore and D.C. area, as well as developments in...

  The 2012 Maryland Cyber Challenge (MDC3) will be held this fall with qualification rounds in September and the finals at the Cyber-Maryland Conference in the Baltimore Convention Center on...

In a recent essay in the Baltimore Sun, James M. Purtilo, a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, outlines the myriad ways that Maryland is...

(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) "Despite the growing numbers of successful women in once male-dominated professions like medicine and law, computer science remains overwhelmingly a boys...

UMBC CSEE Professor Penny Rheingans received an NSF research award, Transforming the Freshman Experience of Computing Majors, to develop and evaluate an innovative first-year seminar for computing...

Professor Marie desJardins (PI) along with co-principal investigators Professor Penny Rheingans and Dr. Susan Martin received a research award worth $200,000 from the National Science Foundation's...

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...

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...

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...

MS Thesis Defense Numerical Integration Techniques for Volume Rendering Preeti Bindu 10:00am Monday, 7 May 2012, ITE 352, UMBC Medical image visualization often relies on 3D volume...