Twitter’s planned shortening of all links via its t.co service is about to happen. The initial motivation was security, according to Twitter: “Twitter’s link service at http://t.co is used to...
September 2, 2010
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NOTE: The time of the CSEE graduate picnic has been changed to 1:30 to 3:30 to avoid overlapping with the UMBC Convocation. The UMBC ACM Student Chapter and CSEE Department are hosting a...
August 29, 2010
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1:12 PM
UMBC has established two new graduate programs in cybersecurity education, one leading to a MS degree in cybersecurity and another to a graduate certificate in cybersecurity strategy and policy....
August 28, 2010
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12:53 AM
Microsoft’s Bing team announced on their blog that that the Bing search engine is “powering Yahoo!’s search results” in the US and Canada for English queries. Yahoo also has a post on their...
August 25, 2010
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12:08 AM
Middle-earth dictionary attack
From http://abstrusegoose.com/296
August 24, 2010
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11:18 PM
Full Title: Researchers install PAC-MAN on Sequoia voting machine w/o breaking seals Here’s a new one for the DIY movement. Security researchers J. Alex Haldeman and Ariel Feldman demonstrated...
August 23, 2010
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Full Title: Google unemployment index estimates and predicts unemployment The Google Unemployment Index is an economic indicator based on queries sent to Google’s search engine related to...
August 20, 2010
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11:46 PM
The Maryland Clean Energy Technology Incubator (CETI) at bwtech@UMBC will host a seminar series this Fall with focus on the Smart Grid. The series will discuss the issues and opportunities and...
August 19, 2010
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5:55 AM
Analog computers were a hot idea — in the 1950s! But I find this intriguing because I’ve come around to the position that a lot of our human “intelligence” is the result of acquiring and using...
August 18, 2010
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12:39 PM
For the past twenty years, UMBC has had a large number of student majoring in information technology. Our Computer Science and Information Systems programs are among the largest on campus and...
August 18, 2010
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11:19 AM