The women’s soccer team earned their first win of the season despite an early lead by American University.

Sunday afternoon, the UMBC Retrievers women’s soccer team traveled to Washington D.C. to take on the American University Eagles. The game quickly started out rough for the Retrievers after the Eagles scored the first goal of the game only two minutes into it. However, the Retrievers managed to rally and defeat American University 2-1.

It only took two minutes and 12 seconds for American University to grab an early lead. With an assist from freshman forward Yari Bradfield, senior midfielder Kelly Donovan was able to hit the left side of the net from the right wing.

As the end of the first half approached, so did UMBC’s comeback. The Retrievers managed to overtake the lead with back-to-back goals at the end of the first half, and the beginning of the second half.

There were only 13 seconds left on the clock when sophomore midfielder Gabby Boehmer scored her fourth goal in four games to tie the game. Sophomore Rachel Lyon set the goal up for Boehmer by sending the ball ahead. An American defender stumbled while trying to deflect the ball, setting Boehmer up with the ball outside the box giving her the go ahead goal.

The Retrievers continued their momentum charge into the second half, scoring the game winning goal 45 seconds into the second half. Senior back Bria Bass scored the game, winning her first goal since her freshman year, after throwing the ball in to senior back Amira Walcott who passed the ball back to Bass. Bass then shot from across the front of the net to the far post.

Before the start of the season, Head Coach Leslie Wray said, “I am confident that we can rely on our backline to be solid again this year. They have all played at a high level and, so far, what we’ve see is that they’ve been able to come in and be consistent for us back there, and they’ve really minimized the mistakes.”

Earlier in the week, UMBC fell to George Mason University in double overtime. The Retrievers had a 2-1 lead in the second half, but could not hold onto it and allowed George Mason to tie.

The Retrievers will next take on Appalachian State on Friday at 7:30 p.m., competing in the George Mason Tournament in Fairfax, Va.

Programming Robotic Agents: A Multi-tasking Teleo-Reactive Approach

Keith Clark, Imperial College London
University of Queensland, University New South Wales
joint work with Peter Robinson, University of Queensland

2:00pm Friday, 2 October 2015, ITE325b

We present a multi-threaded/multi-tasking message communicating robotic agent architecture in which the concurrently executing tasks are programmed in TeleoR, a major extension of Nilsson’s Teleo-Reactive Procedures (TR) guard ~> action rule language for robotic agents.

The rule guards query rapidly changing percept facts, and more slowly changing told and remembered facts, using fixed facts, relation and function rules (the agent’s knowledge) in the agent’s deductive BeliefStore. Its operational semantics makes the languages well suited to robot/robot or human/robot co-operative tasks.

TeleoR extends TR in:

• being typed and higher order,
• having a typed higher order LP/FP language, QuLog, for encoding BeliefStore knowledge,
• having extra forms of rules and actions, and o having task atomic procedures to control the deadlock and starvation free sharing of several robotic resources by concurrently executing tasks.

Its use is illustrated in the video at http://bit.ly/teleor. It is being used at UNSW to write the control program for a two armed Baxter robot working in co-operation with a person concurrently engaged in several assembly tasks.

Keith Clark is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Imperial College London, England and a Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland and the University New South Wales. He has lectured in both mathematics and computer science.

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The September 2, 2015 "Important" notice about the use of cloud services such as Box or Google may have led some to conclude both services are inherently and/or equally insecure under the University's data security classification below:

To clarify, Google is not approved for confidential data (levels 2 & 3 above). Since Google stores its data around the world and employs people around the world, ORPC and DoIT do not recommend that Google be used with export controlled data. By contrast, Box.com is approved for level 0, 1, and 2 data. This means that information such as SSNs and passport numbers can be stored in Box. While all Box.com data is currently stored in the USA, there is no guarantee that Box.com will always keep our data in the USA. There are also no guarantees that a foreign person will not be employed by Box.com and have an ability to access our data. Accordingly, Box.com is okay to use with data classified as level 0, 1, and 2, but we would would not recommend it for export controlled data. 

 

For more information, please consult UMBC’s policy for the protection of sensitive information as well as DoIT’s data use guidance for more information. You may also wish to consult with Mark Cather, UMBC's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), who can be reached at 410.455.3783 or mark.cather@umbc.edu.

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CSEE chair Anupam Joshi was interviewed and quoted in a news article What could derail the wearables revolution that appears in the current issue of Nature (v525n7567). The piece discusses on two issues caused by the rapid uptake of wearable technology: “finding improved ways to transmit data to and from wearables, and keeping all that information safe.”

The article described research on FaceBlock, a prototype application developed in UMBC’s Ebiquity Lab that can enhance personal privacy in environments with wearable devices like Google Glass.

“It’s a cliché that whenever there’s a new technology we start talking about Huxley and A Brave New World, but with wearables — and what’s loosely termed the Internet of Things — we truly are entering into a new era, and we have to start thinking of these issues,” says Anupam Joshi, head of the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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In another high-profile incident, the introduction of Google Glass headsets two years ago triggered concerns that users would capture images of passers-by without their knowledge. Researchers at the Center for Cybersecurity took this opportunity to apply their work on computer codes that enforce privacy policies. They built the wryly named FaceBlock app, which blocks out the faces of people who have requested privacy from photographs taken by Google Glass. But for this to work, a Google Glass owner would have to opt in by installing the app. So the only way for such a system to reliably provide privacy would be for manufacturers to make it standard and implement it with dedicated hardware, says Joshi. “Let’s say that Google was to build in a feature like this into every Google Glass so that it would automatically obey these kinds of commands — then it would work.”

More information on the FaceBlock prototype and related UMBC research on privacy for wearable technology can be found in these papers.

• Roberto Yus, Primal Pappachan, Prajit Kumar Das, Eduardo Mena, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, FaceBlock: Privacy-Aware Pictures for Google Glass, 12th Int. Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, (demonstation paper), ACM, June 2014.
• Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus, Prajit Kumar Das, Tim Finin, Eduardo Mena, and Anupam Joshi, A Semantic Context-Aware Privacy Model for FaceBlock, Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web – Policy and Technology, held at Int. Semantic Web Conf., Oct. 2014.
• Roberto Yus, Primal Pappachan, Prajit Das, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi and Eduardo Mena, Semantics for Privacy and Shared Context, Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web-Policy and Technology, held at Int. Semantic Web Conf., Oct. 2014.
• Prajit Kumar Das, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi, Energy efficient sensing for managing privacy on smartphones, Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web – Policy and Technology, held at 2013 Int. Semantic Web Conf., Oct. 2013.
• Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, and Pramod Jagtap, Privacy control in smart phones using semantically rich reasoning and context modeling, IEEE Workshop on Semantic Computing and Security, pp. 82-85, May 2012

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UMBC Magazine answers alumni questions about True Grit, secret campus tunnels, football, Hillcrest and more…

Even though UMBC is a fairly young university, it still has mysteries and legends and stories of its founding. Why does UMBC look the way it looks? Why is a Chesapeake Bay Retriever our mascot? Why don’t we have a football team? What was Hillcrest? And what about those tunnels under
the university?

YOU ASKED. WE ANSWERED.

• Why was the Hillcrest Building torn down? What was the history behind this structure? —Perry Alexander ’91 
• The silo on UMBC Boulevard suggests a connection between the university and farming. What was that property before it became UMBC? —Mary Slicher ’73 
• Does UMBC have secret underground tunnels? Why? —Bennett Moe ’88 
• Is it true that you have to run around the Loop Road to get rid of the calories in one donut? I heard this when I was a freshman 20 years ago. —Renate Smith ’98 
• What’s the real story behind True Grit? Why was a Chesapeake Bay retriever chosen as the school’s mascot? —Zozscha Bomhardt ’93
• Why were UMBC dormitories named after bodies of water? —Carla Jarvis ’91 
• Who was the most famous performer or group to play a concert at UMBC? —Eric Messner ’01 
• Why does UMBC not have a football team? Did the university ever consider having one? —Lisa Price ’87 
• What was the first computer on campus? How did UMBC create a nationally-known reputation in the field? —Matt Basch ’08, M.S. ’10 
• Who was the first student to register for classes at UMBC? How many students were in the first graduating class in 1970? —Felice Pinckney ’92 
• Why was the Conservation and Environmental Research Area (CERA) and its trail created? – Delana Gregg’04, instructional systems development 
• When did UMBC become a national college chess powerhouse? – Valerie Kilgallon ’87, English 
• What is the oldest standing building on campus? – Sara Shannon ’05, social work 
• How did it come to be that UMBC develop a class schedule with a “free hour” in the middle of the day? – Donna Lewis ’87, English