Our MURI grant gets some press
TweetA UMBC led team recently won a MURI award from DoD to work on “Assured Information Sharing Lifecycle”. It is an interesting mix of work on new security models, policy driven security systems,...
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Twitterment, domain grabbing, and grad students who could have been rich!
TweetHere at Ebiquity, we’ve had a number of great grad students. One of them, Akshay Java, hacked out a search engine for twitter posts around early April last year, and named it twitterment. He...
View ArticleNRC study questions use of datamining for counterterrorism
TweetThe National Research Council released a report on the effectiveness of collecting and mining personal data, such as such as phone, medical, and travel records or Web sites visited, as a tool for...
View ArticleDHS wants to mine social media for terrorism relatated data
TweetUSA Today reports (Feds may mine blogs for terrorism clues) that the US Department of Homeland Security wants to use data-mining technology to search blogs and Internet message boards to find...
View ArticleBig (linked?) data
TweetThe Data Evolution blog has an interesting post that asks Is Big Data at a tipping point?. It’s suggests that we may be approaching a tipping point in which large amounts of online data will be...
View ArticleWolfram Alpha: an alternative to Google, the Semantic Web and Cyc?
TweetThere’s been a lot of interest in Wolfram Alpha in the past week, starting with a blog post from Steve Wolfram, Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming!, in which he described his approach to building a system...
View ArticleKaggle aims to host data-driven machine learning competitions
TweetKaggle is a site for data-related competitions in machine learning, statistics and econometrics. Companies, researchers, government and other organizations will be able to post their modeling...
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Recorded Future analyses streaming Web data to predict the future
TweetRecorded Future is a Boston-based startup with backing from Google and In-Q-Tel uses sophisticated linguistic and statistical algorithms to extract time-related information from streams of Web...
View ArticleSix lessons for the age of machines
TweetOn the eve of the big Jeopardy! match, Peter Norvig’s opinion piece in the New York Post (!) today, The Machine Age looks at AI’s progress over the past sixty years and lays out six surprising...
View ArticleICWSM 2011 Data Challenge with 3TB of social media data
TweetThe Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is holding a new data challenge using a new dataset from that includes about three TB of social media data collected by Spinn3r...
View ArticleUS Government announces new open data policy
TweetThe White House blog announced a new open data policy for government-held data. “President Obama signed an Executive Order directing historic steps to make government-held data more accessible to...
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Free copy of Mining Massive Datasets
Tweet A free PDF version of the new second edition of Mining of Massive Datasets by Anand Rajaraman, Jure Leskovec and Jeffey Ullman is available. New chapters on mining large graphs, dimensionality...
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Taming Wild Big Data
Tweet Jennifer Sleeman and Tim Finin, Taming Wild Big Data, AAAI Fall Symposium on Natural Language Access to Big Data, Nov. 2014. Wild Big Data is data that is hard to extract, understand, and use due...
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TweetIn this week’s Ebiquity meeting (10am Wed Nov. 12), Jennifer Sleeman will talk about “Taming Wild Big Data”. Wild Big Data is data that is hard to extract, understand, and use due to its...
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Using Data Analytics to Detect Anomalous States in Vehicles
Tweet Sandeep Nair, Sudip Mittal and Anupam Joshi, Using Data Analytics to Detect Anomalous States in Vehicles, Technical Report, December 2015. Vehicles are becoming more and more connected, this...
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talk: Topic Modeling for Analyzing Document Collection, 11am Mon 3/16
Tweet Topic Modeling for Analyzing Document Collection Mitsunori Ogihara Computer Science, University of Miami 11:00am Monday, 16 May 2016, ITE 325b, UMBC Topic modeling (in particular, Latent...
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new paper: App behavioral analysis using system calls
Prajit Kumar Das, Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin, App behavioral analysis using system calls, MobiSec: Security, Privacy, and Digital Forensics of Mobile Systems and Networks, IEEE Conference on Computer...
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UMBC Data Science Graduate Program Starts Fall 2017
UMBC Data Science Graduate Programs UMBC’s Data Science Master’s program prepares students from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds for careers in data science. In the core courses, students...
View ArticleSix lessons for the age of machines
On the eve of the big Jeopardy! match, Peter Norvig’s opinion piece in the New York Post (!) today, The Machine Age looks at AI’s progress over the past sixty years and lays out six surprising lessons...
View ArticleICWSM 2011 Data Challenge with 3TB of social media data
The Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media is holding a new data challenge using a new dataset from that includes about three TB of social media data collected by Spinn3r...
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