
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and IBM [IBM] announced plans Tuesday for a multi-year collaboration to create a new laboratory applying cognitive computing to cybersecurity.The Accelerated Cognitive Cybersecurity Laboratory (ACCL), to be placed in UMBC’s College of Engineering and Information Technology, will use analytics and machine learning to apply cognitive computing while also exploring specialized computer power optimized for the new intensive computing workloads.IBM said that with the ACCL the company and UMBC will explore new ways to use…