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| December 2002 |
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The fall 2002 issue of the UMIACS newsletter InterConnections
is available. |
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An InfoWorld
article about surveillance technologies features Larry
Davis. |
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Rama Chellappa
has been selected as a 2003-2004 Distinguished
Scholar-Teacher. |
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Ben Bederson's
voting technologies research is featured in USA
Today, and on Newschannel
8, WMAR,
and WBAL. |
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A
Baltimore Sun article focuses on Ben
Bederson's research into high-tech voting. |
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New
Scientist reviews Ben
Shneiderman's new book Leonardo's Laptop. |
| November 2002 |
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TimeSearcher,
a tool for interactive querying and exploration of time-series data,
is now available at no charge for academic and non-commercial use. |
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Ben Shneiderman
appears on NPR's "The
Todd Mundt Show" to talk about universal usability. |
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Ben Bederson
shares his insight into electronic voting with the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution. |
| October 2002 |
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A Washington
Post column on information visualization mentions the HCIL's
research into zoomable user interfaces. |
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Usability
News reports on a talk by Ben
Shneiderman at Gresham College in London. |
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A Time
magazine article mentions Bill
Arbaugh's discovery of wireless security weaknesses. |
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James
Hendler was awarded the "Exceptional Civilian Service Medal"
by the US Air Force. |
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School
Library Journal reports on the HCIL's International Children's
Digital Library project. |
| September 2002 |
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An IEEE
Spectrum article on electronic voting cites Ben
Bederson's research with touch-screen machines beginning to be
used in Maryland. |
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A PC
World article refers readers to Bill
Arbaugh's Web site for information on wireless security. |
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UMIACS research highlighted in President Mote's
State of the Campus 2002-2003 Address. |
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HCIL Director Ben
Bederson co-authors a letter
to the editor in the Washington Post about Maryland's new
touch-screen voting machines. |
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The September issue of ACM's interactions
has an excerpt from Ben Shneiderman's
new book, Leonardo's Laptop, as its cover story. |
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A Cox
News Service article about Florida's new voting system quotes
HCIL Director Ben Bederson. |
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Bill Arbaugh
comments on the 802.1x wireless security specification in an
eWeek article. |
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Ben Shneiderman
is featured in a story about Homeland
Security in the Information Age on NPR's "Morning Edition."
|
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UMIACS and the Department of Computer Science announce
the Fall 2002 Distinguished
Lecture Series inaugurating the Computer Science Instructional
Center. |
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Three projects led by UMIACS faculty receive IBM
Shared University Research awards. PIs for the projects are Jeff
Hollingsworth, Doug
Oard, and Ben Bederson. |
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HCIL researchers
received a three-year award from the Institute
of Museum and Library Service to support their work with the International
Children's Digital Library. |
| August 2002 |
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Jonathan Katz's discovery of a vulnerability in PGP
encryption software is featured in an eWeek
article. Similar stories have appeared in the Wall Street Journal,
and AP and Reuters newswires. |
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A Capital
News Service story about Maryland's new touch-screen voting machines
notes concerns raised in the research of Ben
Bederson and colleagues. |
|
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InfoWorld,
eWeek,
and GRIDToday
report on the Microsoft Faculty Summit 2002, noting Ben Bederson's
demonstration and UM joining the Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory
Board. |
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Bill Arbaugh
comments on Microsoft's Palladium security architecture in an eWeek
article. |
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Ben Bederson
and Bill Gates demonstrated DateLens
during Gates' keynote speech at the Microsoft
Research Faculty Summit 2002.  |
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The education
column of IEEE Pervasive Computing features Liviu
Iftode and a “Network-Centric Systems” seminar he led
at UM in spring 2002. |
| July 2002 |
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Liviu Iftode
was awarded an NSF
CAREER award to investigate the impact of new I/O technologies
on the operating system architecture of network servers. |
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The papers of Ben
Shneiderman are now available to researchers at the University
Libraries' Archives
and Manuscripts Department.
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The new journal Information Visualization names
Ben Shneiderman its Advisory
Editor and Ben Bederson
to its editorial board. The
debut issue features articles from both researchers. |
|
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Allison Druin speaks with the Washington
Post about how the Internet has changed education. |
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The Spring 2002 issue
of the UMIACS newsletter InterConnections is available. |
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A Washington Technology cover
story about breakthrough technologies features the work of Anupam
Joshi. |
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Three new UMIACS projects have been selected in the
competitive NSF small ITR award
program. PIs for the projects are Ben
Bederson, Nail Gumerov, and Louiqa
Raschid. |
| June 2002 |
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Philip Resnik
discusses machine translation in an Associated Press article,
which has run across the country, including USA Today, the
Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Jose Mercury News. |
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HCIL's
visualization tool Treemap
3.2 is now available free for personal or educational use. |
|
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A Raleigh
News & Observer column highlights visualization research in
the HCIL as an example of why the lab is "in the vanguard of
computer design." |
|
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Yasser
Yacoob's research in facial recognition is featured in a Reuters
news wire article. |
| May 2002 |
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Bill
Arbaugh comments on retailer Best Buy's wireless security problems
in an internet.com
article. |
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UMIACS researchers receieve another NSF ITR
Award. The project, led by Ramani
Duraiswami, will focus on customizable audio user interfaces for
the visually impaired. |
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Ben
Bederson received a gift from Microsoft
Research to support his research in mobile device interfaces and
.NET. |
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Amy
Weinberg and David
Doermann talk about machine translation on NPR's "All
Things Considered." |
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Ben
Bederson co-authors Washington Post op-ed
about electronic voting in Maryland. |
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Ben
Shneiderman, Ben
Bederson, and the HCIL
featured in a Washington
Post article. They also joined Allison
Druin for a discussion on washingtonpost.com's Live
Online. |
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Bonnie
Dorr received the Postdoctoral Alumni Award and Edna Walker won
Outstanding Non-Exempt Employee Award at the CMPS Academic Festival. |
|
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Save the date—HCIL 19th Annual Symposium
and Open House to be held May 30 & 31, 2002. |
| April 2002 |
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The
International Children's Digital Library, a new HCIL project,
wins $3 million NSF Information Technology Research Award. |
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Ben
Shneiderman talks about HCI on National Public Radio's "All
Things Considered." |
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Sarit
Kraus has been elected as an AAAI
Fellow. |
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UM departments are highly ranked in the U.S.
News 2003 Graduate School Rankings, including Computer Science
ranked 12th in the nation. |
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Rama
Chellappa is the Maryland PI for the winning team on a new DoD
MURI
Award. |
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Bill
Arbaugh has won a National Science Foundation CAREER
Award. |
| March 2002 |
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Doug
Oard and Philip
Resnik have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with
tenure, while Associate Professor Amitabh
Varshney has been granted tenure. Also, Louiqa
Raschid has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor. |
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James
Hendler featured in BusinessWeek
article about the Semantic Web. |
| February 2002 |
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BusinessWeek
covers Bill Arbaugh's
investigations into security and wireless networks. |
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UM demonstrates its technological expertise through
CASE
Media Fellowship. Many UMIACS faculty participated, including
Allison Druin
and the HCIL. |
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Bill Arbaugh's
research on wireless security featured in a new InfoWorld
article and on CNN. |
| January 2002 |
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UMIACS Newsletter Fall 2001 (Adobe PDF format, 800KB)
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Uzi
Vishkin presented invited talks at the Intel Microprocessor Research
Lab and at Microsoft Research. |
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Vic Basili
ranked as the second top scholar internationally in the field of Systems
and Software Engineering in a study appearing in the Journal
of Systems and Software. |
Highlights from 2001 |
