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| • | Jack
Minker, Professor Emeritus,
has been awarded the 2011 Heinz R. Pagels Award. The award is given to scientists for their contributions to
safeguard or advance the human rights of scientists throughout
the world. The award will be presented in September by the New York Academy of Sciences.
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| • | Phil Resnik and
Ben Bederson (along with Chris Callison-Burch of Johns Hopkins) have been awarded a
Google Research Award for their project "Translate the World: A Unified Framework for
Crowdsourcing Translation". The award facilitates interaction between Google and academia and comes with an award of $150,000.
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| • | Ching Teo and Yezhou Yang, students of Yiannis Aloimonos and Hal Duame have won one of eight Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships based on their proposal “Robots need language: A computational model for integration of vision, language and action”
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| • | A recent news story on WAMU 88.5 featured Leafsnap, an electronic field guide developed by Professor Dave Jacobs along with researchers from Columbia University and the Smithsomian Institution. Leafsnap uses visual software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves and includes the trees of New York City and Washington, DC.
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| • | UMIACS is featured in the latest edition of Research@Maryland, published by the University of Maryland Division of Research.
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| • | Professor Dianne O'Leary was the 2011 Norbert Wiener Lecturer for Tufts University. From March 30 — April 1, she delivered the three lectures, one for a very broad audience, one at the level of a colloquium, and one more specialized in mathematics. Past Wiener Lecturers have included Persi Diaconis, Nick Trefethen, James Yorke, Margaret Wright, Sigurdur Helgason and Jeff Weeks.
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| • | Professor Ben Shneiderman was interviewed for the New York Times article on information visualization, "When the Data Struts Its Stuff." "The purpose of visualization", he said, "is insight, not pictures." Dr. Shneiderman also discussed the risks, benefits, and privacy implications of visualizations of personal data.
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| • | Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi has won a 2011 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award for his proposal on "Efficient Algorithms for Strategic Problems in Network Design"
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| • | UMD student poster wins at AAAS 2011 Student Poster Competition. The poster, entitled "Using Monolingual Crowds to Improve Translation", was presented by Yakov Kronrod (Linguistics), and featured work by Yakov, Chang Hu (CS), Olivia Buzek (CS and Linguistics undergrad), and Alexander J. Quinn (CS), and was the winning poster in the Math, Technology, and Engineering category.
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| • | MonoTrans2, software developed by Ben Bederson and Philip Resnik, was referenced in a recent article in New Scientist. Dr. Resnik and his former student Adam Lopez were also quoted in the article on crowdsourcing translations.
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| • | Professor Philip Resnik was interviewed by the DC ABC news affiliate, WJLA, before the IBM supercomputer Watson took on Ken Jennings in Jeopardy!
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| • |  Professor Ben Shneiderman was presented with the prestigious Miles Conrad Award on February 28, 2011 at the NFAIS 53rd Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Shneiderman delivered the Miles Conrad Lecture on "Social Discovery in an Information Abundant World".
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| • | Professor Uzi Vishkin has received worldwide press coverage following the publication of his article "Using Simple Abstraction to Reinvent Computing for Parallelism" in the January 2011 edition of the Communications of the ACM. His interview has been picked up by InfoWorld, CIO India, Computerworld UK, PC Advisor, PC World, Techworld, and many others.
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| • | Science Watch has recognized UMD to be amongst the top two in the world (with Harvard) in cholera-related research, based on Rita Colwell's pioneering work.
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| • | Hanan Samet has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of his seminal and foundational work in spatial data structures and reasoning.
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