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Professor Ben Shneiderman, introducing Technology-Mediated Social Participation.
Taped 3 December, 2010.

  Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World by Derek Hansen, Ben Shneiderman, Marc A. Smith.
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  Handbook of Signal Processing Systems Editors: Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Ed F. Deprettere, Rainer Leupers, Jarmo Takala
 
  Jack Minker receives 2011 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights Award
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  Leafsnap’s creators receive the 2011 Edward O. Wilson Pioneer Award
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  Next XMT desktop supercomputer prototype could provide a solution to common programming difficulties
 
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Carl Kingsford received one of 12 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards in evolutionary and computational molecular biology. These fellowships are given to early-career scientists whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders. Kingsford is an expert in graph algorithms as applied to systems biology.
Ben Shneiderman and Philip Resnik were quoted in the Wall Street Journal article, “Mining Tweets for Public Opinion.” Shneiderman has developed techniques for analyzing social media, such as the NodeXL Graph Gallery. Resnik, who is now lead scientist for social-media analysis firm Converseon Inc, was also featured on another WSJ article about Twitter.
Philip Resnik has made a mobile app for responding to live TV events second-by-second in real time using your smartphone. He was featured on the Kojo Nnamdi show talking about his React Labs project.
The M-Urgency App was released to the broader UMD community today (Jan 25). The app for Android phones, allows students and staff to share video, audio and location information about their emergency with university police dispatchers. For more information, click here.
Samir Khuller's mentee, Montgomery Blair HS senior Frederic Koehler, is a 2012 Intel Science Talent Search Finalist . His award-winning project "Quick and Efficient: Fast Algorithms for Completion Time and Batch Minimization on Multiple Machines" is the only project representing the state of Maryland.
Two former PhD students, Ravi Garg and Avinash L. Varna and Dr. Min Wu received a Best Student Paper Award in the ACM Multimedia 2011 Conference . Their paper “’Seeing’ ENF: Natural Time Stamp for Digital Video via Optical sensing and Signal Processing" was ranked as top 3 out of 335 paper submissions.
CS Grad Student Krist Wongsuphasawat has won the Interactive Category of the Information is Beautiful Award. His information visualization, European Bubbles, shows the European Debt crisis over time.
Ben Bederson has been selected to be part of the Association for Computing Machinery’s CHI Academy, an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. Bederson has been recognized as one of the principal leaders in the field of human-computer interaction.
The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory’s early work on touchscreens was mentioned in a U.K’s Channel 4 story about the Apple patent war with manufacturers to protect its patented smartphone technology. The touchscreen toggle switches video they refer to is in this early HCIL’s YouTube video made by Catherine Plaisant. The HCIL webpage discussing our early touchscreen work here.
VS Subhrahmanian was quoted in The New York Times' Science Section for the article "Vast and Fertile Ground in Africa for Science to Take Root". Subhrahmanian's areas of expertise are in artificial intelligence, logic databases and multimedia systems.
Hanan Samet received the Best Demo Paper Award in 2011 ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Conference for the paper: “Porting a Web-Based Mapping Application to a Smartphone App.”
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