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| • | Bonnie Dorr's
DARPA program BOLT has been featured in an article in Slate. The article about
computer translation introduces
the issues of this program to
non-specialists.
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| • | Bill
Rand, the Research Director for the Center for Complexity in Business,
was named a
DARPA Young Faculty Award winner for his proposal, Intelligent Interfaces
for Social Media.
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| • | Uzi
Vishkin's Supercomputer research is being used to teach parallel
programming to area high schoolers. See an ECE article about it,
here.
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| • | Hanan Samet has been awarded the 2011 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. This award
honors specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of
computing. This award has been given to Samet for his fundamental contributions to the development of multidimensional
spatial data structures and indexing that are ubiquitous in myriad areas, including databases, biomedical imaging, computer
graphics and vision, geographic information systems, geometry, games, computational physics, and scientific computation.
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| • | Hanan Samet has been selected by ACM to serve as the Founding Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the new ACM journal titled: ACM
Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS).
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| • |  The University of Maryland (Computer Science Department, Institute for Systems Research,
and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies) will be holding a symposium on May 24-25, 2012 to honor
Prof. Dana Nau's contributions to artificial intelligence on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Researchers from around
the world will gather in College Park, MD to celebrate his contributions to automated planning, diagnostic inference,
adversarial and game theoretic reasoning, and automated manufacturing.
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| • | Maryland
Cybersecurity Center (MC2) Symposium to be held on
May 15-16 in the Riggs Alumni Center. Features cutting edge research on
cybersecurity being done at the University of Maryland, tutorials by
Maryland faculty, and panels and keynotes from outside experts.
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| • | HCIL's 29th Annual
Symposium will highlight the cutting-edge research being conducted in
the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland on
May 22nd and May 23rd.
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| • | OMICS Day
to be held on May 22 in the Institute for
Bioscience and Biotechnology Research. Provides a
unique and premier forum to learn about the high throughput “systems”
biology research at University of Maryland and to foster new synergistic
partnerships with researchers and practitioners.
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| • | Ashok Agrawala's M-Urgency was featured in the New York Times amongst a
select group of high-impact campus
life mobile apps. More about M-Urgency, here.
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| • | Dianne O'Leary
was a Cray Distinguished Speaker at the University of Minnesota. Her distinguished lecture was on
"Image
Restoration from a Machine Learning Perspective."
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| • | Inspiring students from a small college in India
participate in online lectures with Ashok
Agrawala. See the video of this international outreach experience
here.
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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.
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