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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 to 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
 
  CfAR Center for Automation Research
  CBCB Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  CDIG Center for Digital International Government
  CHESS Center for Human Enhanced Secure Systems
  CLIP Computational Linguistics and Information Processing
  CVL Computer Vision Laboratory
  DSSL Distributed Systems Software Laboratory
  GVIL Graphics and Visual Informatics Laboratory
  HCIL Human Computer Interaction Laboratory
  KECK Keck Lab for the Comp. Modeling of Visual Movement
  LAMP Language and Media Processing Laboratory
  LCCD Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics
  LPDC Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Computing
  Maxwell WiMAX Forum Applications Lab
  MC2 Maryland Cybersecurity Center
  MIND Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab
  PIRL Perceptual Interfaces and Reality Laboratory
 
  FCMD Fraunhofer Center at Maryland
  LTS Laboratory for Telecommunications Science
  SESYNC National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center

Ashok Agrawala was recently interviewed on the BBC for the story " Mobile phone applications built to save lives" to talk about M-Urgency, a new safety App developed at UMD. Agrawala has been recognized as an expert on location-awareness technology and is known for his research on large-scale wireless networking, and hard real-time systems design.
Jay Pujara, a second year PhD student working with Lise Getoor and Hal Daume III , won a best paper award at the 8th Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference (CEAS 2011) for Using Classifier Cascades for Scalable E-Mail Classification
Jack Minker, Professor Emeritus, received the 2011 Heinz R. Pagels Award at The New York Academy of Sciences' Annual Meeting. The award is given to scientists for their contributions to safeguard or advance the human rights of scientists throughout the world. To find out more, read the UMIACS Feature on Dr. Minker and a news story featured on The Diamondback.
Hal Daumé III, Lise Getoor and Amol Deshpande, won the 2011 Yahoo! Faculty Research Award. As 2011 Faculty Research and Engagement Program recipients, they will have access to Yahoo! data and collaborate with Yahoo! research scientists.
Eric Chapman, the new associate director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, wrote an op-ed published on the Baltimore Sun: “Online information needs better protection.” Chapman was previously a professional staff member on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. His primary areas of expertise are Policy, Legislation, Corporate and Government Partnerships.
Ashok Agrawala was recently interviewed on Fox DC for the story "M-Urgency Phone App Launches on University of Maryland Campus" to talk about M-Urgency, a new safety App developed at UMD. Agrawala, who helped to invent the technology, was also featured on Washington Channel 9 and WAMU 88.5’s news story, “UMD-College Park Rolls Out New Safety App For Students' Smartphones.” Agrawala has been recognized as an expert on location-awareness technology and is known for his research on large-scale wireless networking, and hard real-time systems design.
Bonnie Dorr was interviewed for an article about the programs she is overseeing at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The article was featured on AFCEA’s Signal Magazine. Dorr has been known for her research on roadscale multilingual processing, specifically on interlingual machine translation, summarization, and linguistically-informed statistical models.
Leafsnap, an electronic field guide to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves, has received wide media coverage. The App has been featured on The New York Times and MSNBC, among many others. The technology was developed by Professor David Jacobs along with researchers from Columbia University and the Smithsomian Institution.
Language Science Day 2011 will take place on September 16. Co-sponsored by UMIACS, LSD2011 hopes to bring together the cross-departmental community of language science students and faculty at the University of Maryland. To find more information about this event, click here.
Adam Porter was invited to discuss the booming job market in mobile application development on The Kojo Nnamdi Show's “Tech Tuesday: Where the Jobs Are." Porter has been known for his research on software development, software testing and quality assurance. His work currently focuses on leveraging end-user computers to improve software quality assurance.
Michael Cukier was interviewed for an article on the government’s need for cybersecurity experts, featured on the Huffington Post‘s Technology Section. Cukier has been known for his research on dependability and security issues, lately focusing on the empirical quantification of cyber security.
Joseph JaJa has been interviewed for an article on digital archiving, featured on the front page of the Washington Post's Metro Section. JaJa has been leading the development of technologies for building infrastructure for the long-term access and preservation of digital assets together with the National Archives and Records Administration.
Ben Shneiderman was quoted in the New York Times Business Section's article on standards for electronic health records (EHR), “Seeing Promise and Peril in Digital Records.” Shneiderman has been championing improved interface designs, consistency, and interoperability for electronic health records.
David Jacobs has been awarded the 2011 Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award for co-pioneering Leafsnap - the first mobile app for plant identification. This award, presented by the American Computer Museum, honors individuals who contribute to the preservation of biodiversity. His co-pioneers from the Smithsonian Institution and Columbia University would also receive this award.
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.
Ching Teo and Yezhou Yang, students of Yiannis Aloimonos and Hal Daumé III 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”
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.
UMIACS is featured in the latest edition of Research@Maryland, published by the University of Maryland Division of Research.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
Professor Philip Resnik was interviewed by the DC ABC news affiliate, WJLA, before the IBM supercomputer Watson took on Ken Jennings in Jeopardy!
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".
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.
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.
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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