News Archive
| • | 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.
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| • | 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.
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| • | 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.
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| • | 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.
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| • | 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.
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| • | 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.
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| • | 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.
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| • | The Human-Computer
Interaction Laboratory’s early work on touchscreens was mentioned in a
U.K’s Channel 4 story abo$
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.
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| • | VS Subhrahmanian
was quoted in The New York Times' Science Section for the article
"Vast $
Fertile Ground in Africa for Science to Take Root". Subhrahmanian's
areas of expertise are in artificial intelligence, logic databases and
multimedia systems.
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| • | 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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| • | Hanan Samet has been honored with the 2011 ACM SIGSPATIAL Distinguished Service
Award for his dedication and support as the founder and first chair of ACM
SIGSPATIAL.
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| • | Ben Shneiderman
has been
named a Fellow of the Institute
of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Shneiderman has been championing
improved interface designs, consistency, and interoperability for
electronic health records.
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| • | Rama
Chellappa has
been elected as an American Association
for the
Advancement of Science Fellow. Chellappa is considered an expert in
the
fields of Signal and Image Processing, Computer Vision and Image analysis,
Neural Networks for Computer Vision, amongst others.
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| • | Ben Bederson
has been recognized by the Association for
Computing Machinery as
a Distinguished Scientist for his significant accomplishments in HCI and
impact on the field of computing.
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| • | Philip
Resnik was
interviewed by New Scientist for the article
“How innovative is Apple's new voice assistant, Siri?” Resnik
specializes
in Computational linguistics and his research in language technology has
focused on machine translation, crowdsourcing and translation and
computational social science.
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| • | Michael Hicks
will serve as the
Director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2). Hicks research focus
is on developing and evaluating techniques to improve software reliability
and security. For
more information about his role at MC2, click here.
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| • | Shuvra
Bhattacharyya and his students received Best Student
Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, held
in Beirut, Lebanon on early October, for their paper:
“Vectorization and mapping of software defined radio applications on
heterogeneous multi-processor platforms.”
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| • | David Jacobs
received 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 also received this award.
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| • | Eric Chapman, the new associate director for the Maryland
Cybersecurity Center, wrote an op-ed published on the Baltimore
Business
Journal:
“Don’t leave cyber security to experts; you should be the first
line of defense.” Chapman was previously a professional staff member
on
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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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.
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| • | 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
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| • | 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.
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| • | 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.
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| • | Eric Chapman, the new associate
director for 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.
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| • |
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.
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| • | 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.
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| • | 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.
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| • | 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.
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| • |
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.
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| • | 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.
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| • | 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. |
| • | 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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| • | IEEE Computer's Special Issue on Technology Mediated Social Participation was Guest Edited by Ben Shneiderman.
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| • | Komoku, Bill Arbaugh's rootkit detection project, was mentioned in a recent SC Magazine article.
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| • | Anata Tiwari and Jeff Hollingsworth received Best Paper - Software at the 2011 IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium. The paper is titled "Online Adaptive Code Generation and Tuning".
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| • | Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi was selected to receive a Google Research Award for his proposal "Online Auctions".
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| • | Professor Mohammad Hajiaghayi and Professor Carl Kingsford won the NSF CAREER Award.
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| • | Professor Louiqa Raschid was co-chair of an NSF workshop on the Evolving Role of Financial Information Management for Systemic Risk Monitoring and Regulation.
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| • | Shuvra Bhattacharyya and Min Wu have been elected as Fellows of IEEE this year. Shuvra is being recognized for his seminal contributions to design optimization for signal processing. Min is being recognized for her contributions to multimedia security and forensics.
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"No One Should Own Your Genes: Patents on human genes stifle science and innovation" Dr. Steven Salzberg's op-ed published in the 10 November issue of The Baltimore Sun.
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Professor Ashok Agrawala's work on improving campus safety through Video 911 receives wide acclaim in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Diamondback, and on WTOP.
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Dr. Larry Davis is co-director of the new Maryland Cybersecurity Center, an interdisciplinary research center, bringing together experts from engineering and computer science as well as information sciences, business, public policy, social sciences and economics to address our nation's growing needs in cybersecurity.
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Dr. Rita Colwell named Science Envoy to the Muslim World by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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“Are developers complying with the process: an XP study” by Nico
Zazworka, Kai Stapel, Eric Knauss, Forrest Shull, Victor Basili and Kurt
Schneider has just won a best research paper award at ESEM 2010.
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V.S. Subrahmanian's Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agent technology—which predicts terrorist attacks by analyzing a range of information about politics, business and society—is referenced in the September 4 edition of The Economist, in the article "Mining Social Networks: Untangling the Social Web".
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Ramani Duraiswami is giving a keynote talk at DAFx-10 in Graz Austria, as well as an invited colloquium at the Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
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Ben Shneiderman presented a keynote talk at the 2010 International Conference on Active Media Technology on "Technology-Mediated Social Participation: Deep Science and Extreme Technology", and will be providing the opening keynote talk at the 24th BCS conference on Human Computer Interaction, at University of Abertay Dundee. (Aug 28, 2010 and Sept 8, 2010)
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Dr. Amitabh Varshney has been appointed the new Director of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Varshney's research focuses on exploring the applications of graphics and visualization in engineering, science and medicine.
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Ben Bederson spoke on the The Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU 88.5 FM) about the crowdsourcing and the future of language translation. (Aug 24, 2010)
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Sarit Kraus of UMIACS and Bar-Ilan University has been awarded the 2010 EMET Prize in Computer Science in recognition of her work on intelligent agents and algorithms which conduct negotiations with people and with other computerized agents. She will share the award with Prof. David Harel, of the Weizmann Institute of Science. (Aug 10, 2010)
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Matthias Brocheler, Andrea Pugliese and V.S. Subrahmanian won Third Best Paper award at the 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining for their work on COSI: Cloud Oriented Subgraph Identification in Massive Social Networks. (Aug 16, 2010)
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Sarit Kraus of UMIACS and Bar-Ilan University has been awarded the 2010 EMET Prize in Computer Science in recognition of her work on intelligent agents and algorithms which conduct negotiations with people and with other computerized agents. She will share the award with Prof. David Harel, of the Weizmann Institute of Science. (Aug 10, 2010)
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Ben Langmead traveled to London to accept the Genome Biology Award for his paper, jointly authored with Cole Trapnell, Mihai Pop, and Steven Salzberg, describing the sequence aligner Bowtie. The Genome Biology Award recognizes the best article published in Genome Biology in 2009 and was introduced to celebrate the ten year anniversary of this journal.
(June 11, 2010)
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Graduate student Bo Liu received a best poster award at the
International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications
(ISBRA 2010) (May 23-26, 2010)
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Rama Chellappa has been named an Outstanding ECE Alumnus by Purdue University. (May 12, 2010)
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Ben Bederson is quoted in Technology Review. The article also talks about the ICDL on iPad. (May 12, 2010)
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Ramani Duraiswami gave a keynote talk at the Second International Symposium on Ambisonics and Spherical Acoustics, Paris. (May 6, 2010)
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Adam Porter's iPhone programming course was featured on Fox 5 DC (May 5, 2010)
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Ben Bederson and Allison Druin's ICDL application has been released for Apple's iPad by Apple. It is featured in an article in "The Independent" (UK). (Apr 6, 2010)
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Rance Cleaveland’s work on sudden-acceleration problems experienced by Toyotas in and the possibility of electromagnetic interference as a potential cause is being featured on WUSA Channel 9 during the 5pm news hour today. (Mar 23)
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Rita R. Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, has been named the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. The award is widely recognized as the world's premier award
for water related research or policy work. The complete announcement can be found here. (Mar 23)
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| • | Phil Resnik is quoted in a front page article in Tuesday's NY Times dealing with Google's translation services. The article is here (Mar 12)
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Ashok Agrawala's work on location awareness, Wimax technology and some of its campus applications has been featured in a PBS show on broadband. You can view a video clip here. (Mar 12)
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Congratulations to Ben Shneiderman who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and to Ben Bederson & Allison Druin for receiving the SIGCHI Social Impact Award. (Feb 18)
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The Baltimore Sun ran a story about Prof V.S. Subrahmanian's work on identifiying insurgents bomb making materials which is currently being used in Iraq. (Dec 29)
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The New York Times ran an article about Allison Druin's work on how children use the internet. It is discussed on Slashdot. (Dec 28)
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Jordan Boyd-Graber was recognized with a Best Student Paper Award Honorable Mention for his paper at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NIPS) entitled "Reading Tea Leaves: How Humans Interpret Topic Models". (Dec 22)
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Rama Chellappa was won the 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society Award (Dec 10)
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Lise Getoor was elected to the International Machine Learning Society Board (Dec 8)
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Ben Shneiderman will be receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Castilla-LaMancha in Spain on February 9, 2010. Previous recipients include writer Umberto Eco, Oxford chemist Richard Wayne, film producer Pedro Almodovar, and sociologist Manuel Castells. (Nov 30)
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Amitabh Varshney and Aravind Srinivasan were elected Fellows of IEEE. (Nov 24)
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Ben Shneiderman's views on augmented reality were featured in the Washington Post on Nov. 21. (Nov 24)
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The paper "Social Trust Based Web Service Composition", by Ugur Kuter and Jennifer Golbeck, has won the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009).(Nov 2)
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Oct. 23 episode of the popular TV Show Numb3rs (episode title "Hydra") references LCCD's work on Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents (SOMA) and used SOMA like techniques to solve a kidnapping. (Oct 26)
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Allison Druin and Ben Bederson's International Children's Digital Library was named a winner of the 2009 Digital Education aAwards which recognizes exception web sites and projects focused on K-12 and higher education. (Sept 11)
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V.S. Subrahmanian co-chairs and hosts the Third International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2009) scheduled for Sep 28-30. (Aug 18)
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Larry Davis and grad student Abhinav Gupta's work on describing video content through speech (with applications to baseball) has been featured on discovery and in IEEE Spectrum. (Jul 14)
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The HCIL Open House and Ben Bederson's work was featured in the Washington Post (Jun 1)
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The paper "Using Histograms to Better Answer Queries to Probabilistic Logic Programs" by Matthias Broecheler, Gerardo Simari and V.S. Subrahmanian has been named the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2009 International Conference on Logic Programming to be held in Pasadena, CA in July 2009. (May 27)
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Mike Hicks and his former student, Iulian Neamtiu and were quoted in an MIT Technology Review article on a company developing "live" (on-the-fly) updating for Linux. (May 20)
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Hanan Samet has been awarded the 2009 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Research Award for his research contribution to GIS and for his landmark book "Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures" (May 17).
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Dave Jacobs' work on Digital Field Guides to enable researchers to identify plants from photos of leaves has been featured in both the NY Times and CNN. (May 12)
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Min Wu was elected to serve as Vice President for Finance of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), for a three year term of 2010-2012. (May 6)
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Dave Jacobs' work on recognizing trees from iPhone pictures has been described in a CNN Science-Tech blog post. (May 6)
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Steven Salzberg was interviewed about the swine flu in Mexico on WTOP yesterday. The interview is available on their website. (Apr 28)
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Doug Oard work on processing of legal documents in connection with the TREC benchmarks has garnered some good press in the ABA (American Bar Association) journal. (Apr 24)
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Ashok's Video-911 project has received massive press coverage today - both in the print and TV media. Diamondback,
News 8,Washington Post, Washington Times, Tweakers, Telecompaper. (Apr 24)
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Steven Salzberg work on the cow genome was highlighted in Science News. (Apr 24)
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Jonathan Katz was one of 12 professors selected to be a member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Panel (CS2P) for 2009. This is a multi-year program, consisting of a
funded educational experience to familiarize the participants with DoD practices, challenges and risks, and up to three years of funded research to explore and develop
technologies that have the potential to transition innovative and revolutionary computer science and technology advances to the government. (Apr 24)
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Mihai Pop is highlighted and interviewed on the NSF's Cloud Computing press release
(Apr 24)
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Ashok Agrawala is featured in a Washington Times article on his pioneering MyeVue
work. (Apr 23)
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The University of Maryland hosted a workshop on parallel computing systems on May 29, 2009, titled "Theory and
Many-Cores (T&MC): What Does Theory Have to Say About Many-Core Computing?." The workshop was organized by Professor Uzi Vishkin (ECE/UMIACS).
The main objective of the workshop was to explore opportunities for theoretical computer science research and education in the emerging era of many-core computing, and
develop understanding of the role that theory should play in it. See also
http://www.ece.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=3801
The workshop website is: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/tmc2009 (Apr 1)
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Congratulations to Louiqa Raschid on being named one of this year's 27 ACM Distinguished Scientists. See http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?awd=157 (Feb 5)
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A news article published in Nature has very nice coverage of some of Ben Shneiderman's work (and that of his colleagues) on disaster response systems. The URL is http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090121/full/457376a.html - there is also a podcast that Nature did with Ben at http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/ (Jan 28)
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V.S. Subrahmanian was named a fellow by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of his contributions in computer science and
multidisciplinary computing, for techniques to implement multiple data sources, software programs and
automatically build group behavioral models and forecast group behaviors. (Jan 9)
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The paper "Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs" by Nathaniel Ayewah, Bill Pugh, David Hovemeyer, David Morgenthaler and John Penix was selected by IEEE Software's editorial and advisory boards as one of their 25th-Anniversary Top Picks. (Dec 16)
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Larry Davis and VS were interviewed on the Kojo Nnamdi show. The topic was the future of artificial
intelligence. Also available with real audio. (Nov 26)
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Phil Resnilk was interviewed on Federal News Radio on November 17, discussing cloud computing and its relevance to R&D in language technology. (Nov 18)
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Rama Chellappa is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. Rama is being recognized for “pioneering and sustained contributions to image and video based pattern recognition and computer vision”. (Nov 18)
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Rita Colwell's work on using satellite based methods to map and predict global cholera outbreaks is featured by BBC News. (Nov 12)
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| • | In October 2008, Bonnie Dorr, and her students Matthew Snover and Nitin Madnani (in collaboration with Rich Schwartz at BBN Technologies) participated in the first ever NIST Metric MATR workshop to evaluate and compare automatic machine translation evaluation metrics. Their submission, TERp (Translation Edit Rate plus), was evaluated by its ability to automatically predict the quality of a translation.
TERp was one of the top performing metrics at the workshop, and had the highest Pearson correlation coefficient, with human judgments in 9 of the 45 test conditions---more than any other metric. In addition, in 33 of the 45 test conditions, TERp was statistically indistinguishable from the top metric---again more than any other metric. Overall, TERp was consistently one of the best performing metrics in the workshop. (Nov 3)
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Xu Liu, a CS and UMIACS PhD Candidate working with Dave Doermann recently placed second in the ACM Student Research Competition associated with ASSETS2008 in Halifax. His work on a mobile currency reader for the visually impaired is being beta tested nationwide by the National Federation for the blind, and has qualified for the Grand Finals in April.(Oct 23)
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Amitabh Varshney has been elected as the Chair of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) for 2008 - 2011 term. VGTC provides technical leadership and organization for technical activities in the areas of visualization, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, and interaction. (Sep 24)
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Rita Colwell received an honorary degree from the University of Oslo. In addition, she gave an invited special lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine in London earlier this month. (Sep 17)
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UMIACS research scientist Ugur Kuter, former UMIACS postdoc Guillaume Infantes, and ISR postdoc Florent Teichteil-Königsbuch's program RFF has won the Fully Observable Probabilistic track of the 2008 International Planning Competition. (Sept 16)
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Steven Salzberg was quoted in a recent article in Science Magazine about the FBI investigation of the anthrax attacks on the US Capitol. (Aug 20)
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Lise Getoor and student Mustafa Bilgic received the best student paper award at the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery + Data Mining (KDD) for the paper "Effective Label Acquistion for Collective Classification." (Aug 7)
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Congrats to Steven Salzberg - he was quoted in USA Today in connection with the investigation into the anthrax attacks on the US C
apitol. (Aug 7)
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Rance Cleaveland who was quoted in today's Baltimore Sun on the use of static analysis methods for testing medical devices. Link. (Jun 30)
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Hanan Samet, Jagan Sanakaranarayanan and Houman Alborzi on winning the best paper award at SIGMOD 2008 for their paper entitled "Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases".(Jun 25)
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Congrats to Amitabh Varshney. He is quoted in articles related to NVIDIA's release of their new TESLA HPC processors and their relevance to gaming and graphics programming. Articles: eweek, crn (Jun 17)
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UM (geography, Behavioral & Social Sciences; Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Computer, Mathematical & Physical Sciences) partners with 13 other institutions and organizations in producing a new Atlas of Africa, using UM's library of NASA satellite images. "Taking advantage of the latest space technology and Earth observation science, including the 36 year legacy of the U.S. Landsat satellite program, the atlas serves to demonstrate the potential of satellite imagery data in monitoring ecosystems and natural resources dynamics. This can provide the kind of hard, evidence-based data to support political decisions aimed at improving management of Africa's natural resources." Link. (Jun 10)
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Julie Segre is touring the microbial landscape of our body's biggest organ, the skin. In anticipation of a $115 million, 5-year effort by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), she's traveling from head to toe, conducting a census of some of the trillions of bacteria that live within and upon human skin. Although their project is just getting off the ground, Segre, a geneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Bethesda, Maryland, and her colleagues have already uncovered a surprising diversity and distribution among skin bacteria. And a few oddities have emerged, too: Microbes known mostly from soils like healthy human skin, living in harmony with us; and the space between our toes is a bacterial desert compared to the nose and belly button. Segre's work on where bacteria live 'is cool stuff,' says Steven Salzberg, a bio-informaticist at the University of Maryland (director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Chemical & Life Sciences; Computer, Mathematical & Physical Sciences) and the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science). 'We need to increase our own and the public's awareness of the diversity and quantity of bacterial species on our own skin. The more people are aware, the more we can do to control infection.' Link. (Jun 10)
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Umiacs Participating in Cloud Computing Initiative: "We're aiming to train tomorrow's programmers to write software that can support a tidal wave of global Web growth and trillions of secure transactions every day." The initiative will involve Carnegie Mellon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Maryland and the University of Washington. Link (Jun 5)
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Allison Druin on the Kojo Nnamdi Show : "It's the first Tuesday of the month and The Computer Guys & Gal are back to answer your questions and update us on the latest in technology. Hear about the latest in ultra-small portable computing. And what we can expect from the next-generation iPhone, expected out any minute now." Link (Jun 3)
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Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory "25th Anniversary and Annual Symposium Days: Maryland Governor O'Malley proclaimed May 29-30, 2008 as the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory '25th Anniversary and Annual Symposium Days.' According to the proclamation, "The sparks of innovation have been steadily emerging for 25 years from the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland. Founded in 1983, this group of devoted faculty, outstanding staff, and energetic students has a remarkable record of innovative contributions that have influenced most modern information and communications technologies." (Jun 3)
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Allison Druin and the HCI team for having May 29-30, 2008 recognized as HCIL's 25th Anniversary and Annual Symposium Days by Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley. (May 29)
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The Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society has honored Rama Chellappa with a Technical Achievement Award for his "fundamental and pioneering contributions to face and human motion modeling and recognition from still images and video sequences." The award includes a Certificate and $2,000 honorarium. (May 19)
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Congrats to Dave Jacobs on a recent article in the Smithsonian magazine about his work on developing a botanical field guide that uses image processing methods. (May 11)
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Congrats to grad students Adam O'Donovan and Derek Juba on receiving the prestigious NVIDIA fellowships. UMD is the only university with two recipients.
Congratulations also to their advisor, Ramani Duraiswami, and to Amitabh Varshney. (Ap 28)
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Katz: Modern 'Primitive' Could Ease Pain of Encrypting Massive Amounts of Data: Researchers have devised an encryption scheme that could simplify the protection of sensitive information by allowing banks, hospitals and other organizations to lock files using keys that are based on specific attributes, such as an employee's position or geographic location.Link (Apr 23)
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"The breeding ground for new influenza strains is centered in East and Southeast Asia, new research suggests. The virus bounces around countries in the region before emerging worldwide to cause seasonal epidemics. ... The flu hotspot theory is not new, but the results seem to provide a more comprehensive picture of how influenza emerges and makes its way around the world. 'This is not a new hypothesis, but this is new evidence,' says computational biologist Steven Salzberg of the University of Maryland in College Park. 'Theres a lot more data now, and it makes it a lot more clear thats what's going on.' " Link. (Apr 17)
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Mel Bernstein writes that Microsoft recently purchased a startup created by a computer scientist from the University of Maryland (Bill Arbaugh's Komoku). It's a textbook case of how technology leaps ahead these days. Link (Apr 16)
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Steven Salzberg was quoted in Science Magazine commenting on the idea of building a wiki style environment around Genbank. (Mar 21)
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A UMIACS team lead by Prof. Rama Chellappa and consisting of UMIACS/CS Professors Yiannis Aloimonos, Larry Davis, Ramani Duraiswami and David Jacobs won a 2008 MURI award for their proposal to develop face, gait, long-distance speech and other motion-based human recognition algorithms tailored to the maritime domain. The team is partnered with Columbia University, University of California at Colorado Springs and University of California at San Diego. (Mar 20)
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Ben Shneiderman's article on Science 2.0 in Science Magazine has drawn press coverage in places like Wired Magazine, Indo-China News Service, PhysOrg. (Feb 15)
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Dianne O'Leary received three honors just this past week:
She'll be the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer at the SIAM Annual meeting, July 7, in San Diego:
As of January 2009, Dianne will serve as editor-in-chief of SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.
Dianne is also one of four plenary speakers at the 2008 SIAM Conference on Data Mining, Atlanta, April 25. (Mar 4)
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The Lab for Computational Cultural Dynamics' SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) and social network site for terrorism related analysis and prediction was featured in several major news media (Feb. 26). STOP provides methods for reasoning about terror groups and forecasting what they might do in the future. In addition, it contains unique social networking capabilities that allow analysts to effectively cooperate in order to better understand and counteract terror groups. Articles by: Computerworld
Magazine, UPI News, Network World.
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UMIACS Professor Allison Druin's work was featured in the MIT Technology Review. (Feb 26)
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The International Children's Digital Library is featured in a Boston Globe article entitled, 'Gems for Children. (Feb 21)
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Usability Lab opens: the new facility is equipped with a user-testing laboratory and space for the Human Computer Interaction Laboratory. (Feb 11)
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Bederson's co-authored a new book titled "Voting Technology: The Not-so-simple Act of Casting a Ballot." The book is an in-depth look at the usability of various voting machine technologies, summarizing a three year NSF project. (Feb 11)
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Rita Colwell co-authored an article in Science on January 25 titled "Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria", which addressed the potential for a sustainable approach to supplying these basic services to Nigeria's poor by encouraging private companies to become involved. (Feb 11)
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Ben Bederson was the guest on an hour long public radio show in Seattle on KUOW on January 16. The topic was "The Future of the Cellphone." Bederson was also a guest on WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi's Tech Tuesday show on January 22 speaking on the same topic. Bederson was asked to do a monthly appearance on the show as well. (Feb 11)
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Allison Druin was interviewed by the St. Augustine Record on January 20. Druin who heads the Human Computer Interaction Lab works one-on-one with children to find out which technology will help their learning and where technology is headed. Druin says while mobile devices like cell phones are banned in many schools today, she expects them to become an integral part of education in the future.
(Feb 11)
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Ben Shneiderman was interviewed by Government Computer News on January 22. In the interview Shneiderman says computers are making people more visual, which is a good thing. (Feb 11)
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Golbeck and Lin comment on the shift from viewing software as packages residing on a personal computer to services provided over the network. (Feb 11)
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Montgomery Blair High School senior Louis Wasserman, 17, of Derwood is among 40 students nationwide competing for the $100,00 first-place scholarship and is one of two students from Maryland named finalists last week in the high school competition. Wasserman is working with UMIACS' Bill Gasarch. Article. (Feb 11)
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New applications translate speech and read documents in real time. Doermann discusses how his company is working on software for smart phones that could be used by the military for translation and by the visually impaired. (Feb 11)
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UMIACS Professor Ben Bederson appeared on WYPR radio in Baltimore (Feb 8) and mentioned that user error is one of the biggest problems contributing to inaccurate election results. (Feb 12)
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Julian Mestre (a PhD student of Samir Khuller's) won the best paper award at the SODA was awarded the best student paper award at the ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) - one of the top conferences in algorithms. Julian joined the Max Planck Institute in Germany on Oct. 1, but the paper is based on his work at Maryland. (Feb 5)
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Dave Levin, PhD student of Bobby Bhattacharjee and Aravind Srinivasan, has been awarded a prestigious Microsoft Live Labs Fellowship. Dave was one of four Live Labs Fellows selected. Congratulations to Dave, Bobby, and Aravind on this wonderful achievement. (Feb 1)
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UMIACS Professor Ben Bederson's views on cell phones were featured on the Kojo Nnamdi show. In addition, his recently issued report on voting technology was featured in Technology Review (Jan 29, 2008). (Feb 1)
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UMIACS Professor Ben Shneiderman was honored on his 60th birthday via the publication of a special issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction celebrating his accomplishments. Details here and here (pdf). (Feb 1)
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The International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction is honoring one of the field's founding fathers with a special edition. This issue (Volume 23, Issue 3), celebrates the 60th birthday of Ben Shneiderman. Article. (Jan 31)
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Ben Bederson was part of a team that conducted a five-year study on voting-machine technology. The team recently released a report on their findings. (Jan 29)
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David Doermann is among the cadre of University of Maryland scientists launching startup businesses with the school's help. Article. (Jan 28)
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Ben Bederson was a guest on an hour long public radio show in Seattle on KUOW topic was "The Future of the Cellphone." More coverage of the show at here. (Jan 18)
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Rita Colwell's article in Science, Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria, appears in Science. The article addresses the potential for a sustainable approach to supplying basic services to Nigeria's poor by encouraging private companies to become involved. (Jan 27)
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Ben Schneiderman says in an interview that the visual nature of the computer and the Web has exciting possibilities for the presentation and dissemination of information. (Jan 21)
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Adam Porter describes his research in a guest posting on the Google Testing Blog.(Jan 14)
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V.S. Subrahmanian's work on developing principled methods of generating forecasts of the behaviors of different groups worldwide was extensively discussed in a January 13 article in the Manila (Sunday) Times in the Philippines. link (Jan 15)
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Rama Chellappa is the recipient of the Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. (Dec 12)
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Two high school seniors from Montgomery County were named regional finalists in the nationwide Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. Louis Wasserman of Derwood and Benjamin Lu of Potomac were both awarded $1,000 scholarships from the Siemens Foundation. Bill Gasarch is Wasserman's official mentor.(Dec 12)
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A Clark School press release: "The next big leap in advanced computing technology just got a new name. It's 'ParaLeap. (Dec 8)
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Congrats to Shuvra Bhattacharyya on being a co-author of the paper titled "Low-overhead run-time scheduling for fine-grained acceleration of signal processing systems" co-authored with J. Boutellier and O. Silvn which won the best student paper award at the 2007 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Shanghai, China. (Nov 20)
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"Honda today awarded $50,000 advanced research grants to professors at seven U.S. universities. One of those awards went to David Jacobs of the University of Maryland: for the study of enhanced facial recognition computer algorithms for humanoid robotics." (Nov 16)
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Mannes and Subrahmanian comment on the use of computer technology by extremist groups. "When Hezbollah released the second version of its video game 'Special Force' in August, it demonstrated, yet again, how quickly terrorist groups have taken advantage of technology in order to propagate their worldview. While America dominates the fast growing multi-billion dollar video game industry, there has not yet been an effort to develop video games that counter Islamist extremism." (Nov 14)
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Scientists just published an analysis of the cat genome - in particular, of a 4-year-old Abyssinian cat. The DNA sequence is not yet complete, but the analysis of the "draft" genome captures many important feline genes, some of which are important in studying human diseases. Much of the analysis focuses on the difficulties of working with incomplete sequence, and the news stories include comments from UMIACS Professor Steven Salzberg on the technical challenges involved. (Nov 5)
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UMIACS researcher Aaron Mannes pens OpEd for the National Review Online where he writes "The question of who was behind Friday's assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto is the whodunit from hell and, instead of a pistol, the drawing room denouement will feature Pakistan's nuclear weapons." (Oct 23)
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Uzi Vishkin was named an "Innovator of the Year" by the Baltimore Daily Record. (Oct 12)
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Rama Chellappa received the Oustanding Research Award from the A. James Clark School of Engineering. (Oct 12)
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Graduate student Jusub Kim (ECE) won third place in the IBM Cell University Challenge. Nearly 80,000 students competed for the four awards. (Oct 9)
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Amy Karlson and Ben Bederson received one of three Brian Shackel Awards for "Outstanding Contribution with international impact in the field of HCI" at the INTERACT 2007 conference in Rio de Janeiro on September 12th. (Oct 9)
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UMIACS Professor Steven Salzberg has been named a Highly Cited Computer Science researcher in microbiology by ISIHighlyCited.com - a list of a little over 300 faculty members who have been most highly cited in their field.
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Uzi Vishkin's new desktop supercomputer was featured in a several news articles. (Oct 3)
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V.S Subrahmanian's report entitled, "Cultural Modeling in Real Time" appeared in Science Magazine. (Oct 3)
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Rama Chellappa was featured on the BBC for his pioneering work on gait recognition and using gait characteristics and other biometrics as a way of uniquely identifying people. (Oct 3)
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UMIACS researcher Cynthia Parr's work on the semantic web was reported on
by the New York Times (Sep 12).
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Yiannis Aloimonos gave a keynote address at the 2007 International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, Sep. 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.(Sept 24)
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Graduate students Vijay Gopalakrishnan and Ruggero Morselli along with faculty members Pete Keleher, Bobby Bhattacharjee and Aravind Srinivasan received the best paper award at the 14th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing this month for their paper on "Distributed Ranked Search". (Sept 16)
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A paper by Amy Karlson and Ben Bederson titled "ThumbSpace: Generalized One-Handed Input for Touchsreen-based Mobile Devices" won the best paper award at the INTERACT 2007 conference in Rio de Janeiro this month. (Sept 14)
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UMIACS Professor Uzi Vishkin's new desktop supercomputer was featured in a Computerworld Magazine article - see article.
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Professor Rama Chellappa is a recipient of the prestigious 2007 IBM faculty award. (Aug 31)
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UMIACS researcher Gang Qu's work on saving power in hand-held devices such as iPhones has been featured in MIT Technology Review's August 30 issue (Aug 31)
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UMIACS and CS professor Amitabh Varshney has been invited to deliver a joint plenary keynote on "Visualization and Persuasion" at the Symposium on Volume Graphics and the Symposium on Point based Graphics, September 2-4. (Aug 30)
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UMIACS researcher Aaron Mannes views on the decline of support for suicide bombings in the Muslim world were reported in the National Review Online (July 26)
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UMIACS Professor Ashok Agrawala's comments on potential security issues in the Apple iPhone were covered by the Baltimore Sun (July 24).
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UMIACS Professor Dana Nau's comments on automated poker playing computer programs were reported in the Washington Post (July 23).
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UMIACS researcher Catherine Plaisant's comments on visualization on Digg were reported by MIT Technology Review. (July 23)
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UMIACS FRA Aaron
Mannes was interviewed by Ohio Cable, about "Terror on Internet
Web servers owned by American Companies."
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Ben Shneiderman's exhibit "Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary" was featured on the WETA public TV web site
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Ashok Agrawala is quoted in the Washington Post on network problems occurring at Duke University because of the large number of iPhones in use there.
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V.S. Subrahmanian was quoted in the July 20th issue of Science
Magazine (pdf) discussing a new funding Department of Defense funding initiative to improve expertise in national security.
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UMIACS Professor Rita Colwell has been awarded the National Medal of Science by President Bush. The Medal of Science is our country's highest honor for science and is awarded to a small number of individuals whose work has had an unusually significant effect on the advancement of science. Dr. Colwell's pioneering research focuses on studying water borne pathogens and has led to demonstrable reductions in deaths due to diarrheal diseases such as cholera.
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ECE and UMIACS Professor Uzi Vishkin introduces new "Desktop Supercomputing" prototype capable of computing speeds 100 times faster than current desktops, the technology is based on parallel processing on a single chip. [Read more about it here]
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V.S. Subrahmanian gave a talk on "Computational Cultural Dynamics" on Capitol Hill on June 14, 2007. The talk was at
tended by US Representative Adam Smith (D-WA), Jim Cooper (D-TN) and Jim Sexton
(R-NJ) and several congressional staff members and others.
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The Wall Street Journal (European Edition) has published an article by UMIACS researcher Aaron Mannes on the recent denial of service attacks on the IT infrastructure of
Estonia.
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Professor Emeritus Jack Minker gave
an invited keynote address, ``Reflections on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic
Reasoning,'' at the International C
onference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning held in Tempe, Ari
zona, May 14 -- May 17, 2007.
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Chris Halaschek-Wiener's paper "To
ward Expressive Syndication on the Web" was a runner-up for best paper at this years World Wide Web conference.
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An international team of researchers including Steven Salzberg reported the first ever sequencing of european genomes of avian influenza virus, H5N1, in the May issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. The sequences
depict the lineages infecting wild and domestic birds in Europe and Africa and
show relationships between all strains.
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An article
in Science magazine on April 27 highlighted V.S. Subrahmanian's work on automated, real time methods to model the behaviors of foreign cultural groups and terror groups.
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Rama Chellappa and grad student Aravind Sundaresan won the most innovative invention of 2006 for their work on Markerles
s Motion Capture.
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Cornelia Fermueller's work has been highlighted in a publication
called "Bridges" put out by the Office of Scienc
e & Technology of the Government of Austria. The article recognizes Cornelia as a visionary scientist.
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Ben Shneiderman and Jennifer Preece's article "911.gov" on Community Response Grids was featured in the Feb. 16th issue of Science. The article has also been picked up by the BBC, New Scientist
, and Discovery.
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Bonnie Dorr and Necip
Fazil Ayan won best paper at the North American ACL conference this year for their paper "Combining Out
puts from Multiple Machine Translation Systems". The paper will appear in Proceedings of the North American
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Lise Getoor, CS and UMIACS, received a $63,000 Google Research Award for "Scalable Entity Resolution for Google Services".
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VS Subrahmanian, CS and UMIACS, and Bonnie Dorr, CS and UMIACS, were selected by Computerworld as winners of its 2006 Horizon Awards for most innovative new emerging software for their OASYS (Opinion Analysis System) software.
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Atif Memon, CS and UMIACS, was appointed to the Software Testing Verification and Reliability Editorial Board.
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Rama Chellappa, UMIACS and ECE, was featured in a Baltimore Sun article on January 5 about new behavior recognition software that enables computers to alert people when something, or someone, appears suspicious.
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Ben Bederson, CS and UMIACS, was featured in the Wall Street Journal on January 19 in an article about a new invention of his called DateLens that will be a new aid in calendar and appointment organization. The device is a free plug-in for your Windows-powered handheld device that zooms in on a specific day, week or month so you could see it in detail, reducing but not completely obscuring the surrounding days, weeks or months, allowing you to see how one appointment fits in with the rest of your scheduled life.
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Steven Salzberg, CS and UMIACS, Arthur Delcher, UMIACS, and Michael Schatz, research graduate student UMIACS, cracked a genome code, allowing an NYU researcher success in creating the genome of a parasite. The story was published on Eureka Alert on January 13.
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Ben Shneiderman, CS and UMIACS, was quoted in the Rediff News on January 31 commenting with caution about a new technology demonstrated by an NYU scientists that may allow photo manipulation on a monitor as if they were actual prints on a tabletop. Shneiderman calls Han a 'great showman' who has 'opened the door to exciting possibilities' but doesn't think Han's technology would be suitable for a large-scale consumer product.
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Ruby Kulles - one of the children participating in the ICDL was pictured in an AP news wire that was picked up by several media outlets that included the Washington Post, Forbes.com, CBS News, and on Yahoo news. The articles were about One Laptop Per Child. One Laptop Per Child is a new partner with the HCIL.
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Dianne O'Leary was named a Distinguished Scientist by the ACM.
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Yiannis Aloimonos's research and commentary on Geoffrey Hinton's work were featured in the article "Neural Networks Show New Promise for Machine Vision" in IEEE Magazine for Computing in Science and Engineering.
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Justin Domke, and Yiannis Aloimonos won best paper award at the Photogrammetric Computer Vision Conference that took place in Bonn- Sept 20-22, 2006.
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V.S. Subrahmanian has been selected for inclusion on ISIHighlycited.com - a web site run by Thomson Scientific and ISI as part of their ISI Web of Science citation rankings. According to ISIHighlycited.com, "ISIHighlyCited.com will grow to include the top 250 preeminent individual researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work--the intellectual debt acknowledged by their colleagues."
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Lise Getoor and Indrajit Bhattacharyya won best paper award at the SIAM Data Mining Conference
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Aravind Sundaresan and Rama Chellappa won "Best Student Paper Award" in the Computer Vision Track of the International Conf. on Pattern Recognition held in Hong Kong.
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William Arbaugh and T. Charles Clancy's paper entitled "Measuring Interference Temperature" submitted to 16th Annual Symposium on Wireless Personal
Communications was selected as "Best Paper".
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Students in Jim Hendler's Mindswap group: Aditya Kalyanpur, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin, and Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, won the Best Paper Award at the European Semantic Web Conference for their paper: "Repairing Unsatisfiable Concepts in OWL Ontologies."
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Former UMIACS Director Dr. Joseph JaJa's project, "Transcontinental Persistent Archives
Prototype" was among four winners of the first annual
Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) Awards. This program recognizes and encourages innovative advanced network
applications that
have had the most positive impact within the research and education community.--more--
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Dr. Ashok Agrawala has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the
Advance AAAS.
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Dr. Ben Bederson, Director, HCIL, has won the
prestigious IBM Faculty Award for his work on the Piccolo 2D graphics toolkit.
The award, for 2006, is $30,000.
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Dr. Rita Colwell has been inducted into the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences. She has also been recognized by the Japanese government with the "Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and
Silver Star" for her contribution to the Science and Technology collaboration between the US and Japan. Dr. Colwell is also being
recognized by NOAA as a Distinguished Scholar.
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Assistant Professor Amol Deshpande has recieved an NSF Career Award.
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UMIACS post-doc Jen Golbeck has been named one of the
IEEE Intelligent Systems 10 to Watch. This is their first ever top 10 AI list and will be featured in an article in the
May/June 2006 special issue on the Future of AI, which commemorates the
50th Anniversary of the Dartmouth Workshop (generally considered the birthplace of modern AI).
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The IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2005 Best Paper Award was given to
Assistant Professor Min Wu (and
several coauthors). The paper
Anti-Collusion Fingerprinting for Multimedia was published in April 2003.
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Dr. John Townshend, Project Director of
the GLCF and Chair of the UMD Geography Department,
is a
recipient of the prestigious 2005 William T.
Pecora award for "Outstanding Leadership in Advancing
Global Land Remote Sensing."
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Dr. Neil Spring
won the 2005 William R. Bennett Prize for the
paper Measuring ISP Topologies with Rocketfuel,
which was published in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking in 2004.
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Jack Kustanowitz, UMIACS graduate student, was the lead author on
Meaningful Presentations of Photo Libraries: Rationale
and Applications of
Bi-Level Radial Quantum Layouts, which won the Best Student Paper award at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
2005.
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Assistant Professor Gang Qu won a Trustworthy Computing (TWC)
Curriculum RFP
award from
Microsoft Research. Dr. Qu
received a $50,000 cash award for his winning project titled A Multidisciplinary and Integrated Approach to Raise the Global
Awareness of Trustworthy
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David Chiang a UMIACS postdoctoral researcher won the Best
Paper
ACL-2005, the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics for his
paper,
A Hierarchical phrase-based model for statistical machine
translation.
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The Washington Times
highlights
the research of Bonnie Dorr
and the CLIP Lab
in an article which includes a quote from
Larry Davis. |
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