News & Announcements
Carl Kingsford recognized by Sloan Foundation
Mar 13, 2012 - Carl Kingsford was recognized with an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in evolutionary and computational molecular biology.
Wall Street Journal quotes Resnik and Shneiderman about Twitter
Mar 07, 2012 - Wall Street Journal quoted Ben Shneiderman and Philip Resnik for their articles on Twitter and public opinion.
The React Lab Project lets you respond to live TV
Mar 01, 2012 - Philip Resnik's mobile app for responding to live TV events second-by-second in real time using your smartphone was featured on the Kojo Nnamdi show.
Ashok Agrawala released the M-Urgency App
Jan 26, 2012 - M-Urgency, an app that sends live audio and video from your smartphone directly to the University of Maryland Police Department, enables fast and appropriate dispatch of emergency assistance.
Samir Khuller's mentee is a Intel Science Talent Search Finalist
Jan 25, 2012 - Samir Khuller's mentee, a Montgomery Blair High School senior, became one of 40 Intel Science Talent Search Finalists for his project on fast algorithms on multiple machines.
Min Wu’s former students received a Best Student Paper Award in the ACM Multimedia 2011 Conference
Jan 07, 2012 - The ACM ranked Min Wu’s PhD students paper top 3 out of 335 submissions: Ravi Garg and Avinash L. Varna won an award for their paper "Seeing’ ENF: Natural Time Stamp for Digital Video via Optical sensing and Signal Processing."
CS Grad Student has won an Information is Beautiful Award
Jan 07, 2012 - Grad Student Krist Wongsuphasawat won an award for showing the European debt crisis over time with his information visualization, European Bubbles.
Bederson named ACM Distinguished Scientist
Dec 29, 2011 - Ben Bederson's significant impact on the human computer interaction field made him a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Shneiderman named an IEEE Fellow
Dec 21, 2011 - Ben Shneiderman, who has been championing improved interoperability for electronic health records, has been recognized as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow.
Subhrahmanian quoted in the New York Times
Dec 05, 2011 - VS Subhrahmanian talks about Computer Science in Africa with the New York Times.