News & Announcements
Jacobs will receive Biodiversity Pioneer award
Jul 02, 2011 - 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.
Minker honored with Humanitarian Award
Jul 02, 2011 - 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.
Aloimonos's students won a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Jun 30, 2011 - Ching Teo and Yezhou Yang, students of Yiannis Aloimonos and Hal Duame have won one of
2011 Heinz R. Pagels Award goes to Jack Minker
Jun 15, 2011 - 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.
Rita Colwell receives 2011 George Brown Award
Jun 02, 2011 - CRDF Global has awarded Dr. Colwell one of 3 George Brown Awards for 2011.
Researchers win Google Research Award
Jun 02, 2011 - Phil Resnik and Ben Bederson (along with Chris Callison-Burch of Johns Hopkins) have been awarded a
Leafsnap Launches!
May 19, 2011 - A recent news story on WAMU 88.5 featured Leafsnap, an electronic field guide developed by Professor Dave Jacobs along with resea
Shneiderman talked to NYT about information visualization
Apr 04, 2011 - 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 sai
UMIACS featured on Research@Md.
Mar 31, 2011 - UMIACS is featured in the latest edition of Research@Maryland, published by the University of Maryland Division of Research.
Hanan Samet elected AAAS Fellow
Mar 17, 2011 - 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.