News & Announcements

BBC interviewed Agrawala about M-Urgency App

Oct 03, 2011 - 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

Second PhD student won a CEAS 2011 Best Paper Award

Oct 01, 2011 - 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-

Daumé, Getoor and Deshpande won 2011 Yahoo! Faculty Research Award

Sep 22, 2011 - Hal Daumé III, Lise Getoor and Amol Deshpande, won the 2011 Yahoo! Faculty Research Award.

New MC2 Associate Director wrote an op-ed for Baltimore Sun

Sep 19, 2011 - Eric Chapman, the new associate director for the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, wrote an op-ed published on the Baltimore Sun: “Online informatio

Resnik, Bederson and JHU Callison-Burch awarded Google Research Award

Sep 08, 2011 - Phil Resnik and Ben Bederson (along with Chris Callison-Burch of Johns Hopkins) have been awarded a

Language Science Day 2011 is coming

Sep 06, 2011 - 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.

Agrawala interviewed about M-Urgency

Sep 03, 2011 - Ashok Agrawala was recently interviewed on Fox DC for the story "M-Urgency Phone App L

Dorr interviewed about her work with DARPA

Sep 01, 2011 - Bonnie Dorr was interviewed for an article about the programs she is overseeing at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

LeafSnap App receives wide media coverage

Sep 01, 2011 - Leafsnap, an electronic field guide to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves, has received wide media coverage.

Porter interviewed about the mobile app job market

Aug 31, 2011 - Adam Porter was invited to discuss the booming job market in mobile application development on

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