News & Announcements
MC2 Associate Director Quoted in Washington Post Article
Apr 26, 2013 - Eric Chapman, associate director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center, part of UMIACS, is quoted in today's Washington Post regarding the White House backing away from its push for mandatory cybersecuri
$30K gift from Xerox Foundation supports UMIACS research
Apr 18, 2013 - David Doermann, senior research scientist at UMIACS, and Raja Bala, principal research scientist at Xerox Research Center Webster, are combining their expertise in document ima
UMD and Carr Astronautics Announce New Corporate Partnership
Apr 16, 2013 - University of Maryland Press Release
April 5, 2013
CBCB develops three new packages for the Bioconductor project
Apr 05, 2013 - CBCB develops three new packages for the Bioconductor project - 'metagenomeSeq', 'antiProfiles' and 'bumphunter'.
Hector Corrada Bravo and collaborators release Healthvis
Apr 03, 2013 - Hector Corrada Bravo and collaborators released healthvis, a system to easily produce and share interactive data visualizations commonly used in health applications, this week.
Philip Resnik's React Labs smartphone app helps journalists win the 2013 Walter Cronkite Award
Mar 28, 2013 - React Labs' real-time smartphone polling application helped a team of journalists win a 2013 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism.
Lise Getoor's students win Best Paper Award at SBP 2013
Mar 26, 2013 - Lise Getoor's students Jeonhyung Kang and Kristina Lerman win Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction (SBP 2013)
Hanan Samet honored in the March 2013 issue of CACM
Mar 15, 2013 - The March 2103 issue of Communications of the ACM (CACM) carries a tribute to Hanan Samet, recognizing his pioneering work on spatial databases.
UMD papers recognized with awards at CHI 2013
Mar 08, 2013 - UMD wins two Best Paper Awards and two Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards at CHI 2013
Mohammad Hajiaghayi's student wins Simons Award for Graduate Students in Theoretical Computer Science
Mar 07, 2013 - Rajesh Chitnis, Ph.D. student in Computer Science, has been awarded the Simons Award for Graduate Students in Theoretical Computer Science.