News & Announcements
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.
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."
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.
Samet awarded ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Best Demo Paper Award
Dec 01, 2011 - 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
Samet received 2011 ACM SIGSPATIAL Distinguished Service Award
Nov 29, 2011 - 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
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Chellappa named AAAS Fellow
Nov 29, 2011 - Rama Chellappa has been elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow.
Resnik interviewed by the New Scientist
Nov 21, 2011 - Philip Resnik was interviewed by New Scientist for the article
Hicks selected as new MC2 Director
Nov 20, 2011 - 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.