News & Announcements
Larry Davis appointed Director of CFAR
Aug 01, 2012 - Larry Davis was appointed as the Director of the Center for Automation Research (CFAR), for a five year term starting August 1, 2012. Dr. Davis is an outstanding scholar in the field of computer vision.
CBCB Graduates Develop Algorithm for Correction and Assembly of PacBio RS Sequences
Jul 30, 2012 - CBCB graduates Sergey Koren, Michael Schatz, Adam Phillippy and others have developed and published an algorithm for the correction and assembly of PacBio RS sequences.
Dr. V.S. Subrahmanian appointed to the Board of Reviewing Editors (BoRE) of Science magazine
Jul 18, 2012 - Dr. V.S. Subrahmanian has been appointed to the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine.
Louiqa Raschid organizes an NSF Workshop on Next Generation Financial Cyberinfrastructure.
Jul 17, 2012 - Louiqa Raschid is co-organizer of an NSF Workshop on the Blueprint for the Next Generation Financial Cyberinfrastructure.
Yiannis Aloimonos's work on Childhood Autism Research featured in Terp Magazine
Jul 16, 2012 - Yiannis Aloimonos's work on applications for computer vision in childhood autism research is featured in an article titled "Baby Steps" in the Spring 2012 edition of Terp Maga
Ashok Agrawala wins awards for M-Urgency work
Jul 11, 2012 - M-Urgency, a system that sends live audio and video from your smartphone directly to the University of Maryland Police Department, was chosen for a Technology Champion of the Year award by the
Allison Druin wins Google Research Award for HCI
Jul 05, 2012 - Google Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty members at top universities around the world.
Uzi Vishkin awarded two new patents in 2012
Jul 02, 2012 - The USPTO grants Uzi Vishkin patents for "Computer memory architecture methods for hybrid serial and parallel computers" and "System and Method for Thread Handling in Multithreaded Computer Systems of Nested Threads".
Sridhar Hannenhalli named Interim Director of CBCB
Jul 01, 2012 - Sridhar Hannenhalli named Interim Director of CBCB.
Samir Khuller named Chair of CS
Jul 01, 2012 - Samir Khuller has been appointed Chair of the Department of Computer Science