News & Announcements
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
Cukier interviewed about cyber security
Aug 08, 2011 - Michael Cukier was interviewed for an article on the government’s need for cybersecurity experts, featured on the Huffington Post‘s
Shneiderman interviewed about EHR by the New York Times
Jul 17, 2011 - Ben Shneiderman was quoted in the New York Times Business Section's article on standards for electronic health records (EHR),
JaJa interviewed on a front-page Washington Post article
Jul 13, 2011 - Joseph JaJa has been interviewed for an article on digital archiving, featured on the front page of the
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.
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