News & Announcements

O'Leary was Tufts' 2011 Norbert Wiener Lecturer

Mar 15, 2011 - Professor Dianne O'Leary was the 2011 Norbert Wiener Lecturer for Tufts University.

Hajiaghayi won ONR's Young Investigator Award

Mar 08, 2011 - Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi has won a 2011 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award for his proposal on "Efficient Algorithms for Strategic Problems in Network Design"

AAAS 2011 Student Poster Competition's award goes to UMD

Feb 24, 2011 - UMD student poster wins at AAAS 2011 Student Poster Competition. The poster, entitled "Using Monolingual Crowds to Improve Translation", was presented by Yakov Kronrod (Linguistics), and featured work by Yakov, Chang Hu (CS), Olivia Buzek (CS and Linguistics undergrad), and Alexander J.

HCI's early work on smartphone technology featured on UK's channel 4

Feb 23, 2011 - The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory’s early work on touchscreens was mentioned in a U.K’s Channel 4 story about the Apple patent war with manufacturers to pro

Shneiderman received Miles Conrad Award

Feb 23, 2011 - Professor Ben Shneiderman was presented with the prestigious Miles Conrad Award on February 28, 2011 at the NFAIS 53rd Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Dr.

Resnik interviewed by ABC affiliate

Feb 23, 2011 - Professor Philip Resnik was interviewed by the DC ABC news affiliate, WJLA, before the IBM superc

MonoTrans2 software developed

Feb 15, 2011 - MonoTrans2, software developed by Ben Bederson and Philip Resnik, was referenced in a recent article in

IEEE Computer's Special Issue on Technology Mediated Social Participation was Guest Edited by Ben Shneiderman.

Jan 20, 2011 - IEEE Computer's Special Issue on Technology Mediated Social Participation was Guest Edited by Ben Shneiderman.

Because of Colwell, UMD is among the top

Jan 19, 2011 - Science Watch has recognized UMD to be amongst the top two in the world (with Harvard) in cholera-related research, based on Rita Colwell's pioneering work.

Vishkin's article receives worldwide press

Jan 12, 2011 - Professor Uzi Vishkin has received worldwide press coverage following the publication of his article "Using Simple Abstraction to Reinvent Computing for Parallelism" in the

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