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The researchers discussed the application of quantum information science to physics.

She has studied cholera for more than 40 years, looking at satellite data, gene sequencing and easily adaptable means of water filtration in areas where large amounts of Vibrio cholerae bacteria are present in water.

HCIL will be well-represented at ACM's CHI 2015 Conference in Seoul, with 11 papers accepted, including several from Jon Froehlich’s group, which won two honorable mention "Best of CHI" awards, and Catherine Plaisant being inducted into the CHI Academy.

He co-authored a chapter in the "Handbook of the History of Logic" on the history of deduction in databases, highlighting his pioneering work in deductive and disjunctive deductive databases, including the development of the Generalized Closed World Assumption.

He co-teaches a popular online Bitcoin course and a graduate seminar on cryptocurrencies at UMD, drawing on his expertise in Bitcoin research and its technical aspects.

They co-authored a report identifying key challenges and research opportunities at the intersection of quantum information science, particle physics, and computing.

The funding, which was awarded through the NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund, will support five workshops for high school and undergraduate students to spark an interest in computing fields.

Birdsnap, a field guide for identifying birds in the wild, has been downloaded 25,000 times and builds on the work that Jacobs has done in the field of identifying human faces.

His latest project studies how snow and icy conditions affect human decisions about transportation.

He spoke about the different ways hackers can penetrate an agency’s network.