Daumé and other faculty at Maryland will use the funding to spearhead a program that arms UMD doctoral students with unique tools and skill sets to advance language technology and language learning.
He suggested that incomplete fixes in computer security may be a cost/benefit decision, as issuing new certificates incurs expenses, while patching computers is free.
He will study the evolutionary and developmental function of the cephalic furrow in fruit flies, in collaboration with researchers from Japan and Germany.
The goal of the project is to give users an indication about possible longer-term consequences when they choose to share information online, in order to help them make more informed decisions.
She will use funding from the award to study ways to defend against non-black-box attacks, a class of cryptographic attacks that can be particularly damaging.
