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.
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.
He has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to algorithms, probabilistic methods, and networks, making him the eleventh UMIACS member to receive this honor.
