News & Announcements
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.
Resnik interviewed by ABC affiliate
Feb 23, 2011 - Professor Philip Resnik was interviewed by the DC ABC news affiliate, WJLA, before the IBM superc
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.
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
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
Samet named AAAS Fellow
Jan 06, 2011 - Hanan Samet has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of his seminal and foundational work in spatial data structures and reasoning.