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Congrats to grad students Adam O'Donovan and Derek Juba on receiving the prestigious NVIDIA fellowships. UMD is the only university with two recipients.
Congratulations also to their advisor, Ramani Duraiswami, and to Amitabh Varshney. (Ap 28)
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Steven Salzberg was quoted in Science Magazine commenting on the idea of building a wiki style environment around Genbank. (Mar 21)
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A UMIACS team lead by Prof. Rama Chellappa and consisting of UMIACS/CS Professors Yiannis Aloimonos, Larry Davis, Ramani Duraiswami and David Jacobs won a 2008 MURI award for their proposal to develop face, gait, long-distance speech and other motion-based human recognition algorithms tailored to the maritime domain. The team is partnered with Columbia University, University of California at Colorado Springs and University of California at San Diego. (Mar 20)
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Ben Shneiderman's article on Science 2.0 in Science Magazine has drawn press coverage in places like Wired Magazine, Indo-China News Service, PhysOrg. (Feb 15)
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Dianne O'Leary received three honors just this past week:
She'll be the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer at the SIAM Annual meeting, July 7, in San Diego:
As of January 2009, Dianne will serve as editor-in-chief of SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.
Dianne is also one of four plenary speakers at the 2008 SIAM Conference on Data Mining, Atlanta, April 25. (Mar 4)
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The Lab for Computational Cultural Dynamics' SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) and social network site for terrorism related analysis and prediction was featured in several major news media (Feb. 26). STOP provides methods for reasoning about terror groups and forecasting what they might do in the future. In addition, it contains unique social networking capabilities that allow analysts to effectively cooperate in order to better understand and counteract terror groups. Articles by: Computerworld
Magazine, UPI News, Network World.
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UMIACS Professor Allison Druin's work was featured in the MIT Technology Review. (Feb 26)
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