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The International Children's Digital Library is featured in a Boston Globe article entitled, 'Gems for Children. (Feb 21)
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Usability Lab opens: the new facility is equipped with a user-testing laboratory and space for the Human Computer Interaction Laboratory. (Feb 11)
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Bederson's co-authored a new book titled "Voting Technology: The Not-so-simple Act of Casting a Ballot." The book is an in-depth look at the usability of various voting machine technologies, summarizing a three year NSF project. (Feb 11)
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Rita Colwell co-authored an article in Science on January 25 titled "Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria", which addressed the potential for a sustainable approach to supplying these basic services to Nigeria's poor by encouraging private companies to become involved. (Feb 11)
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Ben Bederson was the guest on an hour long public radio show in Seattle on KUOW on January 16. The topic was "The Future of the Cellphone." Bederson was also a guest on WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi's Tech Tuesday show on January 22 speaking on the same topic. Bederson was asked to do a monthly appearance on the show as well. (Feb 11)
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Allison Druin was interviewed by the St. Augustine Record on January 20. Druin who heads the Human Computer Interaction Lab works one-on-one with children to find out which technology will help their learning and where technology is headed. Druin says while mobile devices like cell phones are banned in many schools today, she expects them to become an integral part of education in the future.
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Ben Shneiderman was interviewed by Government Computer News on January 22. In the interview Shneiderman says computers are making people more visual, which is a good thing. (Feb 11)
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Golbeck and Lin comment on the shift from viewing software as packages residing on a personal computer to services provided over the network. (Feb 11)
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Montgomery Blair High School senior Louis Wasserman, 17, of Derwood is among 40 students nationwide competing for the $100,00 first-place scholarship and is one of two students from Maryland named finalists last week in the high school competition. Wasserman is working with UMIACS' Bill Gasarch. Article. (Feb 11)
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New applications translate speech and read documents in real time. Doermann discusses how his company is working on software for smart phones that could be used by the military for translation and by the visually impaired. (Feb 11)
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UMIACS Professor Ben Bederson appeared on WYPR radio in Baltimore (Feb 8) and mentioned that user error is one of the biggest problems contributing to inaccurate election results. (Feb 12)
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Julian Mestre (a PhD student of Samir Khuller's) won the best paper award at the SODA was awarded the best student paper award at the ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) - one of the top conferences in algorithms. Julian joined the Max Planck Institute in Germany on Oct. 1, but the paper is based on his work at Maryland. (Feb 5)
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Dave Levin, PhD student of Bobby Bhattacharjee and Aravind Srinivasan, has been awarded a prestigious Microsoft Live Labs Fellowship. Dave was one of four Live Labs Fellows selected. Congratulations to Dave, Bobby, and Aravind on this wonderful achievement. (Feb 1)
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UMIACS Professor Ben Bederson's views on cell phones were featured on the Kojo Nnamdi show. In addition, his recently issued report on voting technology was featured in Technology Review (Jan 29, 2008). (Feb 1)
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UMIACS Professor Ben Shneiderman was honored on his 60th birthday via the publication of a special issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction celebrating his accomplishments. Details here and here (pdf). (Feb 1)
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The International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction is honoring one of the field's founding fathers with a special edition. This issue (Volume 23, Issue 3), celebrates the 60th birthday of Ben Shneiderman. Article. (Jan 31)
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Ben Bederson was part of a team that conducted a five-year study on voting-machine technology. The team recently released a report on their findings. (Jan 29)
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David Doermann is among the cadre of University of Maryland scientists launching startup businesses with the school's help. Article. (Jan 28)
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Ben Bederson was a guest on an hour long public radio show in Seattle on KUOW topic was "The Future of the Cellphone." More coverage of the show at here. (Jan 18)
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Rita Colwell's article in Science, Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria, appears in Science. The article addresses the potential for a sustainable approach to supplying basic services to Nigeria's poor by encouraging private companies to become involved. (Jan 27)
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Ben Schneiderman says in an interview that the visual nature of the computer and the Web has exciting possibilities for the presentation and dissemination of information. (Jan 21)
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Adam Porter describes his research in a guest posting on the Google Testing Blog.(Jan 14)
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V.S. Subrahmanian's work on developing principled methods of generating forecasts of the behaviors of different groups worldwide was extensively discussed in a January 13 article in the Manila (Sunday) Times in the Philippines. link (Jan 15)
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Rama Chellappa is the recipient of the Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. (Dec 12)
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Two high school seniors from Montgomery County were named regional finalists in the nationwide Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. Louis Wasserman of Derwood and Benjamin Lu of Potomac were both awarded $1,000 scholarships from the Siemens Foundation. Bill Gasarch is Wasserman's official mentor.(Dec 12)
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A Clark School press release: "The next big leap in advanced computing technology just got a new name. It's 'ParaLeap. (Dec 8)
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Congrats to Shuvra Bhattacharyya on being a co-author of the paper titled "Low-overhead run-time scheduling for fine-grained acceleration of signal processing systems" co-authored with J. Boutellier and O. Silvn which won the best student paper award at the 2007 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Shanghai, China. (Nov 20)
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"Honda today awarded $50,000 advanced research grants to professors at seven U.S. universities. One of those awards went to David Jacobs of the University of Maryland: for the study of enhanced facial recognition computer algorithms for humanoid robotics." (Nov 16)
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Mannes and Subrahmanian comment on the use of computer technology by extremist groups. "When Hezbollah released the second version of its video game 'Special Force' in August, it demonstrated, yet again, how quickly terrorist groups have taken advantage of technology in order to propagate their worldview. While America dominates the fast growing multi-billion dollar video game industry, there has not yet been an effort to develop video games that counter Islamist extremism." (Nov 14)
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Scientists just published an analysis of the cat genome - in particular, of a 4-year-old Abyssinian cat. The DNA sequence is not yet complete, but the analysis of the "draft" genome captures many important feline genes, some of which are important in studying human diseases. Much of the analysis focuses on the difficulties of working with incomplete sequence, and the news stories include comments from UMIACS Professor Steven Salzberg on the technical challenges involved. (Nov 5)
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UMIACS researcher Aaron Mannes pens OpEd for the National Review Online where he writes "The question of who was behind Friday's assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto is the whodunit from hell and, instead of a pistol, the drawing room denouement will feature Pakistan's nuclear weapons." (Oct 23)
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Uzi Vishkin was named an "Innovator of the Year" by the Baltimore Daily Record. (Oct 12)
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Rama Chellappa received the Oustanding Research Award from the A. James Clark School of Engineering. (Oct 12)
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Graduate student Jusub Kim (ECE) won third place in the IBM Cell University Challenge. Nearly 80,000 students competed for the four awards. (Oct 9)
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Amy Karlson and Ben Bederson received one of three Brian Shackel Awards for "Outstanding Contribution with international impact in the field of HCI" at the INTERACT 2007 conference in Rio de Janeiro on September 12th. (Oct 9)
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UMIACS Professor Steven Salzberg has been named a Highly Cited Computer Science researcher in microbiology by ISIHighlyCited.com - a list of a little over 300 faculty members who have been most highly cited in their field.
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Uzi Vishkin's new desktop supercomputer was featured in a several news articles. (Oct 3)
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V.S Subrahmanian's report entitled, "Cultural Modeling in Real Time" appeared in Science Magazine. (Oct 3)
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Rama Chellappa was featured on the BBC for his pioneering work on gait recognition and using gait characteristics and other biometrics as a way of uniquely identifying people. (Oct 3)
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UMIACS researcher Cynthia Parr's work on the semantic web was reported on
by the New York Times (Sep 12).
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Yiannis Aloimonos gave a keynote address at the 2007 International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, Sep. 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.(Sept 24)
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Graduate students Vijay Gopalakrishnan and Ruggero Morselli along with faculty members Pete Keleher, Bobby Bhattacharjee and Aravind Srinivasan received the best paper award at the 14th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing this month for their paper on "Distributed Ranked Search". (Sept 16)
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A paper by Amy Karlson and Ben Bederson titled "ThumbSpace: Generalized One-Handed Input for Touchsreen-based Mobile Devices" won the best paper award at the INTERACT 2007 conference in Rio de Janeiro this month. (Sept 14)
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UMIACS Professor Uzi Vishkin's new desktop supercomputer was featured in a Computerworld Magazine article - see article.
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Professor Rama Chellappa is a recipient of the prestigious 2007 IBM faculty award. (Aug 31)
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UMIACS researcher Gang Qu's work on saving power in hand-held devices such as iPhones has been featured in MIT Technology Review's August 30 issue (Aug 31)
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UMIACS and CS professor Amitabh Varshney has been invited to deliver a joint plenary keynote on "Visualization and Persuasion" at the Symposium on Volume Graphics and the Symposium on Point based Graphics, September 2-4. (Aug 30)
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UMIACS researcher Aaron Mannes views on the decline of support for suicide bombings in the Muslim world were reported in the National Review Online (July 26)
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UMIACS Professor Ashok Agrawala's comments on potential security issues in the Apple iPhone were covered by the Baltimore Sun (July 24).
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UMIACS Professor Dana Nau's comments on automated poker playing computer programs were reported in the Washington Post (July 23).
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UMIACS researcher Catherine Plaisant's comments on visualization on Digg were reported by MIT Technology Review. (July 23)
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UMIACS FRA Aaron
Mannes was interviewed by Ohio Cable, about "Terror on Internet
Web servers owned by American Companies."
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Ben Shneiderman's exhibit "Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary" was featured on the WETA public TV web site
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Ashok Agrawala is quoted in the Washington Post on network problems occurring at Duke University because of the large number of iPhones in use there.
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V.S. Subrahmanian was quoted in the July 20th issue of Science
Magazine (pdf) discussing a new funding Department of Defense funding initiative to improve expertise in national security.
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UMIACS Professor Rita Colwell has been awarded the National Medal of Science by President Bush. The Medal of Science is our country's highest honor for science and is awarded to a small number of individuals whose work has had an unusually significant effect on the advancement of science. Dr. Colwell's pioneering research focuses on studying water borne pathogens and has led to demonstrable reductions in deaths due to diarrheal diseases such as cholera.
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ECE and UMIACS Professor Uzi Vishkin introduces new "Desktop Supercomputing" prototype capable of computing speeds 100 times faster than current desktops, the technology is based on parallel processing on a single chip. [Read more about it here]
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V.S. Subrahmanian gave a talk on "Computational Cultural Dynamics" on Capitol Hill on June 14, 2007. The talk was at
tended by US Representative Adam Smith (D-WA), Jim Cooper (D-TN) and Jim Sexton
(R-NJ) and several congressional staff members and others.
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The Wall Street Journal (European Edition) has published an article by UMIACS researcher Aaron Mannes on the recent denial of service attacks on the IT infrastructure of
Estonia.
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Professor Emeritus Jack Minker gave
an invited keynote address, ``Reflections on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic
Reasoning,'' at the International C
onference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning held in Tempe, Ari
zona, May 14 -- May 17, 2007.
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Chris Halaschek-Wiener's paper "To
ward Expressive Syndication on the Web" was a runner-up for best paper at this years World Wide Web conference.
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An international team of researchers including Steven Salzberg reported the first ever sequencing of european genomes of avian influenza virus, H5N1, in the May issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. The sequences
depict the lineages infecting wild and domestic birds in Europe and Africa and
show relationships between all strains.
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An article
in Science magazine on April 27 highlighted V.S. Subrahmanian's work on automated, real time methods to model the behaviors of foreign cultural groups and terror groups.
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Rama Chellappa and grad student Aravind Sundaresan won the most innovative invention of 2006 for their work on Markerles
s Motion Capture.
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Cornelia Fermueller's work has been highlighted in a publication
called "Bridges" put out by the Office of Scienc
e & Technology of the Government of Austria. The article recognizes Cornelia as a visionary scientist.
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Ben Shneiderman and Jennifer Preece's article "911.gov" on Community Response Grids was featured in the Feb. 16th issue of Science. The article has also been picked up by the BBC, New Scientist
, and Discovery.
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Bonnie Dorr and Necip
Fazil Ayan won best paper at the North American ACL conference this year for their paper "Combining Out
puts from Multiple Machine Translation Systems". The paper will appear in Proceedings of the North American
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Lise Getoor, CS and UMIACS, received a $63,000 Google Research Award for "Scalable Entity Resolution for Google Services".
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VS Subrahmanian, CS and UMIACS, and Bonnie Dorr, CS and UMIACS, were selected by Computerworld as winners of its 2006 Horizon Awards for most innovative new emerging software for their OASYS (Opinion Analysis System) software.
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Atif Memon, CS and UMIACS, was appointed to the Software Testing Verification and Reliability Editorial Board.
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Rama Chellappa, UMIACS and ECE, was featured in a Baltimore Sun article on January 5 about new behavior recognition software that enables computers to alert people when something, or someone, appears suspicious.
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Ben Bederson, CS and UMIACS, was featured in the Wall Street Journal on January 19 in an article about a new invention of his called DateLens that will be a new aid in calendar and appointment organization. The device is a free plug-in for your Windows-powered handheld device that zooms in on a specific day, week or month so you could see it in detail, reducing but not completely obscuring the surrounding days, weeks or months, allowing you to see how one appointment fits in with the rest of your scheduled life.
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Steven Salzberg, CS and UMIACS, Arthur Delcher, UMIACS, and Michael Schatz, research graduate student UMIACS, cracked a genome code, allowing an NYU researcher success in creating the genome of a parasite. The story was published on Eureka Alert on January 13.
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Ben Shneiderman, CS and UMIACS, was quoted in the Rediff News on January 31 commenting with caution about a new technology demonstrated by an NYU scientists that may allow photo manipulation on a monitor as if they were actual prints on a tabletop. Shneiderman calls Han a 'great showman' who has 'opened the door to exciting possibilities' but doesn't think Han's technology would be suitable for a large-scale consumer product.
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Ruby Kulles - one of the children participating in the ICDL was pictured in an AP news wire that was picked up by several media outlets that included the Washington Post, Forbes.com, CBS News, and on Yahoo news. The articles were about One Laptop Per Child. One Laptop Per Child is a new partner with the HCIL.
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Dianne O'Leary was named a Distinguished Scientist by the ACM.
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Yiannis Aloimonos's research and commentary on Geoffrey Hinton's work were featured in the article "Neural Networks Show New Promise for Machine Vision" in IEEE Magazine for Computing in Science and Engineering.
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Justin Domke, and Yiannis Aloimonos won best paper award at the Photogrammetric Computer Vision Conference that took place in Bonn- Sept 20-22, 2006.
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V.S. Subrahmanian has been selected for inclusion on ISIHighlycited.com - a web site run by Thomson Scientific and ISI as part of their ISI Web of Science citation rankings. According to ISIHighlycited.com, "ISIHighlyCited.com will grow to include the top 250 preeminent individual researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work--the intellectual debt acknowledged by their colleagues."
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Lise Getoor and Indrajit Bhattacharyya won best paper award at the SIAM Data Mining Conference
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Aravind Sundaresan and Rama Chellappa won "Best Student Paper Award" in the Computer Vision Track of the International Conf. on Pattern Recognition held in Hong Kong.
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William Arbaugh and T. Charles Clancy's paper entitled "Measuring Interference Temperature" submitted to 16th Annual Symposium on Wireless Personal
Communications was selected as "Best Paper".
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Students in Jim Hendler's Mindswap group: Aditya Kalyanpur, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin, and Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, won the Best Paper Award at the European Semantic Web Conference for their paper: "Repairing Unsatisfiable Concepts in OWL Ontologies."
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Former UMIACS Director Dr. Joseph JaJa's project, "Transcontinental Persistent Archives
Prototype" was among four winners of the first annual
Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) Awards. This program recognizes and encourages innovative advanced network
applications that
have had the most positive impact within the research and education community.--more--
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Dr. Ashok Agrawala has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the
Advance AAAS.
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Dr. Ben Bederson, Director, HCIL, has won the
prestigious IBM Faculty Award for his work on the Piccolo 2D graphics toolkit.
The award, for 2006, is $30,000.
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Dr. Rita Colwell has been inducted into the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences. She has also been recognized by the Japanese government with the "Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and
Silver Star" for her contribution to the Science and Technology collaboration between the US and Japan. Dr. Colwell is also being
recognized by NOAA as a Distinguished Scholar.
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Assistant Professor Amol Deshpande has recieved an NSF Career Award.
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UMIACS post-doc Jen Golbeck has been named one of the
IEEE Intelligent Systems 10 to Watch. This is their first ever top 10 AI list and will be featured in an article in the
May/June 2006 special issue on the Future of AI, which commemorates the
50th Anniversary of the Dartmouth Workshop (generally considered the birthplace of modern AI).
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The IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2005 Best Paper Award was given to
Assistant Professor Min Wu (and
several coauthors). The paper
Anti-Collusion Fingerprinting for Multimedia was published in April 2003.
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Dr. John Townshend, Project Director of
the GLCF and Chair of the UMD Geography Department,
is a
recipient of the prestigious 2005 William T.
Pecora award for "Outstanding Leadership in Advancing
Global Land Remote Sensing."
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Dr. Neil Spring
won the 2005 William R. Bennett Prize for the
paper Measuring ISP Topologies with Rocketfuel,
which was published in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking in 2004.
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Jack Kustanowitz, UMIACS graduate student, was the lead author on
Meaningful Presentations of Photo Libraries: Rationale
and Applications of
Bi-Level Radial Quantum Layouts, which won the Best Student Paper award at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
2005.
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Assistant Professor Gang Qu won a Trustworthy Computing (TWC)
Curriculum RFP
award from
Microsoft Research. Dr. Qu
received a $50,000 cash award for his winning project titled A Multidisciplinary and Integrated Approach to Raise the Global
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David Chiang a UMIACS postdoctoral researcher won the Best
Paper
ACL-2005, the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics for his
paper,
A Hierarchical phrase-based model for statistical machine
translation.
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The Washington Times
highlights
the research of Bonnie Dorr
and the CLIP Lab
in an article which includes a quote from
Larry Davis. |
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