News & Announcements
UMIACS featured on Research@Md.
Mar 31, 2011 - UMIACS is featured in the latest edition of Research@Maryland, published by the University of Maryland Division of Research.
Hanan Samet elected AAAS Fellow
Mar 17, 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.
O'Leary was Tufts' 2011 Norbert Wiener Lecturer
Mar 15, 2011 - Professor Dianne O'Leary was the 2011 Norbert Wiener Lecturer for Tufts University.
Hajiaghayi won ONR's Young Investigator Award
Mar 08, 2011 - Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi has won a 2011 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award for his proposal on "Efficient Algorithms for Strategic Problems in Network Design"
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
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
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.
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.