News & Announcements
Aloimonos's students won a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Jun 30, 2011 - Ching Teo and Yezhou Yang, students of Yiannis Aloimonos and Hal Duame have won one of
2011 Heinz R. Pagels Award goes to Jack Minker
Jun 15, 2011 - Jack Minker, Professor Emeritus, has been awarded the 2011 Heinz R. Pagels Award. The award is given to scientists for their contributions to safeguard or advance the human rights of scientists throughout the world.
Rita Colwell receives 2011 George Brown Award
Jun 02, 2011 - CRDF Global has awarded Dr. Colwell one of 3 George Brown Awards for 2011.
Researchers win Google Research Award
Jun 02, 2011 - Phil Resnik and Ben Bederson (along with Chris Callison-Burch of Johns Hopkins) have been awarded a
Leafsnap Launches!
May 19, 2011 - A recent news story on WAMU 88.5 featured Leafsnap, an electronic field guide developed by Professor Dave Jacobs along with resea
Shneiderman talked to NYT about information visualization
Apr 04, 2011 - Professor Ben Shneiderman was interviewed for the New York Times article on information visualization, "When the Data Struts Its Stuff." "The purpose of visualization", he sai
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"