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Catherine Plaisant—an internationally renowned expert in human-computer interaction and information visualization—has retired from a career at UMD marked by many notable contributions in research, scholarship and service.

She joins the University of Maryland on July 1 as an assistant professor of computer science, focused on using powerful computational tools to unlock the full breadth of information available in genomic data.

The funding supports efforts to promote diversity and fairness in a variety of pipeline and selection problems that use artificial intelligence.

The advisory board will assist Coleridge Initiative staff working with government agencies—at the federal, state and local levels—in creating value for taxpayers via the careful use of data.

The five-year agreement is expected to drive transformational advances in artificial intelligence and autonomy.

University researchers are advancing a concept known as foveated rendering, a computational technique that uses innovative eye-tracking software to replicate natural human eye function in virtual and augmented reality.

The spatial audio experts have been funded to improve computational models used to simulate the human perception of auditory signals.

Victor Albert, a physicist at NIST and one of the newest QuICS Fellows, loves getting to the bottom of things, distilling problems to their most basic and general mathematical root.

Proposals for an award are reviewed for the quality of their scientific content, their creativity, and their potential to impact both the research community and society in general.

Joy Kitson’s research is focused on developing large-scale epidemic simulations that are used to model a wide variety of diseases and public health interventions.