- October
- Jointly sponsored CIS & CSD Distinguished Lecturer Geri Gay presents, "Mobile Health - Social Influence and Emotional Support in Context" on October 22, 2009.
- September
- Distinguished Lecture Series presents Jon Kleinberg, "Meme-tracking, Scheduling, and the Dynamics of the News Cycle" on October 15, 2009.
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- November
- The paper "Social Trust Based Web Service Composition", by Ugur Kuter and Jennifer Golbeck, has won the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009).
- October
- Mike Hicks has been invited (and accepted) to serve on DARPA's ISAT panel.
- Dr. Jorge Lobo has been elevated to the rank of Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Jorge received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1990 under the direction of Professor Jack Minker. Jorge currently works at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory.
- Marvin Zelkowitz (Professor Emeritus in Computer Science) gave a keynote talk on "The Science of Software Engineering" at the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Orlando, Florida, October 15-16, 2009.
- Archive
Joint Distinguished Lecturer Geri Gay
Geri Gay, Kenneth J. Bissett Professor and Chair of Communication at Cornell University presents "Mobile Health - Social Influence and Emotional Support in Context".
- Date: October 22, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Location: CSIC Building, Room 1115
This talk will focus on how mobile phones can be used to employ various forms of motivation, both social and individual, to encourage healthy behavior. Motivators such as competition, cooperation, control, and recognition that have been leveraged to bring about behavior change in many circumstances. Social influence has been shown to play an important role in persuasion and the motivation of behavior change; countless studies, both involving technology and not, have shown that individuals grouped with peers have better results in quitting drinking, quitting smoking, losing weight, exercising, and even surviving cancer. This research explores social influence and also emotional support through two context-aware mobile applications developed in our HCI lab at Cornell and designed to encourage healthy behavior.
This lecture is jointly sponsored by the College of Information Studies and the Department of Computer Science. Read more...
Distinguished Lecture Series presents Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg, Tisch University Professor from Cornell University presents "Meme-tracking, Scheduling, and the Dynamics of the News Cycle".
- Date: October 15, 2009
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Location: CSIC Building, Room 1115
The flow of news through on-line networks has created a complex landscape of media sources and led to rich datasets that provide glimpses into how news is produced, shaped, and consumed. We begin by discussing methods for studying how news stories spread through such a system, using an approach that tracks short pieces of as they travel and mutate across news sources. This type of analysis can be effective at capturing temporal patterns in the news over a daily time-scale --- in particular, the succession of story lines that evolve, compete for attention, and collectively produce an effect that commentators refer to as the `news cycle.' We then show how a detailed analysis of temporal dynamics can suggest novel optimization problems in the scheduling of news stories and other on-line media. Specifically, given a supply of featured content and data on user attention over time, we consider how to sequence the content in a way that maximizes the size of the audience.
This is joint work with Lars Backstrom and Jure Leskovec. Read more...
View slides and presentation: http://www.cs.umd.edu/talks/dls/2009/kleinberg/
Research Spotlight: Software Engineering
The Software Engineering Group at the University of Maryland has focused in two areas experimentation and quality assurance. The group is a strong believer in empirical study and experimentation. Empirical software engineering involves the scientific use of quantitative and qualitative data to understand and improve the software product, software development process and software management. Our history has been in isolating problems faced by software organizations in developing and analyzing systems, identifying or proposing solutions, and empirically validating if, when and where the solutions are effective.
Best paper award ISWC
The paper "Social Trust Based Web Service Composition", by Ugur Kuter and Jennifer Golbeck, has won the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009).
Ugur Kuter received his Ph.D. from our department in 2006. He is now an Assistant Research Scientist in UMIACS.
Jennifer Golbeck received her Ph.D. from our department in 2005. She is now an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in our department.
Mike Hicks to server on DARPA's ISAT panel
Mike Hicks has been invited (and accepted) to serve on DARPA's ISAT panel. ISAT was established in 1987 by DARPA to support its technology offices, providing continuing and independent assessment of the state of advanced information science and technology and their relationship to DoD issues. Please join me in congratulating Mike.
Dr. Jorge Lobo elevated to Distinguished Scientist by ACM
Dr. Jorge Lobo has been elevated to the rank of Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Jorge received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1990 under the direction of Professor Jack Minker. Jorge currently works at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory.
Keynote Talk: Marvin Zelkowitz
Marvin Zelkowitz (Professor Emeritus in Computer Science) gave a keynote talk on "The Science of Software Engineering" at the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Orlando, Florida, October 15-16, 2009.
Faculty Positions - Apply by October 15, 2009
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA has several openings for faculty positions effective July 1, 2010 or earlier. Applicants will be considered for joint appointments between the Department and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). We invite applications from junior and senior candidates to fill the following positions:
- Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Computational Biology (1 position):
This is a joint hire with the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Interested candidates can learn more about CBCB at: http://cbcb.umd.edu.
- Assistant Professor - Artificial Intelligence / Database Systems (1 position):
Candidates with background in social networks are especially sought.
- Assistant Professor - Natural Language Processing (1 position):
Preference given to candidates at the interface of NLP and machine learning.
- The Jack and Rita G. Minker Professorship:
Exceptional junior and senior level candidates will be considered. Junior candidates must have at least 3 years of experience to be eligible for this position. This is an endowed professorship in computer science with a joint appointment in UMIACS. Candidates in all areas of computer science will be considered with special attention to those applicants working in new or innovative areas of the discipline. The professorship honors the pioneering contributions of Rita Minker in the early development of computer science, and Jack Minker for his research in AI and his work in support of human rights for scientists.
Applications from women and minority candidates are especially welcome.
Please submit your application (curriculum vitae, teaching statement, and research summary) for positions online at: hiring.cs.umd.edu and have your references upload their letters to that site. At least three letters assessing research and one assessing teaching are required. The review of applicants will be on-going; therefore, we encourage your early application. Applications completed by October 15, 2009, will receive full consideration.
Additional information about the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies is available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.cs.umd.edu and at http://www.umiacs.umd.edu.
The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.
