- October
- Jointly sponsored CIS & CSD Distinguished Lecturer Geri Gay presents, "Mobile Health - Social Influence and Emotional Support in Context" on October 22, 2009.
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- November
- David An and Michael Furr received the best student research paper, co-authored with Prof. Jeff Foster at OOSPLA'09 for their paper titled, "Profile-Guided Static Typing for Dynamic Scripting Languages".
- Saeed Alaei and Azarakhsh Malekian received the best student paper award for their paper, "An analysis of troubled assets reverse auction" at WINE 2009 held in Rome.
- The Department's ACM team won the ACM Mid-Atlantic Programming Contest in early November and has advanced to the 2010 ACM-ICPC World Finals to be held in Harbin, China. The team includes CS undergrads Alan Jackoway, Mitchell Katz, and Matt McCutchen with coaching provided by Prof. Amol Deshpande
- 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).
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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...
Research Spotlight: Computer Systems
Computer Systems provides the foundation upon which all other software applications rely. The goal of systems research is to develop the key abstractions and services that enable software to be efficiently and portably run on hardware. Areas of interest to the systems group include operating systems, computer networks, parallel and distributed computation, and computer security.
Best Student Research Paper, OOSPLA 2009
David An and Michael Furr received the best student research paper, co-authored with Prof. Jeff Foster at OOSPLA'09 for their paper titled, "Profile-Guided Static Typing for Dynamic Scripting Languages".
Best Student Paper Award, WINE 2009
Saeed Alaei and Azarakhsh Malekian received the best student paper award for their paper, "An analysis of troubled assets reverse auction" at WINE 2009 (Workshop on Internet and Network Economics) held in Rome.
Terps place first in ACM programming contest
The Department's ACM team won the ACM Mid-Atlantic Programming Contest in early November and has advanced to the 2010 ACM-ICPC World Finals to be held in Harbin, China. The team is one of the top 100 teams out of 7,000 teams competing, representing 1,800 universities in 88 countries. The contest will be sponsored by IBM and hosted by Harbin Engineering University. The Finals are scheduled this year for early February. The team includes CS undergrads Alan Jackoway, Mitchell Katz, and Matt McCutchen with coaching provided by Prof. Amol Deshpande.
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.
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.
