In the Media
April 2012
March 2012
CS Department Featured on Software Engineer Insider
Dr. Hollingsworth was recently interviewed for an article on Software Engineer Insider that details the Computer Science program and the opportunities that undergrads are likely to expect upon graduation.
CS Alumnus Named Sloan Fellow
James Bremer, who received a B.S. degree from the University of Maryland in 2001 with a double major in Math and Computer Science, has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Foundation Fellowship. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University in 2007. Bremer is currently a faculty member at the University of California at Davis. He studies wave reflections from complex objects.
The full list of Sloan Foundation Fellows can be found here.
January 2012
April 2011
When the Data Struts Its Stuff
April 2, 2011 NY Times, Slipstream: "When the Data Struts Its Stuff". Ben Shneiderman discusses the state of visual analytics.Full story
March 2011
Want A Job? You Ought To Be A Tech Geek
March 4, 2011 NPR, Undergraduates Ederlyn Lacson and Ray Douglas were interviewed by NPR about the strong job market for CS students. "Want A Job? You Ought To Be A Tech Geek".
October 2010
September 2010
New pi record exploits Yahoo's computers
Dr. Tsz Wo (Nicholas) Sze who received his Ph.D. from the department in 2007 has broken the record on computing pi. More on this achievement can be found at: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19465-new-pi-record-exploits-yah
July 2010
May 2010
Apps: Hot Course on Campus
May 19, 2010 - Fortune Magazine, p. 22, "Apps: Hot Course on Campus". Full article
Programming the iPhone
May 4, 2010 Fox 5, "UMD Students Working on Next Big App". Full story
April 2010
ICDL: Chicago Students Face Off in Battle of Books
April 17, 2010 ABC 7 News, WLS-TV Chicago "Chicago Students Face Off in Battle of Books". Full story
ICDL: The iPad Meets the Children's Book
April 8, 2010 Publisher's Weekly "The iPad Meets the Children's Book". Full story
August 2009
Netgrok featured in Linux Magazine
NetGrok, a tool for visualizing computer networks in real-time, was featured in a cover story on security visualization for the September 2009 issue of Linux Magazine.
Netgrok was developed by CS graduate students Ryan Blue, Cody Dunne, Adam Fuchs, Kyle King and Aaron Shulman as part of a Spring 2008 Information Visualization course.
July 2009
In memoriam: Harold Edmundson
Professor Emeritus Harold P.Edmundson passed away on July 9, 2009. Professor Edmundson held a joint appointment in Computer Science and the Mathematics Department from 1967 until 1991 when he retired. "Ed" was a volunteer in Rocky Mountain National Park until shortly before his death. His obituary is located at: www.allnutt.com.
Describing video content through speech
Abhinav Gupta and Larry Davis' recent CVPR 2009 paper, on describing storylines of videos, was featured in IEEE Spectrum article and on the front-page of Discovery Tech News. The paper describes a technique to automatically generate blurbs describing the plays of the baseball game. This research was done in collaboration with researchers at Univ. of Pennsylvania.
May 2009
Mike Hicks talks about "live" updating for Linux
Mike Hicks and his former student, Iulian Neamtiu, were quoted in an MIT Technology Review article on a company developing "live" updating for Linux. The UMD project web site detailing their research on dynamic updating was linked in the article.
More information can be found at: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22674/page2/
Identifying trees from iPhone photos
Dave Jacobs' work on recognizing trees from iPhone pictures has been described in a CNN Science-Tech blog post. More information is available at: http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/04/future-iphone-app-may-identify-trees-from-photos/
April 2009
Steven Salzberg talks with WTOP about the Swine Flu
Steven Salzberg was interviewed on WTOP on Sunday, April 26, about the swine flu in Mexico. The interview is available on their website at http://www.wtop.com/?sid=595567&nid=92 and you should be able to download it to an MP3 file here: http://www.wtop.com/emedia/151552.mp3
Steven Salzberg quoted in Science about his research
Steven Salzberg was quoted in Science about his research on the cow genome.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43190/description/Cattle_genome_sequenced
Mihai Pop talks about CLuE Initiative
Mihai Pop was highlighted in a NSF press release on Cloud Computing and his research as part of the Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) program.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114686&org=NSF&from=news
