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Major awards received by our faculty

• Full Listing of Major Awards
• National Academy Memberships
• Fellows of Professional Societies
• Awards from Professional Societies
• Major University Awards
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Faculty organized: Alphabetically, Position, Research Areas.

National Academy Memberships

National Academy of Engineering Member

• Ben Shneiderman, 2010
  Inducted for research, software development and scholarly texts concerning human-computer interaction and information visualization.
• G.W. (Pete) Stewart, 2003
  For the development of numerical algorithms and software widely used in engineering computation.

Fellows of Professional Societies

AAAI Fellow     American Association for Artificial Intelligence

• Laveen Kanal, 1992
  For contributions to pattern recognition and heuristic search procedures and their application in the machine recognition of patterns.
• Jack Minker, 1990
• Dana Nau, 1996
  For contributions to the fields of AI search algorithms, AI planning, and AI applications in design and manufacturing.
• VS Subrahmanian, 2009
  For significant contributions to the study of probabilistic databases, logic programming and agent-based systems.

AAAS Fellow     American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Ashok Agrawala, 2005
• Laveen Kanal, 1972
• Raymond Miller
• Jack Minker
• Steven Salzberg
• Ben Shneiderman
• VS Subrahmanian, 2008

ACM Fellow     Association for Computing Machinery

• Vic Basili, 1997
  For contributions to empirical software engineering.
• Joseph Ja'Ja'
  For contributions to the design and analysis of parallel algorithms, algebraic and combinatorial complexity, VLSI architectures, and high-performance computing.
• Raymond Miller, 1997
  For research contributions to the theory of parallel computation and for his distinguished service to the Computer Science community as an educator and leader.
• Jack Minker, 1994
  For championing the rights of scientists to practice their profession freely and openly, for bringing to public attention the names of scientists deprived of their scientific freedom and human rights, and for giving these victims hope and making them aware of ACM's support.
• Dianne O'Leary, 2006
  For mentoring activities and contributions to numerical algorithms.
• Nick Roussopoulos, 2001
  For outstanding contributions to the principles and practice of database management and for leadership in academia and service to the ACM community.
• Hanan Samet, 1996
  For research and contributions in the area of hierarchical data structures for applications in spatial data bases for computer graphics, image processing, geographic information systems, and robotics.
• Ben Shneiderman, 1997
  Ben Shneiderman has been a leader in the field of computer-human interaction, seeking to extend benefits of computing technology to a broad constituency.
• Uzi Vishkin, 1996
  One of the pioneers of parallel algorithms research, Dr. Vishkin's seminal contributions played a leading role in forming and shaping what thinking in parallel has come to mean in the fundamental theory of Computer Science.

CSAB Fellow     Computer Science Accreditation Board

• Raymond Miller, 2003
  In recognition of his outstanding professional volunteer contributions to computing sciences and accreditation.

IAPR Fellow     International Association for Pattern Recognition Fellow

• Rama Chellappa, 1996
  For contributions to theory and applications of Markov Random Fields and computer vision
• Larry Davis, 2002
  For contributions to computer vision and image understanding.
• Leila DeFloriani, 1998
  For contributions to geometric modeling and algorithm design for computer vision applications
• Laveen Kanal, 1994
  For outstanding contributions to Markov random field models, search strategies, hybrid linguistic-statistical models and reasoning in uncertain domains
• Hanan Samet, 1996
  For contributions to hierarchical data structures for image analysis and representation

IEEE Fellow     Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

• Ashok Agrawala, 1991
  Distributed algorithms and policies for computer systems.
• Vic Basili, 1990
  Software quality and productivity.
• Rama Chellappa, 1992
  Statistical model based approaches for two-dimensional spectral analysis and image processing.
• Larry Davis, 1998
  Computer vision, image processing and high performance computing.
• Joseph Ja'Ja', 1996
  Parallel computing, combinatorial algorithms, algebraic complexity, and digital signal processing architectures.
• Laveen Kanal, 1972
  The advancement of the theoretical understanding of computation through work in switching theory and theoretical models.
• Raymond Miller, 1970
  The advancement of the theoretical understanding of computation through work in switching theory and theoretical models.
• Jack Minker, 1991
  Deductive databases, disjunctive logic programming, and artificial intelligence.
• Hanan Samet, 1991
  The area of hierarchical data structures for applications in spatial databases for computer graphics and image processing.
• Aravind Srinivasan, 2010
  For contributions to randomized algorithms and probabilistic methods
• Andre Tits, 1998
  For contributions to optimization-based design and robust control
• Amitabh Varshney, 2010
  Scientific visualization and computer graphics
• Marv Zelkowitz, 1997
  The development of practical programming environment for effective software development.

Packard Fellow

• Bill Pugh, 1991

Awards from Professional Societies

AAAI/ACM

• Jack Minker
  • The Allen Newell Award, 2005
    For his fundamental contributions to the fields of deductive databases, logic programming, artificial intelligence, and, more generally, logic-based methods in Computer Science and for his truly unprecedented role in organizing and stimulating scientific discourse.

ACM

• Vic Basili
  • ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award, 2000
• Ben Bederson
  • ACM CHI Academy, 2011
  • ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award, 2010
• Raymond Miller
  • ACM Distinguished Service Award, 2002
    For strengthening and nurturing computer science as a profession and as a discipline. Throughout his career, departments, journal boards, technical committees, accreditation processes, curriculum revision initiatives, conferences, workshops, and numerous other professional activities have benefited from his judgment, leadership and energy.
• Jack Minker
  • ACM Outstanding Contribution Award
• Ben Shneiderman
  • ACM SIGCAS Making a Difference Award Winner, 2001
  • ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, 2001
  • ACM SIGDOC Rigo Award, 1996
    For research on human-computer interacton.
• Marv Zelkowitz
  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award, 2000

IAPR

• Rama Chellappa
  • Best Paper Award, 1992
• Laveen Kanal
  • IAPR King-Sun Fu Award, 1992
    For contributions to pattern recognition

IEEE

• Vic Basili
  • IEEE Computer Society, Harlan D. Mills Award, 2003
    For significant contributions to programming languages, program reading and writing, and empirical methods.
  • IEEE Computer Society, Society of Golden Core, 1996
    For various contributions to the Society's success.
• Rama Chellappa
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society, Technical Achievement Award, 2001
• Raymond Miller
  • IEEE Computer Society, Society of Golden Core, Charter Member, 1996
  • IEEE Third Millenium Medal, 2000
• Ben Shneiderman
  • IEEE Computer Society, Software Process Achievement Award, 2004
    Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Godard Space Flight Center, (associated with NASA Goddard, University of Maryland, and Computer Sciences Corporation), "In recognition of the Software Engineering Laboratory's long record of sustained achievement in software process improvement."
  • IEEE Distinguished Literary Contribution, 2003
    For "Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies".
• Amitabh Varshney
  • IEEE VGTC, Technical Achievement Award, 2004
    In recognition of Seminal Achievements in Scientific Visualization of Molecular Surfaces.

Major University Awards

CMPS Board of Visitors Distinguished Faculty Award     The award is given annually to a tenured faculty member for outstanding accomplishments over the previous five years that have contributed significantly to raising the profile and visibility of the College.

• Dianne O'Leary, 2007
• Ben Shneiderman, 2008

CMPS Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence

• Emad Emad, 2007
  Received the Outstanding Instructor Award in CMPS for 2007.
• Samir Khuller, 1995
• Jan Plane, 2009
  Received the Outstanding Instructor Award in CMPS for 2009.
• Adam Porter

Univ Maryland Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow

• Rama Chellappa, 1996-1998

Univ Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher

• Rama Chellappa, 2003
• Samir Khuller, 2006
• Jack Minker

Univ Maryland Distinguished University Professor

• G.W. (Pete) Stewart, 2006

Univ Maryland Distinguished Young Scientist

• Bonnie Dorr, 1996

Univ Maryland Presidential Medal

• Jack Minker

Honorary Degrees

• Vic Basili
  • Laurea Honoris Causa in Informatic Engineering, 2004. University of Sannio, Benevento (BN), Italy
  • Department of Computer Science and Fraunhofer IESE, 2005. University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
• Dianne O'Leary
  • Doctor of Mathematics Honoris Causa, 2005. University of Waterloo, Canada.
• Ben Shneiderman
  • University of Guelph, Canada, 1996
  • University of Castilla-LaMancha, 2010