Awards
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Amy Karlson & Ben Bederson won the Brian Shackel Award for making an “outstanding contribution with international impact in the field of HCI in 2007 for their paper “ThumbSpace: Generalized One-Handed Input for Touchscreen-Based Mobile Devices” in the Proceedings of INTERACT 2007.
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Ben Shneiderman Receives 2008 Board of Visitors Award from the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the Univ. of Maryland Pictured on May 16, 2008, Board Chair Raj Khera presents the Award, while Dean Stephen Halperin and Prof. James Yorke applaud. (May 2008)
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Graduate student Haixia Zhao wins award from the American Association for University Women (College Park Chapter) for her Ph.D. work on iSonic (May 2006)
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Graduate student Jack Kustanowitz wins best student paper award at JCDL 2005
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Faculty Research Associate Ryen White to receive the BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Award Voted best Computer Science Ph.D dissertation in the United Kingdom for 2004/5.
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Ben Shneiderman has won the IEEE Book Award for 2003 for his book, Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies -
Ben Shneiderman's book Leonardo's Laptop was a finalist in the Independent Publishers Book Awards 2003. -
Allison Druin was nominated by the White House and confirmed by the U.S. Senate for the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, (2003) -
Prof. Ben Shneiderman received ACM SIGCAS Making a Difference Award, (May 2001) -
Grad Student Anita Komlodi wins first place for presentation at UMD Graduate Research Day (May 2001) -
Grad Student Juan Pablo Hourcade wins second place for presentation at UMD Graduate Research Day (May 2001) -
Prof. Allison Druin wins UMD Outstanding Faculty Award (May 2001) -
Prof. Allison Druin and Dr. Catherine Plaisant and their kids team were finalists for the Invention of the Year Award given by the UMD Office of Technology Commercialization. -
Prof. Ben Shneiderman wins CHI Lifetime Achievement Award at CHI 2001 (April 2001) -
Grad Student Hilary Browne wins NSF Graduate Fellowship (March 2001) -
Grad Student Harry Hochheiser wins AOL Fellowship (March 2001) -
Prof. Ben Shneiderman elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (February 2001) -
Prof. Allison Druin wins NSF CAREER Award for her research on the Classroom of the Future (November 2000)
