Awards
- 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)
- Ben Bederson received IBM Faculty Award for Piccolo open source 2D graphics toolkit (December 2005)
- Graduate student Jack Kustanowitz wins best student paper award at JCDL 2005
- 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)
