Department Lecturer Position - Full Time
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA has an opening for a Lecturer to teach lower level undergraduate courses involving programming, discrete structures, and/or HTML/Javascript in Fall 2012.
Faculty Positions: Cyber Security and Software Systems
Faculty positions in Cyber Security
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA has two openings for faculty positions effective July 1, 2012 or earlier in Cyber Security or a related area. The openings are at the tenure-track Assistant Professor level and at the "junior-level" tenured Associate Professor level. Applicants will be considered for joint appointments between the Department and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).
Faculty position in Software Systems
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA has one opening for faculty positions effective July 1, 2012 or earlier in Software Systems or a related area. The opening is for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or "junior" tenured Associate Professor. Applicants will be considered for joint appointments between the Department and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).
Faculty position and Director of CBCB
The University of Maryland invites applications for Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Candidates are expected to be prominent scholars with publications and research experience at the interface of biological science and computing. Their primary responsibility will be to lead a nationally visible research program complementing existing strengths in computational genomics, proteomics, and molecular evolution. They will also be expected to promote the CBCB, and help build collaborative relationships, both on and off-campus.
Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) Symposium
The Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) Symposium will be held on May 15-16 in the Riggs Alumni Center. Features cutting edge research on cybersecurity being done at the University of Maryland, tutorials by Maryland faculty, and panels and keynotes from outside experts.
More details at http://umiacs.umd.edu/mc2symposium/
Research Spotlight: Computer Vision Laboratory
Computer Vision at the University of Maryland has a history of more than 40 years. The Computer Vision Laboratory was established by Prof. Azriel Rosenfeld in the 1960's. He is widely regarded as the father of the field, having written the first textbook on the subject, established the first scientific journal (Computer Graphics and Image Processing), and founded the first international conference (International Conference on Computer Vision). He published over 500 journal and conference papers on almost all aspects of computer vision and image processing.
Over 100 computer science students have received their Ph.D.'s in computer vision since the Laboratory was established, while a number of alumni have gone on to great success around the world.
CS Department Ranked Among Top Graduate Producers
The Wall Street Journal's recent Path to Professions feature ranked the Department 10th among schools producing the best CS graduates, according to recruiters.Samet Selected Editor-in-Chief of New ACM Journal
Professor Hanan Samet has been selected by ACM to serve as the Founding Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the new ACM journal titled: ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS).Samet Awarded ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
Hanan Samet is the recipient of the 2012 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award. Dr. Samet won this award for fundamental contributions to the development of multidimensional spatial data structures and indexing.
The full press release at http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2012/technical-awards-2011 cites the following contributions as the basis for the award:
"Dealing with multidimensional numerical data naturally arises in spatial, optimization, and learning problems. Accessing such information rapidly requires efficient and preferably elegantly simple data structures. If a distance metric can be associated to data, then spatial data structures may be used to index and to navigate data quickly and hierarchically. Such structures are ubiquitous in myriad areas, including databases, biomedical imaging, computer graphics and vision, geographic information systems, geometry, games, computational physics, and scientific computation.
In his pioneering research since the 1980s on quadtrees and other data structures, as well as his well-received books, Prof. Hanan Samet has profoundly influenced the theory and application of multidimensional spatial data structures. His contributions to, and application of, incremental nearest neighbor search, metric navigation of spatial structures, and spatial data mining exemplify the breadth of his work, the impact of which can be seen in a wide array of practical applications.
In addition to this body of work, his 1975 Ph.D. thesis on formal proofs of correctness of compilers, and the symbolic execution of compiled execution sequences, was among the earliest contributions to the field that twenty years later became known as translation validation for compilers."
The award will formally be presented to Hanan at the ACM Turing Centenary Celebration in San Francisco in June.
Dr. Getoor To Give Lecture
Dr. Lise Getoor is giving a distinguished lecture at the Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing.Student Receives NDSEG Fellowship
Alex Malozemoff has been selected from over 3000 applicants as one of the recipients of a 2012 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Alex is currently a first year student working with Professor Jonathan Katz.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.
