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Ming Lin and Samir Khuller Elected to the Computing Research Association’s Board of Directors

University of Maryland’s Distinguished University Professor Ming Lin and Emeritus Professor Samir Khuller have been elected to the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors. CRA is a North American organization that brings together academic...read more

Hitting His Stride—In Athletics and Academics

Senior Maxwell Myers conquers the challenges of track and computer science and clinches a career opportunity at Microsoft.

University of Maryland computer science major Maxwell Myers knows what it takes to be a winner. From the day he joined the track team as a freshman at Howard High School in Ellicott City, Md.,...read more

Computer Science Alum Kyle Orland Authors New Book About the Puzzling Origins of Minesweeper

Wordplay is all in a day’s work for the seasoned video game writer

Kyle Orland (B.S. ’04, computer science ; B.A. ’04, journalism) played the computer game Minesweeper anywhere he could find a personal computer as a kid in the ’90s: the computer nook in his middle school’s...read more

CS Alums Craig and Sharon Stanfill Give Back To ‘Foundational’ Department

The Stanfills named a classroom in the Brendan Iribe Center and made a $3 million estate gift to establish an endowed chair in enterprise computing.

Craig Stanfill (Ph.D. ’83, computer science) discovered he had a knack for programming in high school. After a brief stint as a biochemistry major at Michigan State University—Stanfill described himself as a klutz in the...read more

Christopher Metzler Receives Seed Funding to Study Neural Synchrony

Chris Metzler , an assistant professor of computer science and a faculty member in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) has received seed funding from the Brain and Behavior Institute (BBI)...read more

Book Authored by Ben Shneiderman Wins Literary PROSE Award

The book, Human-Centered AI, won the computing and information sciences category.

A book authored by Emeritus Professor Ben Shneiderman was recognized by the Association of American Publishers with a prestigious Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) award . The awards, now in their 47th year, acknowledge books,...read more

UMD Students Win Fourth Place in Putnam Mathematical Competition

CS major Clarence Lam helped UMD earn a No. 4 ranking among 456 institutions in one of the most prestigious mathematics contests for undergraduates in North America. CS major Philip Guo also placed in the top 200 individual scores.

On a chilly Saturday in December 2022, 26 University of Maryland undergraduates made their way across campus to a large classroom in the John S. Toll Physics Building. Equipped with only pencils and scrap paper,...read more

Computer Science Faculty Receive Inaugural UMD Grand Challenges Grants

The University of Maryland recently awarded $30 million to 50 projects through its Grand Challenges Grants Program, an institution-wide initiative to tackle major societal issues. The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) received...read more

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