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Can AI and People Play Nice?

Jordan Boyd-Graber uses a fast-paced trivia competition to study how people decide when to trust AI and when to rely on their own judgment.

Artificial intelligence has rapidly transformed from a novelty into a powerful tool capable of outperforming even expert humans in some knowledge-based tasks. In “Can AI and People Play Nice?,” Terp explores how University of Maryland...read more

UMD Study Finds Critical Cloud Security Patches Often Never Reach Their Destination

Computer science Ph.D. student Simge Tekin led the study, which analyzed more than 750,000 container images and found gaps that can leave cloud systems exposed.

A software patch may be available, but that doesn't mean it's protecting the systems that need it. A new study from the University of Maryland and Google Research reveals that critical security updates often become...read more

Mohammad Hajiaghayi Earns ACM SIGecom Test of Time Honors

Mohammad Hajiaghayi , the Jack and Rita G. Minker Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, will be recognized with two Test of Time Awards from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest...read more

UMD Team Develops Precise “Undo Button” for AI Memory

Led by Soheil Feizi, researchers developed a method that can remove specific information from AI models without diminishing their broader abilities.

Imagine trying to remove a single drop of red dye from a gallon of purple paint without ruining the color entirely. For developers of large language models (LLMs), that has long been the challenge of...read more

Alan Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Monitoring of AI and Cloud Systems

The five-year project will develop new telemetry methods to help operators monitor large-scale AI and cloud systems more efficiently.

Alan Liu , an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award to advance research on telemetry and observability...read more

Ashok Agrawala to Retire After 55 Years

Agrawala’s career spans the department’s early years, decades of work in systems, networking and mobile computing, and the program’s growth into a top-ranked computer science program.

When Ashok Agrawala arrived at the University of Maryland in 1971, computer science at the university was still taking institutional shape. The Department of Computer Science had not yet been formally established, the personal computer...read more

Rob Patro Makes Biological Data Easier to Search

He discusses his path into computing, his work in computational genomics and advice for students interested in computational biology.

University of Maryland Associate Professor of Computer Science Rob Patro works in computational genomics, where his research addresses the growing need to process and interpret large amounts of biological sequencing data. He leads the COMBINE...read more

CS Students Receive Grant Family and Ben Shneiderman Awards

The awards recognize undergraduate double majors in computer science and mathematics and doctoral research in human-computer interaction.

The University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science recognized four undergraduate students and one doctoral student with awards honoring work across computer science, mathematics and human-computer interaction. Recent computer science and mathematics majors Nishkal Hundia...read more

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