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(Clockwise from top left in photo) Kianté Brantley, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Greg Davis and Marina Knittel each received a fellowship for academic year 2021–2022.
Four graduate students in the Department of Computer Science were just named recipients of the prestigious Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship. The fellowship provides a $15,000 stipend and other benefits to University of Maryland doctoral...read more
They have been doing research with UMD CS faculty members since they were in high school and middle school, respectively.
Naveen Raman , a junior computer science and mathematics double major at the University of Maryland, and Naveen Durvasula , a sophomore dual-degree student in electrical engineering and computer science and business administration at UC...read more
Program prepares high school students to take AP exams in computer science
This May, thousands of students across the country will put a year’s worth of computer science learning to the test—literally. The Advanced Placement (AP) exams for Computer Science A and Computer Science Principles will determine...read more
Joel Bartley (B.S. ’00, computer science) turns his lifelong passion for video games into a successful career as a game developer
Some people take on the challenges of video games for fun. For Joel Bartley (B.S. ’00, computer science), it’s a full-time job. Bartley is a lead gameplay programmer for Insomniac Games, an award-winning developer of...read more
Founding chair of UMD’s Department of Computer Science and strong advocate for human rights for scientists worldwide passed away April 9.
Jack Minker, professor emeritus and founding chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, passed away on April 9, 2021. Minker was a pioneer in artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic programming...read more
The workshop will run in tandem with Bitcamp, a 36-hour hackathon—held virtually this year—that was initially conceived by UMD students in 2013.
From detecting internet censorship as it occurs to exploring how artificial intelligence is improving smartphone cameras, undergraduates who are typically underrepresented in computing will explore these topics and more this weekend at the University of...read more
The third-year doctoral student in computer science, advised by Dinesh Manocha, was one of only 10 graduate students to receive an Adobe Research Fellowship this year.
A University of Maryland doctoral student in computer science recently received funding from Adobe Research to continue his innovative work in developing systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process and simulate human actions and...read more
Naveen Raman, a junior computer science and mathematics double major who is also a member of the Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students in the Honors College, was awarded scholarship by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and...read more
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04.23.2021 09:00 to 11:00
PhD Proposal: Effective Training and Efficient Inference of Deep Neural Networks for Visual Understanding
Hengduo Li
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PhD Proposal: Effective Training and Efficient Inference of Deep Neural Networks for Visual Understanding
Hengduo Li
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04.23.2021 15:00 to 16:30
Education Committee Meeting
https://umd.zoom.us/j/96673821945?pwd=S3djZFEwTmVFTnBMVTNveFpyM0huQT09
Education Committee Meeting
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04.26.2021 10:00 to 12:00
PhD Proposal: Practical Techniques for Leveraging Experts for Sequential Decisions and Predictions
Kianté Brantley
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PhD Proposal: Practical Techniques for Leveraging Experts for Sequential Decisions and Predictions
Kianté Brantley
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04.23.2021 09:00 to 11:00
PhD Proposal: Effective Training and Efficient Inference of Deep Neural Networks for Visual Understanding
Remote
PhD Proposal: Effective Training and Efficient Inference of Deep Neural Networks for Visual Understanding
04.26.2021 10:00 to 11:00
Schur-Weyl duality and symmetric problems with quantum input
Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99037346085?pwd=c1ozVU5lVWhLL3RvKzErbCtadDNGQT09
Schur-Weyl duality and symmetric problems with quantum input
04.26.2021 10:00 to 12:00
PhD Proposal: Practical Techniques for Leveraging Experts for Sequential Decisions and Predictions
Remote
PhD Proposal: Practical Techniques for Leveraging Experts for Sequential Decisions and Predictions
04.28.2021 11:00 to 12:00
"Think before you speak": Language Generation with Planning
Virtual - https://umd.zoom.us/j/93207947099?pwd=c096Z3JrZ1FGSXVEVjFWL29PQUV1dz09
"Think before you speak": Language Generation with Planning
05.05.2021 11:00 to 12:00
TBD
Virtual - https://umd.zoom.us/j/93207947099?pwd=c096Z3JrZ1FGSXVEVjFWL29PQUV1dz09
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