Recent News & Accomplishments

 2006

Jik-Soo Kim 's paper, " Resource Discovery Techniques in Distributed Desktop Grid Environments ", received a best paper award at the International Conference on Grid Computing in Barcelona, Spain. The paper was co-authored by Pete Keleher , Beomseok Nam , Michael Marsh , Bobby Bhattacharjee , and Alan Sussman .  read more
Adam Porter gave a lecture on his research at Google's first ever Conference on Test Automation. Click here to view the lecture, entitled " Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance " using Google Video.  read more
Justin Domke and Yiannis Aloimonos 's paper, " A probabilistic notion of camera geometry ", received a best paper prize at the 2006 Photogrammetric Computer Vision Conference in Bonn, Germany.  read more
V.S. Subrahmanian was a winner of a 2006 Computerworld Horizon Award for the Opinion Analysis System software developedhere at Maryland in partnership with the University of Naples in Italy. Article  read more
Jonathan Katz was invited to give a lecture in the "Cryptography and Security" session at the 2006 SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics .  read more
Chris Conroy was cited in a Wall Street Journal article on ID card security. Colleges Face Privacy Issues As ID Cards Collect More Data  read more
Aditya Kalyanpur , advisor Jim Hendler , was the primary author for the paper, " Repairing Unsatisfiable Concepts in OWL Ontologies " which was co-selected as best paper for the 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference.  read more
Jandelyn Plane received the CMPS Thelma M. Williams Advisor of the Year Award for 2006  read more
Michelle Hugue received the CMPS Outstanding Instructor Award for 2006  read more
John Shin, a senior CS major, is the college's Outstanding Undergraduate for 2006, and will be the student speaker at the college's graduation ceremony. View the transcript of Shin's Graduation Speech .  read more