Recent News & Accomplishments
2007
Atif Memon has been invited to serve on a National Academy of Sciences Panel as an expert in the area of Computer Science and Information Technology, for the Pakistan-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperative Program , sponsored by United States Agency for International Development (USAID). read more
The Symposium on Software Engineering honoring Emeritus Professors Victor Basili and Marvin Zelkowitz was held October 6, 2007 in the Computer Science Instructional Center. Pictures: http://www.cs.umd.edu/special-events/sse-2007/ Presentations: http://webapps.cs.umd.edu/sse07/presenters.php read more
Aravind Srinivasan and his co-inventors have been awarded a U.S. patent on fault-tolerant routing of data in networks. read more
Louis Wasserman's research project in circuit complexity theory was selected to be a Regional Finalist in the Siemens Westinghouse competition. Louis Wasserman is a high school student working with Dr. Gasarch. read more
Amitabh Varshney delivered a joint plenary keynote on "Visualization and Persuasion" at the Symposium on Volume Graphics and Symposium on Point-based Graphics Sep 2 - 4. read more
Lise Getoor gave an invited talk at the 3rd Workshop on Combining Logic and Probability at the University of Kent, Cantebury, UK. read more
Jessica Montgomery was selected to receive the Department's Semi-Annual Staff Award for the period January through June 2007. read more
Yuan Yuan 's work entitled "UnChannelize the Channels in WLANs" won second prize in the ACM Student Research Competition held at MobiCom 2007. read more
Jessica Chang, who recently finished undergraduate degree, will present her paper "Broadcast Scheduling: Algorithms and Complexity" at the ACM-SIAM SODA conference in San Francisco in January 2008. read more