Recent News & Accomplishments

 2007

Ben Bederson discussed The Future of the Cellphone on The Conversation, a public radio program on KUOW Seattle.  read more
Adam Porter discusses his research in a guest posting on the Google Testing Blog .  read more
Samir Khuller gave a Google Tech talk titled Algorithms for Data Storage and Migration .  read more
Jonathan Katz was invited to speak at INDOCRYPT 2007 and the 11th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding .  read more
Katrina LaCurts and Morgan Dixon received Honorable mentions for the 2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Award from the Computing Research Association.  read more
Jack Minker's paper, Developing a Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland , was published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.  read more
Julian Mestre's paper, "Adaptive Local Ratio", was selected Best Student Paper for SODA 2008. Julian recently received his Ph.D. in August.  read more
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