Recent News & Accomplishments

 2006

Jonathan Katz gave a week-long course on Zero Knowledge: Foundations and Applications in Bertinoro, Italy.

Jonathan Katz gave a week-long course on Zero Knowledge: Foundations and Applications in Bertinoro, Italy.  read more

Maryland Software Day was held November 3 as a forum for UMD and Fraunhofer software researchers to discuss their research with interested parties from on- and off-campus.

Maryland Software Day was held November 3 as a forum for UMD and Fraunhofer software researchers to discuss their research with interested parties from on- and off-campus.  read more

Jessica Chang was selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2007.

Jessica Chang was selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2007.  read more

Jessica Chang was chosen as a Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar for 2006-07.

Jessica Chang was chosen as a Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar for 2006-07.  read more

Lise Getoor gave an invited talk at the Machine Learning Symposium at the New York Academy of Science.

Lise Getoor gave an invited talk at the Machine Learning Symposium at the New York Academy of Science.  read more

Dianne O'Leary was named a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM.

Dianne O'Leary was named a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM.  read more

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.

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.

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.

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.

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