News & Announcements
UMD and Appian Corporation Announce New Corporate Partnership
Jan 22, 2013 - The University of Maryland (UMD) today announced Appian Corporation as its newest member of the Corporate Partners in Computing (CPIC) program.
Mihai Pop and his colleagues present "MetAmos", a new metagenomic assembly and analysis pipeline
Jan 16, 2013 - MetAmos aims to solve some problems that other genome assemblers have with metagenomic data.
Amy Weinberg named Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL)
Jan 09, 2013 - Amy Weinberg has been named the Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Language, replacing Founding Director Dr. Richard Brecht. As CASL’s deputy executive director, Dr. Weinberg has been instrumental in molding the center’s strategic partnerships and research agenda.
Ben Shneiderman’s Information Visualization class projects get mentoned in World Bank's blog
Jan 08, 2013 - The World Bank has featured a flattering blog post about student projects from Dr. Ben Shneiderman's Information Visualization class.
Leafsnap named as one of Scientific American's top 10 apps for smart phones and tablets
Jan 02, 2013 - Leafsnap is a mobile app that uses visual-recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.
Ben Bederson now part of the CHI Academy
Dec 26, 2012 - Ben Bederson elected to be part of the Association for Computing Machinery’s CHI Academy, an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction.
Lise Getoor, her student, and colleagues win Best Paper Award at the 2012 ASE International Conference on Social Informatics
Dec 19, 2012 - Lise Getoor, her student, Hossam Sharara, and colleagues, Lisa Singh and Janet Mann, won the Best Paper Award at the 2012 ASE International Conference on Social Informatics, held in Washington D.C from December 14-16
Jim Reggia wins the Graduate School Research and Scholarship Award for Summer 2013
Dec 19, 2012 - Jim Reggia wins the Graduate School Research and Scholarship Award for Summer 2013.
Larry Davis elected as a Fellow of ACM
Dec 18, 2012 - Professor Larry Davis has been elected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for his contributions to image processing and computer vision.
Dr. Michael Cummings and team publish results of a study that identifies genetic loci associated with drug resistant malaria parasites in Southeast Asia
Dec 17, 2012 - Dr. Michael Cummings and an international team have published results of a study that identified genetic loci associated with drug resistant malaria parasites in several countries in Southeast Asia.