2001 Highlights


December 2001
	Bill Arbaugh discusses computer security with the Scripps Howard News Service.
	Vic Basili selected as a finalist in the World Technology Awards 2001.
	Ben Shneiderman featured in Federal Computer Week article about National ID Cards.
	Allison Druin quoted in San Francisco Chronicle article about the latest crop of children's toys.
November 2001
	Ben Shneiderman testified before the House Committee on Government Reform Hearing "Does America Need a National Identifier?"
	Min Wu has won the NSF CAREER Award. Her proposed work will focus on signal processing approaches for multimedia security and information protection.
	James Hendler discussed Artificial Intelligence on Maryland Public Television's "Direct Connection" on Tuesday, November 27.
October 2001
	ITR project to improve access to Holocaust archives featured in articles in New York Times and Wired. Doug Oard is the Maryland PI for the research team.
	Allison Druin and HCIL research team featured on Maryland Public Television's new live show, "Direct Connection" on Tuesday, October 23 at 6:00 PM.
	Learn more about UMIACS centers, laboratories, and partnerships in our new brochure (PDF File, 1.01MB, 3 minutes over 56K).
September 2001
	National Science Foundation announces ITR awards, including four with UMIACS faculty. Maryland PIs for these projects are Doug Oard, Philip Resnik, Alan Sussman, and Samir Khuller.
	James Hendler featured in an Associated Press article about software agents used to sift through intelligence information which ran in the Montgomery Journal, Yahoo!, and other news media.
	NIST announces award for a Secure Wireless Infrastructure Test Bed as part of its Critical Infrastructure Protection Grants Program. Bill Arbaugh and Ashok Agrawala are UM PIs.
August 2001
	Bill Arbaugh's work on wireless security is mentioned in a new article in InfoWorld.
	An article in Techway magazine describes the joint collaboration of AnthroTronix and the HCIL in creating JesterBot to help children with speech, learning or physical disabilities.
	Another new article citing extensively the work of Bill Arbaugh on wireless security
	Converge Magazine names Allison Druin as one of the Shapers Of Our Future 2001.
	UMIACS Newsletter Spring '01 (Adobe PDF format, 500KB)
July 2001
	Rama Chellappa appointed Director of CfAR effective July 1, 2001, for a period of five years.
	Allison Druin's work appears in the Business Section of the Washington Post
	Rama Chellappa and Larry Davis are the UMD PIs on the winning teams of three different Collaborative Technology Alliances (Advanced Sensors, Advanced Decision Architectures, and Robotics) announced by ARL
June 2001
	Workshop on Computer Vision and Image Analysis to commemorate Prof. Azriel Rosenfeld's career
	HCIL Graduate Student Harry Hocheiser's work on TimeFinder is described in ComputerWorld
	Sun Microsystems' latest computing powerhouse, the SUN Fire 6800 midframe server, arrives at UMIACS, under the SUN Center of Excellence program.
May 2001
	HCIL Graduate Student Harry Hocheiser's work on TimeFinder is described in ComputerWorld
	HCIL Annual Symposium and Open House, May 31 - June 1, 2001
	Allison Druin wins the University of Maryland Parents' Association 2001 Outstanding Faculty Award
April 2001
	Jim Hendler is a co-author of an article in Scientific American on the semantic web
	Ben Shneiderman featured in a COMPUTERWORLD article
	New Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology established
	Bill Arbaugh's work on network security is cited in a New York Times article.
March 2001
	The Maryland Information and Network Dynamics (MIND) Lab is established
	NSF Fellowship awarded to graduate student Hilary Browne
	Shuvra Bhattacharyya receives a DARPA award on polymorphous architectures
February 2001
	Faculty Recruitment Seminars
	Bobby Bhattacharjee and Don Yeung receive the prestigious NSF Early CAREER Award
January 2001
	Philip Resnik, Bonnie Dorr and Amy Weinberg receive a MURI award.
	Rama Chellappa wins the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2000 Technical Achievement Award