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| • | Carl Kingsford received one of 12 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards in evolutionary and computational molecular
biology. These fellowships are given to early-career scientists whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders.
Kingsford is an expert in graph algorithms as applied to systems biology.
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| • | Ben Shneiderman and
Philip Resnik were quoted in the Wall Street Journal article,
“Mining Tweets for Public Opinion.” Shneiderman has developed techniques for analyzing social media, such as
the NodeXL Graph Gallery. Resnik, who is now lead
scientist for social-media analysis firm Converseon Inc, was also featured on
another WSJ article
about Twitter.
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| • | Philip
Resnik has made a mobile app for
responding to live TV events second-by-second in real time using your
smartphone. He was featured on the
Kojo Nnamdi show talking about his
React Labs project.
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| • | The M-Urgency App
was released to the broader UMD community today (Jan 25). The app for Android
phones, allows students and staff to share video,
audio and location information about their emergency with university police
dispatchers. For more information, click
here.
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| • | Samir
Khuller's mentee, Montgomery Blair HS
senior Frederic Koehler, is a 2012 Intel
Science
Talent Search Finalist . His award-winning project "Quick and
Efficient: Fast Algorithms for Completion Time and Batch Minimization on
Multiple Machines" is the only project representing the state of Maryland.
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| • | Two former PhD students, Ravi Garg and Avinash L. Varna and
Dr. Min Wu received a Best
Student Paper
Award in the ACM Multimedia 2011
Conference . Their
paper
“’Seeing’ ENF: Natural Time Stamp for Digital Video via Optical sensing
and Signal Processing" was ranked as top 3 out of 335 paper
submissions.
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| • | CS Grad Student Krist Wongsuphasawat has won the Interactive
Category of the Information
is Beautiful Award. His information visualization,
European
Bubbles, shows the
European Debt crisis over time.
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| • | Ben Bederson has been selected 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. Bederson has been recognized as one of the principal leaders in the field of human-computer interaction.
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| • | The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory’s early work on touchscreens was mentioned in a U.K’s Channel 4 story about
the Apple patent
war
with manufacturers to protect its patented smartphone technology. The touchscreen toggle switches video they refer to is in this early HCIL’s YouTube video made by
Catherine Plaisant. The HCIL webpage discussing our early
touchscreen work here.
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| • | VS Subhrahmanian was quoted in The New York Times' Science Section for the article "Vast and
Fertile Ground in Africa for Science to Take Root". Subhrahmanian's areas of expertise are in artificial intelligence, logic databases and multimedia systems.
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| • | Hanan Samet received the Best Demo Paper Award in 2011 ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Conference for the paper: “Porting a Web-Based Mapping
Application to a
Smartphone App.”
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