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| • | Ben Shneiderman
has been
named a Fellow of the Institute
of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Shneiderman has been championing
improved interface designs, consistency, and interoperability for
electronic health records.
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| • | Rama
Chellappa has
been elected as an American Association
for the
Advancement of Science Fellow. Chellappa is considered an expert in
the
fields of Signal and Image Processing, Computer Vision and Image analysis,
Neural Networks for Computer Vision, amongst others.
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| • | Ben Bederson
has been recognized by the Association for
Computing Machinery as
a Distinguished Scientist for his significant accomplishments in HCI and
impact on the field of computing.
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| • | Philip
Resnik was
interviewed by New Scientist for the article
“How innovative is Apple's new voice assistant, Siri?” Resnik
specializes
in Computational linguistics and his research in language technology has
focused on machine translation, crowdsourcing and translation and
computational social science.
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| • | Michael Hicks
will serve as the
Director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2). Hicks research focus
is on developing and evaluating techniques to improve software reliability
and security. For
more information about his role at MC2, click here.
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| • | Shuvra
Bhattacharyya and his students received Best Student
Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, held
in Beirut, Lebanon on early October, for their paper:
“Vectorization and mapping of software defined radio applications on
heterogeneous multi-processor platforms.”
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| • | David Jacobs
received the 2011 Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity
Technology Pioneer Award for co-pioneering
Leafsnap - the first mobile
app for plant identification. This award, presented by the American
Computer Museum, honors individuals who contribute to the preservation
of
biodiversity. His co-pioneers from the Smithsonian
Institution and Columbia
University also received this award.
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| • | Eric Chapman, the new associate director for the Maryland
Cybersecurity Center, wrote an op-ed published on the Baltimore
Business
Journal:
“Don’t leave cyber security to experts; you should be the first
line of defense.” Chapman was previously a professional staff member
on
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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| • |
Ashok Agrawala was recently interviewed on the BBC for the story "Mobile phone
applications built to save lives" to talk about M-Urgency, a new
safety App developed at UMD. Agrawala has been recognized as an expert on
location-awareness technology and is known for his research on large-scale
wireless networking, and hard real-time systems design.
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| • | Jay Pujara, a second year PhD student working with Lise
Getoor and
Hal Daume III , won a best paper award at the 8th Annual Collaboration,
Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference (CEAS 2011) for Using
Classifier Cascades for Scalable E-Mail Classification
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| • | Jack
Minker, Professor Emeritus,
received the 2011 Heinz R. Pagels Award at The New York Academy of Sciences' Annual Meeting. The award is given to scientists for their contributions to
safeguard or advance the human rights of scientists throughout
the world. To find out more, read the UMIACS Feature on Dr. Minker and a news story featured on The Diamondback.
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| • | Hal Daumé
III,
Lise Getoor and
Amol Deshpande, won the 2011
Yahoo! Faculty Research Award. As
2011 Faculty Research and Engagement
Program recipients, they will have access to Yahoo! data and
collaborate with Yahoo! research scientists.
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| • | Eric Chapman, the new associate
director for the Maryland
Cybersecurity Center, wrote an
op-ed published on the Baltimore Sun:
“Online information needs better protection.” Chapman was previously
a professional staff member on the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence. His primary areas of expertise are Policy,
Legislation, Corporate and Government Partnerships.
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| • |
Ashok Agrawala was recently interviewed on Fox DC for the story "M-Urgency Phone App Launches on University of
Maryland
Campus" to talk about M-Urgency, a new safety App developed at UMD.
Agrawala, who helped to invent the technology, was also featured on
Washington Channel
9 and WAMU
88.5’s news story,
“UMD-College Park Rolls Out New Safety App For Students' Smartphones.”
Agrawala has been recognized as an expert on location-awareness
technology and is known for his research on large-scale wireless
networking, and hard real-time systems design.
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| • | Bonnie Dorr
was
interviewed for an article about the programs she is overseeing at the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The article was
featured on
AFCEA’s Signal Magazine. Dorr has been known for her research on
roadscale
multilingual processing, specifically on interlingual machine
translation,
summarization, and linguistically-informed statistical models. |
| • | Leafsnap, an electronic field guide to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves, has received wide media coverage. The App has been featured on The New York Times and MSNBC, among many
others. The technology was developed by Professor David Jacobs along
with researchers from Columbia University and the Smithsomian Institution.
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| • | Language Science Day 2011
will take place on September 16.
Co-sponsored by UMIACS, LSD2011 hopes to bring together the cross-departmental community of language
science students and faculty at the University of Maryland. To find more
information about this event,
click
here.
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| • | Adam Porter
was invited to discuss the booming job market in mobile
application development on
The Kojo Nnamdi Show's “Tech Tuesday: Where the Jobs Are." Porter has been known for his research on
software development, software testing and quality assurance. His work
currently focuses on leveraging end-user computers to improve software
quality assurance.
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| • |
Michael
Cukier was interviewed for an article on the government’s need for
cybersecurity experts, featured on the
Huffington Post‘s Technology
Section. Cukier has been known for his research on dependability
and security issues, lately focusing on the empirical quantification of
cyber security.
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| • | Joseph JaJa
has been interviewed for an article on digital archiving, featured on
the front page
of the
Washington Post's Metro Section. JaJa has been leading the
development of technologies for building infrastructure for the long-term
access and preservation of digital assets together with the National
Archives and Records Administration. |
| • | Ben Shneiderman
was quoted in the New York Times
Business Section's article on standards for electronic health records
(EHR),
“Seeing Promise and Peril in Digital Records.” Shneiderman has been
championing improved interface designs, consistency, and interoperability
for electronic health records.
|
| • | Phil Resnik and
Ben Bederson (along with Chris Callison-Burch of Johns Hopkins) have been awarded a
Google Research Award for their project "Translate the World: A Unified Framework for
Crowdsourcing Translation". The award facilitates interaction between Google and academia and comes with an award of $150,000.
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| • | Ching Teo and
Yezhou Yang, students of
Yiannis Aloimonos and Hal Daumé III have won one of
eight Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships based on their proposal “Robots need language: A computational model for integration of vision, language and action”
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| • | A recent news story on WAMU 88.5 featured Leafsnap, an electronic field guide developed by Professor Dave Jacobs along with researchers from Columbia University and the Smithsomian Institution. Leafsnap uses visual software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves and includes the trees of New York City and Washington, DC.
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| • | UMIACS is featured in the latest edition of Research@Maryland, published by the University of Maryland Division of Research.
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| • | Professor Dianne O'Leary was the 2011 Norbert Wiener Lecturer for Tufts University. From March 30 — April 1, she delivered the three lectures, one for a very broad audience, one at the level of a colloquium, and one more specialized in mathematics. Past Wiener Lecturers have included Persi Diaconis, Nick Trefethen, James Yorke, Margaret Wright, Sigurdur Helgason and Jeff Weeks.
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| • | Professor Ben Shneiderman was interviewed for the New York Times article on information visualization, "When the Data Struts Its Stuff." "The purpose of visualization", he said, "is insight, not pictures." Dr. Shneiderman also discussed the risks, benefits, and privacy implications of visualizations of personal data.
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| • | Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi has won a 2011 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award for his proposal on "Efficient Algorithms for Strategic Problems in Network Design"
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| • | UMD student poster wins at AAAS 2011 Student Poster Competition. The poster, entitled "Using Monolingual Crowds to Improve Translation", was presented by Yakov Kronrod (Linguistics), and featured work by Yakov, Chang Hu (CS), Olivia Buzek (CS and Linguistics undergrad), and Alexander J. Quinn (CS), and was the winning poster in the Math, Technology, and Engineering category.
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| • | MonoTrans2, software developed by Ben Bederson and Philip Resnik, was referenced in a recent article in New Scientist. Dr. Resnik and his former student Adam Lopez were also quoted in the article on crowdsourcing translations.
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| • | Professor Philip Resnik was interviewed by the DC ABC news affiliate, WJLA, before the IBM supercomputer Watson took on Ken Jennings in Jeopardy!
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| • |  Professor Ben Shneiderman was presented with the prestigious Miles Conrad Award on February 28, 2011 at the NFAIS 53rd Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Shneiderman delivered the Miles Conrad Lecture on "Social Discovery in an Information Abundant World".
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| • | Professor Uzi Vishkin has received worldwide press coverage following the publication of his article "Using Simple Abstraction to Reinvent Computing for Parallelism" in the January 2011 edition of the Communications of the ACM. His interview has been picked up by InfoWorld, CIO India, Computerworld UK, PC Advisor, PC World, Techworld, and many others.
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| • | Science Watch has recognized UMD to be amongst the top two in the world (with Harvard) in cholera-related research, based on Rita Colwell's pioneering work.
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| • | Hanan Samet has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of his seminal and foundational work in spatial data structures and reasoning.
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