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Cybersecurity Experts Brace for the Next Crisis After the CrowdStrike Near-Disaster

James Purtilo emphasizes how the CrowdStrike incident reveals national security vulnerabilities, with attackers using AI to outpace cybersecurity defenses.

This past summer’s “CrowdStrike incident” – which began as a “minor” error – came as close to a total system crash as the world has yet seen. It grounded airlines, hospitals were forced to cancel...read more

Dinesh Manocha Receives 2024 Jimmy Lin Award for Innovation and Invention

He was recognized for his patent on multimodal emotion recognition.

University of Maryland Distinguished University Professor Dinesh Manocha has been awarded the 2024 Jimmy Lin Award for Innovation and Invention . Manocha, who holds joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science and the Department...read more

AI-Generated Misinformation is Everywhere. ID’ing It May Be Harder Than You Think

UMD experts explain the emotional and cognitive challenges, offering strategies to avoid them.

Artificial though it may be, the concept of “intelligence” doesn’t seem to jibe with a computer-generated image of uniformed cats toting assault rifles. Yet that visual slur, which supports a debunked story about immigrants in...read more

Two Ph.D. Students Receive Larry S. Davis Doctoral Dissertation Award

Yuxiang Peng and Yiling Qiao each received the award for the 2024–25 academic year.

The University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science has announced the recipients of the 2024-25 Larry S. Davis Doctoral Dissertation Award. Yuxiang Peng (Ph.D. '24, computer science), who will join Purdue University in fall 2025,...read more

UMD Researcher Awarded $364K to Make Data Analysis Faster and More Accessible

Modern datasets are massive—they can contain billions of values and an overwhelming amount of information. The data itself is invaluable and can provide vital insights, but how can we efficiently make sense of it? Laxman...read more

CS Alum Shines as the Golden Bachelorette

The ABC show’s first lead highlights dating in later years.

Before she was handing out roses to 24 eligible suitors at the famous Bachelor Mansion, the dating scene for Joan Vassos (B.S. ’85, computer science) consisted of Delta Gamma formals or meetups at College Park...read more

CS Major’s Pickle Company Celebrates Founders’ Friendship

University of Maryland computer science major Eric Bennett and his friend Chris Moon initially met playing the drums in sixth-grade band class. After ten years of friendship, becoming business partners was a natural next step...read more

Student Startup Uses AI to Modernize Legacy Code

Axal joins the Mokhtarzada Hatchery incubator program to tackle legacy code hurdles with AI innovation.

12.06.2024 12:00 to 13:30

IRB-4105

Computer Science FFL

10.18.2024 11:00 to 12:00

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#s...

Sim2Real2Sim: Differentiable Physics-Based Modeling of Multisensory Objects

10.18.2024 12:00 to 13:00

ATL 2324

The State Hidden Subgroup Problem and How to Efficiently Locate Unentanglement

10.23.2024 11:00 to 12:00

4105

PairScale: Analyzing Attitude Change with Pairwise Comparisons

10.23.2024 11:00 to 12:00

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&om... Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123

Quantum complexity in many-body physics: random circuits and thermodynamics

10.24.2024 11:00 to 12:00

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99819547713?pwd=vtxWJqfcVK1iOY9bSH3GYFLWkrh7cf.1

Exponential Quantum Space Advantage for Approximating Maximum Directed Cut in the Streaming Model

10.24.2024 14:00 to 15:15

IRB 4105

Empowering Workers in the Design and Implementation of Autonomous Agents

10.25.2024 11:00 to 12:00

IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#s...

Working on Products in Big Tech

10.30.2024 11:00 to 12:00

4105

TBA

10.30.2024 11:00 to 12:00

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99921526411?pwd=cndbXdaCjBIv6k16fWPszhzoUTybaH.1 Meeting ID: 999 2152 6411 Passcode: 894844

Catalysis of quantum entanglement and entangled batteries

11.04.2024 11:00 to 12:00

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93634867147?pwd=O8tRc7a21iCGkI8mcJ8MVvVHlIjXrh.1

An automata-based approach for quantum circuit/program verification

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