Department Highlights
A Place Where Innovation Thrives
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Immersive Media Design at the University of Maryland is a four-year, cross-disciplinary undergraduate program that prepares students to excel in digital creativity and innovation using the latest immersive media tools and technologies.
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A Hub for Technology, Collaboration, and Discovery
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UMD's Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering to Transform Region’s Tech Corridor
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Turning Ideas into Reality
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Recent News
What can bees teach us about artificial intelligence? Quite a bit, according to University of Maryland researchers developing the next generation of autonomous robots. Yiannis Aloimonos , a professor of computer science with an appointment...read more
Alan Zaoxing Liu, Christopher Kauffman, Mario Alvarenga, Segev Elisha-Cliff Elazar Mittelman and Amrit Magesh were recognized for teaching and instructional support during the 2025–26 academic year.
The University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science announced its 2025–26 teaching award recipients, recognizing faculty members, teaching assistants and a student-led course facilitator for their work in undergraduate education. This year’s awardees are Assistant...read more
Computer Science Professor David Jacobs was named director of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), effective September 6, 2026. Jacobs, who has been a faculty member at UMD since 2002, will...read more
The 2026 promotions recognize faculty members whose work spans artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, computational biology and other areas of computing.
The University of Maryland Department of Computer Science announced 11 faculty promotions, recognizing faculty members whose work spans artificial intelligence, systems, computational biology, human-computer interaction, security, programming languages, computer vision and computer science education. The...read more
New majors aim to ethically advance AI tech, prepare students to address Its societal impact.
The University of Maryland will launch two new undergraduate degrees in artificial intelligence (AI), including one of the nation’s first interdisciplinary majors focused on the impact of AI on humans, with courses spanning philosophy, ethics,...read more