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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
The five-year project will develop new telemetry methods to help operators monitor large-scale AI and cloud systems more efficiently.
Alan Liu , an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award to advance research on telemetry and observability...read more
Agrawala’s career spans the department’s early years, decades of work in systems, networking and mobile computing, and the program’s growth into a top-ranked computer science program.
When Ashok Agrawala arrived at the University of Maryland in 1971, computer science at the university was still taking institutional shape. The Department of Computer Science had not yet been formally established, the personal computer...read more
He discusses his path into computing, his work in computational genomics and advice for students interested in computational biology.
University of Maryland Associate Professor of Computer Science Rob Patro works in computational genomics, where his research addresses the growing need to process and interpret large amounts of biological sequencing data. He leads the COMBINE...read more
CS students who graduated with bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in August 2025, December 2025 and May 2026 were honored at last month’s commencement ceremonies.
For many students, commencement is measured in brief moments: a name called from the stage, a handshake, a photo with family or a final walk with classmates. Behind those moments are years of coursework, research,...read more
Her research examines how irrelevant information can influence reasoning in large language models.
University of Maryland Department of Computer Science Ph.D. student Hillary Owusu received an ACM-W scholarship to attend the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , where she will present research examining irrational...read more