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Recent News
The University of Maryland computer science alum was recognized for research on energy-efficient sensing systems that use sound, radio and light.
University of Maryland Department of Computer Science alum Nakul Garg (Ph.D. '25, computer science) received the 2026 Association for Computing Machinery SIGMOBILE Dissertation Award for developing sensing technologies that operate within limited power, size and...read more
Computer science and mathematics can seem abstract in the classroom. But at the University of Maryland this summer, 27 undergraduates are applying those concepts to problems ranging from reconstructing evolutionary trees to probing the limits...read more
Stewart, a Department of Computer Science faculty member from 1974 to 2008, worked in numerical linear algebra and helped develop LINPACK, a software package used in scientific and engineering computation.
G.W. “Pete” Stewart, a former faculty member in the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science whose work focused on numerical linear algebra and mathematical software, passed away on June 9, 2026. Stewart joined UMD...read more
Manan Suri’s Frames2LoRA project aims to make video AI more efficient through zero-token video understanding for summarization, question answering and real-time decision-making.
As artificial intelligence systems take on larger tasks, the amount of information they process has become a practical concern. More tokens can mean higher costs for users, slower responses and greater demand for computing infrastructure,...read more
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