Recent News & Accomplishments
2013
Graduate student Udayan Khurana received the Best Poster Runner-up Award at the 29th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), held in Brisbane, Australia in April 2013. The poster was for the research paper "Efficient Snapshot Retrieval over Historical Graph Data"(co-authored with Assoc. Prof. Amol Deshpande) and can be seen outside AVW 3220. read more
Prof. Emeritus Vic Basili, an Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, gave two talks and two workshops this week at the University on the GQM+Strategies Approach and the Process Risk Indicator Methodology. These workshops dealt with the alignment and measurement of business goals and strategies and the early identification of the risk of not achieving emergent software properties such as safety and reliability, respectively. read more
Associate Professor Atif Memon is giving an invited talk at Apple Headquarters in Palo Alto, CA on May 21, 2013. His audience includes teams that write test automation tools for iOS and execute 10 million tests a month on 600 devices. read more
A group of researchers at the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering has received a NASA Group Achievement Award for their work on software assurance and technology transfer. This is part of NASA's Software Assurance Research Program (SARP). Members who shared in this award are Profs. Emeritus Victor R. Basili and Marvin Zelkowitz, and adjunct faculty members Mikael Lindvall and Forrest Shull. More information can be found at http://www.fc-md.umd.edu/News/04-19-2013.aspx . read more
One of Dr. Michelle Hugue's students (rising senior Graham Welch) and one of Mr. Fawzi Emad's students (rising senior Luke Valenta) have been chosen as 2013-2014 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars. Lecturers Hugue and Emad have been named by Welch and Valenta as the faculty mentors who have had the most impact on their academic achievements. This highly selective program recognizes academic excellence in UMD students and the important role that faculty members have as teachers and mentors. Mentors and scholars will be honored at a celebration luncheon on Nov. 5, 2013. read more
Angjoo Kim has been awarded the UMD Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship for summer 2013. read more
On April 23, the achievements of CS faculty, staff and students were recognized at the Department's annual awards ceremony. A PDF of the program listing those honored is available here . read more
Prof. Ben Shneiderman has been awarded the Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award. He will be recognized at the Annual Fellowship and Award Celebration on May 7th. read more
The University of Maryland (UMD) today announced Carr Astronautics as its newest member of the Corporate Partners in Computing (CPIC) program. The program provides companies with unique benefits for collaboration with UMD, including several opportunities for student engagement as well as the possibility to embark on mutually beneficial and collaborative research ventures with faculty. This program, in turn, enables UMD to gain insight into industry trends, learn more about what research area corporations in the computing field are pursuing, and acquire feedback from leaders in the industry on... read more
Dr. Bederson will serve from now until August 2014 as Special Advisor to the Provost on Technology and Educational Transformation. In coordination with the Vice President for Information Technology, he will lead efforts during the next year to determine UMD's path forward for the broad set of activities that fall under "online and blended learning." Dr. Bederson will be working with faculty and staff in academic units across campus to create a blueprint for UMD, based on recommendations that will emerge from the BOE commission. This blueprint will include not only where the University should... read more