Recent News & Accomplishments

 2007

Ben Bederson discussed The Future of the Cellphone on The Conversation

Ben Bederson discussed The Future of the Cellphone on The Conversation, a public radio program on KUOW Seattle.  read more

Adam Porter discusses his research in a guest posting on the Google Testing Blog

Adam Porter discusses his research in a guest posting on the Google Testing Blog .  read more

Samir Khuller gave a Google Tech talk

Samir Khuller gave a Google Tech talk titled Algorithms for Data Storage and Migration .  read more

Jonathan Katz was invited to speak at INDOCRYPT 2007 and the 11th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding.

Jonathan Katz was invited to speak at INDOCRYPT 2007 and the 11th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding .  read more

Undergrads receive Honorable mentions for the 2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Award from the Computing Research Association

Katrina LaCurts and Morgan Dixon received Honorable mentions for the 2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Award from the Computing Research Association.  read more

Jack Minker's paper published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Jack Minker's paper, Developing a Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland , was published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.  read more

Best Student Paper - SODA 2008

Julian Mestre's paper, "Adaptive Local Ratio", was selected Best Student Paper for SODA 2008. Julian recently received his Ph.D. in August.  read more

Atif Memon has been invited to serve on a National Academy of Sciences Panel as an expert in the area of Computer Science and Information Technology, for the Pakistan-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperative Program.

Atif Memon has been invited to serve on a National Academy of Sciences Panel as an expert in the area of Computer Science and Information Technology, for the Pakistan-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperative Program , sponsored by United States Agency for International Development (USAID).  read more

Symposium on Software Engineering

The Symposium on Software Engineering honoring Emeritus Professors Victor Basili and Marvin Zelkowitz was held October 6, 2007 in the Computer Science Instructional Center. Pictures: http://www.cs.umd.edu/special-events/sse-2007/ Presentations: http://webapps.cs.umd.edu/sse07/presenters.php  read more

Aravind Srinivasan and his co-inventors have been awarded a U.S. patent on fault-tolerant routing of data in networks.

Aravind Srinivasan and his co-inventors have been awarded a U.S. patent on fault-tolerant routing of data in networks.  read more