Recent News & Accomplishments
2007
Lise Getoor gave a keynote talk at the Fifth International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs in Florence, Italy. read more
HCIL's early successes with information visualization was accelerated during the summer visits of Christopher Ahlberg who worked under Ben Shneiderman's guidance during 1991 and 1993.One of the two key papers published in the 1994 ACM CHI Conference became the most widely referenced HCI paper , according to CiteSeer. Ahlberg formed Spotfire in 1996, and as CEO led it to a 200-person company, which was bought during summer 2007 by TIBCO . The HCIL-inspired Spotfire product is used by most pharmaceutical companies for drug discovery and genomic data analysis, and is increasing adopted for... read more
Growing interest in treemap visualizations for hierarchical data (electronic product catalogs, sales analysis, manufacturing quality control, supply chain supervision, etc.) have led to a successful licensing agreement for HCIL's Treemap 4.1 program to the HiveGroup, Inc. . The license, arranged by the UM Office of Technology Commercialization, brings $108,000 over three years and ensures that treemaps will be applied to a wide variety of applications.The treemap algorithm was originally developed by Ben Shneiderman , refined in collaboration with Catherine Plaisant , and later extended in... read more
Lise Getoor gave an invited talk at the 22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Vancouver, BC. read more
Vic Basili and Atif Memon ranked in the "Top 50 software engineering scholars", while the Maryland Software group ranked 4th in a recent article in Communications of the ACM, which details a framework for ranking institutions and researchers based upon publications.These rankings are based on a select set of marquee journals in software engineering over the years 2000 though 2004. View the article here read more
Mihai Pop has been invited to give a keynote address at the "Finishing in the Future" conference held in Santa Fe, NM, in June 2007.The conference is co-organized by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Joint Genome Institute of the US Department of Energy. read more
Press release: ECE Professor Introduces New "Desktop Supercomputing" Uzi Vishkin and his research team have developed a prototype model for personal supercomputing based on single chip parallel processing. read more
Jonathan Katz was invited to give a tutorial entitled "A Survey of Modern Cryptography" at ACM Sigmetrics 2007 read more
Professor Emeritus Jack Minker gave an invited keynote address, "Reflections on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning," at the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning held in Tempe, Arizona, May 14 - May 17, 2007. read more