Recent News & Accomplishments
2014
Computer Science Department Professor V.S. Subrahmanian has co-authored "Indian Mujahideen: Computational Analysis and Public Policy". This book presents the "Policy Computation Algorithm", a collection of policy analysis methods that utilize programming techniques which can be applied to counter-terrorism problems . This algorithm can be used to to predict terror attacks, such as those committed by the Indian Mujahideen terrorists, by analyzing data from text messages and social media posts. The methods presented by V.S. in "Indian Mujahideen: Computational Analysis and Public Policy" have... read more
Kyuseok Shim received his Ph.D. from UMD in August 1993. In 2013, Dr. Shim was named an ACM Fellow for his contributions to scalable data mining and query processing research. read more
2013
The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) has awarded the Maryland Center for Women in Computing a SIGCSE Special Projects Grant for “Computer Science Connect Curriculum-In-A-Box.” SIGCSE Special Projects Grants support projects that investigate and introduce new ideas in the learning and teaching of computing. These projects provide clear benefit to the wider disciplinary community in the form of new knowledge, developing or sharing of a resource, and/or good practice in learning, teaching, or assessment. The Computer Science... read more
Jan Plane serves as panelist at the Empowering Women in IT Event hosted by Excella Consulting and Women in Technology. The panel addressed barriers facing women in technology and how the audience can help to break down those barriers. read more
The Department of Computer Science is pleased to announce three new undergraduate student scholarships: the Appian Scholarship (funded by Appian Corporation), the Booz Allen Scholarship (funded by Booz Allen Hamilton), and the Dante Scholarship for Innovation (funded by Dante Consulting) Jeremy Fallick is the inaugural winner of the Appian Scholarship for his record of academic excellence and passion for technology. Kyle Nission was awarded the Booz Allen Scholarship for his achievement in Booz Allen Hamilton's key focus areas, which include big data, cloud computing and cybersecurity. Victor... read more
The Department, UMIACS, and the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences are pleased to announce the establishment of the Maryland Center for Women in Computing. read more
Computer science senior undergraduate students Luke Valenta and Graham Welch were named 2013-2014 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars. The Merrill Presidential Scholars Program honors Maryland’s most successful seniors and their University faculty mentors. As a Merrill Presidential Scholar, Luke selected Computer Science department faculty member Fawzi Emad as his university mentor and Graham selected Computer Science department faculty member Dr. Michelle Hugue. We interviewed Luke and Graham to find out more about their interest in computer science and future plans. Why did you... read more
Result published in the Royal Society's flagship international biological research journal.
Professor Dr. Dana Nau, two of Dr. Nau's former Ph.D. students: Ryan Carr and Postdoctoral Researcher Patrick Roos, and Psychology Professor Dr. Michele Gelfand study the evolution of 'Third Party Punishment'. Their paper describing the results of this study, "High strength-of-ties and low mobility enable the evolution of third-party punishment" has been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. According to Dr. Nau, "This interdisciplinary research is the first time that cross-cultural psychologists and computational game theorists have collaborated to examine the evolution of... read more
Professor Dana Nau has been named a 2014 ACM fellow for his contributions to automated search and planning. ACM recognizes fellows for their significant contributions to computing. Dr. Nau's research is in artificial intelligence, with a focus on automated planning and game theory. Learn More: Dana Nau's Website: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/ Press Release: http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2013/fellows-2013 read more
Computer Science senior undergraduate student Vicky Lai is a Finalist in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards for 2014. The CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards recognize undergraduate students who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. The January 2014 issue of Computing Research News will include an article on the award and an announcement of the awards will be posted on CRA's website ( www.cra.org ) later this week. Learn More: http://cra.org/awards/undergrad/ read more