Recent News & Accomplishments
2010
Professor V.S. Subrahmanian will be giving a talk, "Selected Research in Probabilistic Logics". Date: April 5, 2010 Time: 4:00 pm Location: CSIC Building, Room 1115 Probabilistic logics (due originally to Boole) are used to reason about situations where dependencies between events are either non-existent or not understood. In this talk, I will describe the basic ideas underlying probabilistic logics and describe some recent results on solving the "most probable world" problem as well as results on intelligibly representing the uncertainty in answers to queries to probabilistic logic programs... read more
The College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences will hold an Open House for admitted students March 25, 2010. The faculty, students and staff of the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences are eager to answer your questions about our undergraduate programs and the many opportunities we provide. Let us welcome you and share our excitement for scientific discovery with you. Opening remarks will begin at 5:30 PM and will be followed by informal discussions with faculty and a reception. This is a parent-friendly event! Welcome Reception website read more
Hanan Samet has won the CMPS Board of Visitor Distinguished Faculty Award for 2010 which will be presented to him on April 2 when he will give a lecture to the Board on his research at their annual meeting. read more
Professor Dianne O'Leary will be giving a talk, Confidence and Misplaced Confidence in Image Reconstruction" Date: March 8, 2010 Time: 4:00 pm Location: CSIC 1115 Forming the image from a CAT scan and taking the blur out of vacation pictures are problems that are ill-posed. By definition, small changes in the data to an ill-posed problem make arbitrarily large changes in the solution. How can we hope to solve such problems using noisy data and inexact computer arithmetic? In this talk we discuss the use of side conditions and bias constraints to improve the quality of solutions. We discuss... read more
Richard Matthew McCutchen, a Junior majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics is one of the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award winners for 2010. Two additional CS students received awards, John Silberholz, who was a finalist and Allie Hoch received an honorable mention in the contest. Date: Monday, March 1, 2010 Time: 4:00 pm Location: CSIC 1115 Richard Matthew McCutchen , "Streaming algorithms for clustering of point sets". John Silberholz , "Integrating Post-Newtonian Equations on Graphics Processing Units". Allie Hoch , "Finding Meaningful Patterns in Gene Annotation Graphs... read more
Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Fellow talks about "Impact of Cloud Computing on Emerging Analytic Software Systems and Solutions". Abstract & Bio Date: February 23, 2010 Time: 4:00 pm Location: AV Williams 1146 read more
Ben Shneiderman has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for research, software development and scholarly texts concerning human-computer interaction and information visualization. UM press release read more
ACM SIGCHI identifies and honors leaders and shapers of the field of human-computer interaction with annual SIGCHI Awards. The Social Impact Award honors individuals who promote the application of human-computer interaction research for pressing social needs. This year the award was given to Ben Bederson and Allison Druin of the University of Maryland for their joint work in developing the International Children's Digital Library and their individual work in developing new methods that give children a voice in the development of new technologies, and for their work on electronic voting... read more
UMD CS undergraduate students: Alan Jackoway, Mitchell Katz, Matt McCutchen, finished 14th overall (tied with 22 other schools) and 5th among U.S. competitors in the ACM Programming Contest World Finals, held in Harbin, China. They tied with teams from several other US universities (Stanford, Cornell, CMU, MIT, and Michigan) for the best placement by a North American Team (the Stanford team was crowned the North American champions based on the time taken to solve the problems). The contest featured 103 teams chosen from over 7000 teams that participated in the regional contests worldwide... read more