Recent News & Accomplishments
2014
Dr. Jandelyn Plane, Director of the Maryland Center for Women in Computing, has been awarded the 2014 Women in Technology Social Impact IT Leadership Award. read more
Computer Science Department Assistant Professor David Van Horn’s book Realm of Racket: Learn to Program, One Game at a Time has been selected as a 2013 Notable Book in Computing as part of the ACM Computing Reviews’ Best of 2013, which consists of books and articles selected by the computing community. Realm of Racket teaches readers to program by leading them through the creation of a series of increasingly complex games. Van Horn co-authored Realm of Racket with Northeastern University Professor Matthias Felleisen, Dr. Conrad Barski, and eight undergraduate students from Northeastern... read more
Computer Science Department Professor Hanan Samet is one of three scholars recognized as 2014 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Fellows. The UCGIS Fellows Program celebrates the extraordinary record of achievements of individuals in a variety of spatial disciplines and communities of practice that use spatial information. Samet's work in "designing and using hierarchical spatial data structures for GIS, such as the quadtree and octree, have had a tremendous impact on GIScience research and software development," says the UCGIS. In addition to his data structure... read more
Computer Science Department Undergraduate Student Emily Aster Jones (B.S. ’14) and Computer Science Department Alumnus Matthew Richard McCutchen (B.S. ’11) have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Jones and McCutchen are among 2,000 students selected from over 14,000 applicants. During their time as undergraduates Jones and McCutchen conducted research with Computer Science Department faculty. Jones conducted research in computational biology with Computer Science Department Affiliate Associate Professor Sridhar Hannenhalli and McCutchen conducted research... read more
CS Ph.D. Student Vikas Shivashankar and CS Professor Dana Nau along with their co-authors Franc Ivankovic, Patrik Haslum and Sylvie Thiebaux have been awarded the 2014 Outstanding Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Their paper, “Optimal Planning with Global Numerical State Constraints”, was selected from amongst 164 submissions this year. Learn More: Read the paper, “ Optimal Planning with Global Numerical State Constraint s” Vikas Shivashankar’s Personal Website Dr. Dana Nau’s Personal Website ICAPS 2014 read more
Dr. Leah Findlater, CS Affiliate Professor, has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award (NSF CAREER Award), which will support her research activities. Dr. Findlater’s work is in the area of human-computer interaction. She specifically focuses on lowering barriers to using technology and accessing information. Learn More Dr. Leah Findlater's Website read more
Computer Science undergrad Geoffrey Ji named 2014 Goldwater Scholar. Computer Science undergrad Daniel Farias named 2014 Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention, Daniel's past research includes work with CS Assoc. Professor Neil Spring. read more
UMD CS Professor Jeff Hollingsworth was interviewed on March 6th, 2014 by the HPCwire Soundbite podcast, which regularly hosts researchers and those who impact the world of high performance computing. Hollingsworth discussed the Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates Program that he and UMD CS Professor Alan Sussman launched to attract more undergraduate students to the field of high performance computing. Because of their program, two dozen undergraduate students travel to the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis every year. “The goal of this... read more
Ph.D. alumnus Aaron Schulman was recently awarded the SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Networking and Data Communication. [An Interview with Aaron] read more
On Friday, March 8th 2014, Aaron Schulman (Ph.D. 2014) heard that he won the ACM SIGCOMM Dissertation Award. Aaron sat down with us to talk about the Award, his Post-doctoral work at Stanford and what being a graduate student in the CS Department meant (and still means) to him. Walk us through the day that you found out that your advisor nominated you for the award, and then let us know how you felt when ACM SIGCOMM let you know that you had indeed won the award. Before I started working on the dissertation, my advisor, Neil Spring, and I wondered if the community would be as intrigued by the... read more