Recent News & Accomplishments

 2005

Sujal Patel (B.S. 1996 C.S.), a co-founder of Isilon Systems, is the University of Maryland's Outstanding Young Alumnus for 2005.

Sujal Patel (B.S. 1996 C.S.), a co-founder of Isilon Systems, is the University of Maryland's Outstanding Young Alumnus for 2005.  read more

Vipin Kumar (Ph.D. 1982 C.S.) has been appointed Fellow of the ACM.

Vipin Kumar (Ph.D. 1982 C.S.) has been appointed Fellow of the ACM.  read more

Amitabh Varshney delivered a keynote speech at the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 05).

Amitabh Varshney delivered a keynote speech at the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 05).  read more

Sergey Brin (B.S. 1993 C.S.) and Larry Page were named Man of the Year by the Financial Times.

Sergey Brin (B.S. 1993 C.S.) and Larry Page were named Man of the Year by the Financial Times .  read more

A paper by Lorin Hochstein, Jeff Carver, Forrest Shull, Sima Asgari, Victor R. Basili, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Marvin V. Zelkowitz just won the award for best paper by a student lead author at SC'05.

A paper by Lorin Hochstein , Jeff Carver, Forrest Shull , Sima Asgari , Victor R. Basili , Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth , Marvin V. Zelkowitz just won the award for best paper by a student lead author at SC'05 .  read more

Martin Paraskevov, Mohammad Toossi, and Nikolas Coukouma won the 2005 ACM Mid-Atlantic USA Programming Contest.

Martin Paraskevov, Mohammad Toossi, and Nikolas Coukouma won the 2005 ACM Mid-Atlantic USA Programming Contest .  read more

Bonnie Dorr has been elected Vice President of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Bonnie Dorr has been elected Vice President of the Association for Computational Linguistics .  read more

Ashok Agrawala has been made a Fellow of the AAAS.

Ashok Agrawala has been made a Fellow of the AAAS .  read more

V.S. Subrahmanian's IMPACT and STORY projects both received honorable mentions in Computerworld's Horizon Awards for innovative software. Of the 28 projects to receive awards, these were the only university projects.

V.S. Subrahmanian 's IMPACT and STORY projectsboth received honorable mentions in Computerworld 's Horizon Awards for innovative software.Of the 28 projects to receive awards, these were the only university projects.  read more

A paper by B. Stroe, S. Dasgupta and V.S. Subrahmanian was a finalist for the best paper award at the 2005 Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) conference.

A paper by B. Stroe, S. Dasgupta and V.S. Subrahmanian was a finalist for the best paper award at the 2005 Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) conference.  read more