Recent News & Accomplishments

 2005

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

Vipin Kumar, a 1982 Ph.D. graduate of our department, has been appointed William Norris Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota.

Vipin Kumar , a 1982 Ph.D. graduate of our department, has been appointed William Norris Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota.  read more

FindBugs, a software defect detection tool, has been downloaded more than 100,000 times, with more than 10,000 downloads in each of the past three months.

FindBugs , a software defect detection tool, has been downloaded more than 100,000 times, with more than 10,000 downloads in each of the past three months.  read more