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2009
The paper "Using Histograms to Better Answer Queries to Probabilistic Logic Programs" by Matthias Broecheler, Gerardo Simari and V.S. Subrahmanian has been named the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2009 International Conference on Logic Programming to be held in Pasadena, CA in July 2009. read more
Mike Hicks and his former student, Iulian Neamtiu, were quoted in an MIT Technology Review article on a company developing live updating for Linux. The UMD project web site detailing their research on dynamic updating was linked in the article. More information can be found at: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22674/page2/ read more
The University of Maryland will host a workshop on parallel computing systems on May 29, 2009, titled " Theory and Many-Cores (T&MC): What Does Theory Have to Say About Many-Core Computing? ." The workshop is being organized by Professor Uzi Vishkin (ECE/UMIACS). The main objective of the workshop will be to explore opportunities for theoretical computer science research and education in the emerging era of many-core computing, and develop understanding of the role that theory should play in it. Workshop website: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/tmc2009/ read more
Dave Jacobs' work on recognizing trees from iPhone pictures has been described in a CNN Science-Tech blog post. More information is available at: http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/04/future-iphone-app-may-identify-trees-from-photos/ read more
Nicholas Chen, one of Professor Francois Guimbretiere's students, received the Google Fellowship in Human-Computer Interaction Award. read more
Mark your calendars! May 28th - 29th, 2009. HCIL's 26th Annual Symposium will highlight the cutting-edge research being conducted in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland. The Symposium will take place Thursday, May 28th, followed by a day of tutorials and workshops on Friday, May 29th. Registration begins in March! 2009 HCIL Symposium read more
Steven Salzberg was interviewed on WTOP on Sunday, April 26, about the swine flu in Mexico. The interview is available on their website at http://www.wtop.com/?sid=595567&nid=92 and you should be able to download it to an MP3 file here: http://www.wtop.com/emedia/151552.mp3 read more
Amitabh Varshney gave an invited CIBM Distinguished Lecture at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on Visual Insights for Molecular Biology". read more
Steven Salzberg was quoted in Science about his research on the cow genome. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43190/description/Cattle_genome_sequenced read more
Mihai Pop was highlighted in a NSF press release on Cloud Computing and his research as part of the Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) program. http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114686&org=NSF&from=news read more
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