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 2007

Mihai Pop has been invited to give a keynote address at the "Finishing in the Future" conference held in Santa Fe, NM, in June 2007.The conference is co-organized by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Joint Genome Institute of the US Department of Energy.  read more
Press release: ECE Professor Introduces New "Desktop Supercomputing" Uzi Vishkin and his research team have developed a prototype model for personal supercomputing based on single chip parallel processing.  read more
Jonathan Katz was invited to give a tutorial entitled "A Survey of Modern Cryptography" at ACM Sigmetrics 2007  read more
Professor Emeritus Jack Minker gave an invited keynote address, "Reflections on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning," at the International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning held in Tempe, Arizona, May 14 - May 17, 2007.  read more
Dianne O'Leary was chosen as the winner of the College's annual Board of Visitor's award for 2007  read more
John Dobrosielki, Tiffany Gray, Anna Nhan (CS Seniors) and Martin Stolen (Aerospace Engineering graduate student) will present Carpool.UMD at the Computer-Human Interaction conference in San Jose, CA from April 28 to May 3.Carpool.UMD was awarded a place in the semifinals for the Student Design Competition with 12 other teams selected out of 54 teams from across the world (19 different schools in 11 countries).  read more
Justin Domke , Jagan Sankaranarayanan , Tsz-Chiu Au , Azarakhsh Malekian and Polyvios Pratikakis will receive Dean's Fellowship awards for 2007-2008  read more
Annie Hui has been selected to receive an Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship  read more
Dr. Anurag Acharya who is visiting the department received the Department's Distinguished Post-doc award.  read more
Adelaide Findlay has been selected for the 2007 Dean's Outstanding Non-Exempt Employee Award.  read more

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