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Recent News & Accomplishments

 2006

Jonathan Katz gave a week-long course on Zero Knowledge: Foundations and Applications in Bertinoro, Italy.  read more
Maryland Software Day was held November 3 as a forum for UMD and Fraunhofer software researchers to discuss their research with interested parties from on- and off-campus.  read more
Jessica Chang was selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2007.  read more
Jessica Chang was chosen as a Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar for 2006-07.  read more
Lise Getoor gave an invited talk at the Machine Learning Symposium at the New York Academy of Science.  read more
Dianne O'Leary was named a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM.  read more
Jik-Soo Kim 's paper, " Resource Discovery Techniques in Distributed Desktop Grid Environments ", received a best paper award at the International Conference on Grid Computing in Barcelona, Spain. The paper was co-authored by Pete Keleher , Beomseok Nam , Michael Marsh , Bobby Bhattacharjee , and Alan Sussman .  read more
Adam Porter gave a lecture on his research at Google's first ever Conference on Test Automation. Click here to view the lecture, entitled " Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance " using Google Video.  read more
Justin Domke and Yiannis Aloimonos 's paper, " A probabilistic notion of camera geometry ", received a best paper prize at the 2006 Photogrammetric Computer Vision Conference in Bonn, Germany.  read more
V.S. Subrahmanian was a winner of a 2006 Computerworld Horizon Award for the Opinion Analysis System software developedhere at Maryland in partnership with the University of Naples in Italy. Article  read more

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