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Professor Larry Davis, also founder and professor of UMIACS, is now a Distinguished University Professor. [more]

The Department of Computer Science is pleased to announce our newest professorial faculty members: [more]

For their work entitled "Imitation Learning as Cause-Effect Reasoning," PhD students Garrett Katz and Di-Wei Huang won Best Student P...

The Spring 2016 editon of shell the department's news magazine, is now available for download. [more]

The University of Maryland and the Max Planck Society are pleased to announce the establishment of a joint doctoral research program in computer science. [more]

The Department of Computer Science is pleased to announce that Michael Antonov, Brendan Iribe, and Andrew Reisse are the newest inductees to the Alumni Hall of Fame. [more]

Our new building is designed for future-focused research and scholarship. This YouTube video shown at groundbreaking describes the revolutionary changes afoot. [more]

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Alum Sam H. (Hyuk) Noh featured in People of ACM

Professor Sam H. Noh, recently named the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), is an alumnus of the Department of Computer Science. Noh, who was a student of Professor Ashok Agrawala...

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Elizabeth Iribe Chair in Computer Science receives $1.1 million from Maryland Commerce

In September 2016, Maryland Commerce provided additional support for the Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair in computer science with $1.1million. A $1.5 million private donor match will support research...

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Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant win Test of Time Awards at IEEE VISualization Conference

Along with Distinguished University Professor Ben Shneiderman and Dr. Catherine Plaisant , members of the Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) will receive two Test of Time Awards at the IEEE...

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Atif Memon Chosen as 2016 GTAC Speaker

Professor Atif Memon has been chosen to speak at the annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC). Memon is known for having founded the Event Driven Software Lab (EDSL), where faculty and...

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Professor Amitabh Varshney named Interim Vice President for Research

From the Division of Research : The University of Maryland (UMD) has appointed Amitabh Varshney, Ph.D., Interim Vice President for Research, effective October 3, 2016. In this role, Varshney will...

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Professor V.S. Subrahmanian on PBS News Hour

Professor V.S. Subrahmanian and his research, which includes algorithmic measures of social media patterns (called STONE, for Shaping Terrorist Organization Network Efficacy) to counter terrorist...

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Mihai Pop co-organizes Dagstuhl Workshop

Professor Mihai Pop co-organized a workshop entitled "Next Generation Sequencing - Algorithms, and Software For Biomedical Applications" at the Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Zentrum fur Informatik in...

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Ahmed Elgohary wins best paper at VLDB 2016

PhD student Ahmed Elgohary is a bit of a Renaissance individual. He has worked with Professor Amol Deshpande in databases, and he is now working with Assistant Professor Marine Carpuat in machine...

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The Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation

Our new building will house nationally recognized centers of interdisciplinary research in cybersecurity, computational biology, quantum computing, data science and other fast-growing tech fields. The advances developed here will help create a virtuous cycle of innovation, establishing Maryland tech companies and adding to the state's economic development.

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