Earlier Awards and Accomplishments
December 2008
- An ACM Team coached by Professor Amol Deshpande has been selected as one of the teams that has earned the opportunity to advance to the 2009 ACM-I CPC World Finals in Stockholm, Sweden.
November 2008
- Qiang Yang, a 1989 PhD graduate of our department, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow.
- Bonnie Dorr and her students, Matthew Stover and Nitin Madnani presented TERp (Translation Edit Rate plus), one of the top performing metrics at the NIST Metric MATR workshop.
October 2008
- Congratulations to Matt McCutchen, Mitchell Katz and Alan Jackoway for placing first in the Mid-Atlantic ACM programming contest.
- Professor Ashok Agrawala will become a Life member of the IEEE, a distinguished status reserved for those with a long association with the IEEE.
September 2008
- CBCB faculty member Mihai Pop receives funding from NIH for a new R01 basic research grant, "Assembly and analysis software for exploring the human microbiome.
- Amitabh Varshney has been elected as the Chair of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) for 2008 - 2011 term.
- Ugur Kuter, Florent Teichteil-Konigsbuch, Guillaume Infantes developed a new planning algorithm called RFF which won the Fully Observable Probabilistic track of the 2008 International Planning Competition.
- SK Gupta and Amitabh Varshney have been awarded a NSF CDI Type I award on Nano Assembly Planning.
August 2008
- Mustafa Bilgic, advisor Lise Getoor, received the best student paper award at the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD).
June 2008
- Rance Cleaveland was quoted in the Baltimore Sun on the use of static analysis methods for testing medical devices.
- Hanan Samet, Jagan Sanakaranarayanan and Houman Alborzi received the best paper award at SIGMOD 2008.
- Jeff Hollingsworth has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA).
- Dana Nau was the invited speaker at ProMAS-2008 in Portugal.
- Jonathan Katz was one of the invited lecturers at the Summer School on Rational Cryptography in Bertinoro, Italy.
May 2008
- Governor Martin O'Malley has recognized HCIL's 25th Anniversary and the Annual Symposium Days with an official proclamation.
- Professor Emeritus Jack Minker delivered the 2008 Commencement Address to the CMPS Graduates.
- Ben Shneiderman was the Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker at Stanford University May 20 through 23.
- Professor Emeritus Jack Minker was honored in a special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.
- Congrats to Dave Jacobs on a recent article in the Smithsonian magazine about his research on developing a botanical field guide that uses image processing methods.
- MAXWell Lab names as home to the first WiMAX Forum endorsed applications lab in North America
April 2008
- Derek Juba and Adam O'Donovan have received NVIDIA Fellowships for 2008-2009.
- Professors Vic Basili, David Jacobs, Atif Memon, Hanan Samet and Ben Shneiderman will be recognized at the first annual UM Scholarship and Research Celebration.
- An invention disclosure by Adam O'Donovan, Nail Gumerov and Ramani Duraiswami won the UMD 2007 invention of the year.
- Narendra Ahuja, 79 Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute, and Coordinated Science Laboratory received the Computer Science Distinguished Alumnus award for 2008.
- Information Science Finalist: Ashok Agrawala and Amitabh Varshney, both CS and UMIACS - Context Aware Distribution of Information to Improve Quality of Life.
- Kim Ozga received the CMPS Thelma M. Williams Outstanding Advisor of the Year Award for 2008.
- Professor Ben Shneiderman has been selected as the FY08 winner of the CMPS Board of Visitors Distinguished Faculty Award. The award is given annually to a tenured faculty member for outstanding accomplishments over the previous five years that have contributed significantly to raising the profile and visibility of the College.
- Ben Shneiderman will give a keynote speech at the ACM SIGMOD conference titled, "Extreme Visualization: Squeezing a Billion Records into a Million Pixels".
- The paper titled "Scalable network distance browsing in spatial databases" authored by Professor Hanan Samet, and his students Jagan Sankaranarayanan and Houman Alborzi has been chosen to receive a "best paper" award in the SIGMOD 2008 conference.
- Jessica Chang, BS '07, received an NSF Graduate Fellowship.
March 2008
- Aravind Srinivasan was an invited speaker at the Network Design Workshop of the 9th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference.
- Dianne O'Leary receives multiple honors from AWM and SIAM.
- Jonathan Katz was invited to speak at the Fifth Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC) 2008
February 2008
- HCIL's NSF-funded workshop on Children's Mobile Technologies gathered 45 people from 5 different countries to consider the future in this important research area.
- The Lab for Computational Cultural Dynamics' SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) and social network site for terrorism related analysis and prediction was featured in several major news media. STOP provides methods for reasoning about terror groups and forecasting what they might do in the future. In addition, it contains unique social networking capabilities that allow analysts to effectively cooperate in order to better understand and counteract terror groups. Articles by: Computerworld Magazine, IT week, UPI News, Network World.
- Atif Memon has been invited to give an Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) seminar on "Testing Event-Driven Systems" at the National Institute of Standards & Technology.
- Ben Bederson co-authors Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot, an investigative study into how voters respond to new equipment.
January 2008
- Dave Levin, PhD student of Bobby Bhattacharjee and Aravind Srinivasan, has been awarded a prestigious Microsoft Live Labs Fellowship.
- Louis Wasserman, a high school student of William Gasarch, has been named an Intel Science Talent Search Finalist. His research will be on display at the National Academy of Sciences March 9 & 10.
- Samir Khuller gave a Google Tech talk titled Algorithms for Data Storage and Migration.
- Adam Porter discusses his research in a guest posting on the Google Testing Blog.
- Ben Bederson discussed The Future of the Cellphone on The Conversation, a public radio program on KUOW Seattle.
- University of Maryland Software Day was held at the Riggs Alumni Center on January 18, 2008.
- The International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction in cooperation with the International Ergonomics Association, Human Interface Society has published a special issue, Reflections on Human-Computer Interaction, in honor of Ben Shneiderman's 60th Birthday. This special issue of the Journal is volume 23, #3 with an article on Ben's work and his impact on the field can be found on pages 195 through 204. Catherine Plaisant (UMD) and Chris North (VA Tech) were guest editors for this issue.
December 2007
- Jack Minker's paper, Developing a Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, was published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.
- Jonathan Katz was invited to speak at INDOCRYPT 2007 and the 11th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding.
- Katrina LaCurts and Morgan Dixon received Honorable mentions for the 2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Award from the Computing Research Association.
November 2007
- Julian Mestre's paper, "Adaptive Local Ratio", was selected Best Student Paper for SODA 2008. Julian recently received his Ph.D. in August.
October 2007
- Louis Wasserman's research project in circuit complexity theory was selected to be a Regional Finalist in the Siemens Westinghouse competition. Louis Wasserman is a high school student working with Dr. Gasarch.
- Aravind Srinivasan and his co-inventors have been awarded a U.S. patent on fault-tolerant routing of data in networks.
- Atif Memon has been invited to serve on a National Academy of Sciences Panel as an expert in the area of Computer Science and Information Technology, for the Pakistan-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperative Program, sponsored by United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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The Symposium on Software Engineering honoring Emeritus Professors Victor Basili and Marvin Zelkowitz
was held October 6, 2007 in the Computer Science Instructional Center.
Pictures: http://www.cs.umd.edu/special-events/sse-2007/
Presentations: http://webapps.cs.umd.edu/sse07/presenters.php
September 2007
- David Jacobs was selected as one of 7 winners of the Honda Initiation Grant (HIG).
- Jessica Chang, who recently finished undergraduate degree, will present her paper "Broadcast Scheduling: Algorithms and Complexity" at the ACM-SIAM SODA conference in San Francisco in January 2008.
- Yuan Yuan's work entitled "UnChannelize the Channels in WLANs" won second prize in the ACM Student Research Competition held at MobiCom 2007.
- Amitabh Varshney delivered a joint plenary keynote on "Visualization and Persuasion" at the Symposium on Volume Graphics and Symposium on Point-based Graphics Sep 2 - 4.
- Aravind Srinivasan was an invited speaker at the SAGA 2007 conference held at ETH Zurich.
- Jessica Montgomery was selected to receive the Department's Semi-Annual Staff Award for the period January through June 2007.
- Lise Getoor is giving an invited talk at the 3rd Workshop on Combining Logic and Probability at the University of Kent, Cantebury, UK.
August 2007
- Richard (Matt) McCutchen won a GOLD medal at the International Informatics Olympiad. He placed 9th overall.
- Adam Porter and Atif Memon presented their research entitled "Automated Software Quality Assurance and Model-based Test-case Generation" at the 2nd Google Test Automation Conference. Click here to see the video.
- Lise Getoor gave a keynote talk at the Fifth International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs in Florence, Italy.
July 2007
- Lise Getoor gave an invited talk at the 22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Vancouver, BC.
- Growing interest in treemap visualizations for hierarchical data (electronic product catalogs, sales analysis, manufacturing quality control, supply chain supervision, etc.) have led to a successful licensing agreement for HCIL's Treemap 4.1 program to the HiveGroup, Inc.. The license, arranged by the UM Office of Technology Commercialization, brings $108,000 over three years and ensures that treemaps will be applied to a wide variety of applications. The treemap algorithm was originally developed by Ben Shneiderman, refined in collaboration with Catherine Plaisant, and later extended in cooperation with Ben Bederson.
- HCIL's early successes with information visualization was accelerated during the summer visits of Christopher Ahlberg who worked under Ben Shneiderman's guidance during 1991 and 1993. One of the two key papers published in the 1994 ACM CHI Conference became the most widely referenced HCI paper, according to CiteSeer. Ahlberg formed Spotfire in 1996, and as CEO led it to a 200-person company, which was bought during summer 2007 by TIBCO. The HCIL-inspired Spotfire product is used by most pharmaceutical companies for drug discovery and genomic data analysis, and is increasing adopted for business intelligence analysis for oil/gas discovery, manufacturing control, marketing, supply chain management, and financial analysis. Ben Shneiderman participated in the formation of Spotfire and was on its Board of Directors 1996-2001.
- Julian Mestre has received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation.
June 2007
- 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. - 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.
- Jonathan Katz was invited to give a tutorial entitled "A Survey of Modern Cryptography" at ACM Sigmetrics 2007
- Atif Memon has been invited to give a keynote address, "Testing Event-driven software" at the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT Pakistan), to be held October 2007 in Karachi, Pakistan.
- Vic Basili and Atif Memon ranked in the "Top 50 software engineering scholars", while the Maryland Software group ranked 4th in a recent article in Communications of the ACM, which details a framework for ranking institutions and researchers based upon publications. These rankings are based on a select set of marquee journals in software engineering over the years 2000 though 2004. View the article here
May 2007
- 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.
- Dianne O'Leary was chosen as the winner of the College's annual Board of Visitor's award for 2007
April 2007
- Larry Davis gave the "State of the Department" address on April 23.
- Brandi Adams received the CMPS Thelma M. Williams Outstanding Advisor of the Year Award for 2007.
- Fawzi Emad Jr. received the CMPS Outstanding Instructor Award for 2007.
- Matthew Yew Mun Mah received the CMPS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for 2007.
- Adelaide Findlay has been selected for the 2007 Dean's Outstanding Non-Exempt Employee Award.
- Dr. Anurag Acharya who is visiting the department received the Department's Distinguished Post-doc award.
- Annie Hui has been selected to receive an Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
- Justin Domke, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Tsz-Chiu Au, Azarakhsh Malekian and Polyvios Pratikakis will receive Dean's Fellowship awards for 2007-2008
- 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).
February 2007
- Richard Matt McCutchen, a student of Samir Khuller, has been named as an Intel Science Talent Search Finalist. His project will be on display at the National Academy of Sciences March 11 and 12.
January 2007
- Atif Memon has been appointed to the Software Testing Verification and Reliability Editorial Board.
December 2006
- Samir Khuller has been named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the University of Maryland.
- Samir Khuller is an editor for the Enyclopedia of Algorithms.
- Aravind Srinivasan gave a Distinguished Invited Lecture at the Fifty-Third Midwest Theory Day held at Purdue University.
November 2006
- Jik-Soo Kim and Taiga Nakamura received awards in the ACM Student Research Competition for their posters and presentations "Employing Peer-to-Peer Services for Robust Grid Computing" and "HPCBugBase: An Experience Base for HPC Defects", respectively, at the SC06 conference.
- Jessica Chang was selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2007.
- 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.
- Jonathan Katz gave a week-long course on Zero Knowledge: Foundations and Applications in Bertinoro, Italy.
October 2006
- Dianne O'Leary was named a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM.
- Lise Getoor gave an invited talk at the Machine Learning Symposium at the New York Academy of Science.
- Jessica Chang was chosen as a Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar for 2006-07.
September 2006
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
August 2006
- V.S. Subrahmanian was a winner of a 2006 Computerworld Horizon Award for the Opinion Analysis System software developed here at Maryland in partnership with the University of Naples in Italy. Article
June 2006
- Aditya Kalyanpur, advisor Jim Hendler, was the primary author for the paper, "Repairing Unsatisfiable Concepts in OWL Ontologies" which was co-selected as best paper for the 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference.
- Chris Conroy was cited in a Wall Street Journal article on ID card security. Colleges Face Privacy Issues As ID Cards Collect More Data
- Jonathan Katz was invited to give a lecture in the "Cryptography and Security" session at the 2006 SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics.
May 2006
- Pete Stewart has been elected a Distinguished University Professor. He is the first person in our department to be awarded this honor by the campus.
- Julian Mestre was awarded a Dean's Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2006
- John Shin, a senior CS major, is the college's Outstanding
Undergraduate for 2006, and will be the student speaker at the
college's graduation ceremony.
View the transcript of Shin's Graduation Speech. - Michelle Hugue received the CMPS Outstanding Instructor Award for 2006
- Jandelyn Plane received the CMPS Thelma M. Williams Advisor of the Year Award for 2006
April 2006
- Lise Getoor and her student Indrajit Bhattacharya's paper, "A Latent Dirichlet Model for Unsupervised Entity Resolution" was selected as the best research paper for the SIAM Data Mining 2006 Conference.
- David Levin, Louis Licamele, Iulian Neamtiu, Vikas Raykar, and Octavian Udrea will receive Dean's Fellowship awards for 2006-2007
March 2006
- Bill Pugh and Jaime Spacco have won the university's Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award for their Marmoset project.
- Jack Minker is the recipient of the 2005 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award.
- Naresh Gupta (Ph.D. 1993 C.S.), a senior vice president of Adobe Systems, is the university's Distinguished International Alumnus for 2006.
- Sharma Chakravarthy (Ph.D. 1985 C.S.), a professor at U. of Texas at Arlington, is their College of Engineering's 2006 Excellence in Research awardee.
February 2006
- Ben Bederson won an IBM Faculty Award for his work on Piccolo.
- Jen Golbeck was named one of the "Top 10 People to Watch" by IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine.
- Amy Karlson was selected as a Microsoft Research Fellow.
January 2006
- Sujal Patel (B.S. 1996 C.S.), a co-founder of Isilon Systems, is the University of Maryland's Outstanding Young Alumnus for 2005.
- Vic Basili is the subject of a cover story in the Jan/Feb issue of IEEE Software.
- Amol Deshpande has received an NSF CAREER award.
December 2005
- Sergey Brin (B.S. 1993 C.S.) and Larry Page were named Man of the Year by the Financial Times.
- Amitabh Varshney delivered a keynote speech at the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 05).
- Vipin Kumar (Ph.D. 1982 C.S.) has been appointed Fellow of the ACM.
November 2005
- Bonnie Dorr has been elected Vice President of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
- 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.
- Martin Paraskevov, Mohammad Toossi, and Nikolas Coukouma won the 2005 ACM Mid-Atlantic USA Programming Contest.
October 2005
- Ashok Agrawala has been made a Fellow of the AAAS.
September 2005
- 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.
August 2005
- Lise Getoor gave an invited tutorial on "Statistical Relational Learning" jointly at the International Conference on Machine Learning and the International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming in Bonn, Germany.
July 2005
- 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.
- 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.
June 2005
- 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.
May 2005
- Rance Cleaveland, Professor of Computer Science at The State University of New York at Stony Brook, is joining as Professor of Computer Science and Executive and Scientific Director of the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering.
- Steven Salzberg, senior director of bioinformatics at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), will be the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science and will direct the university's new Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB).
- Daniel Dementhon has been selected as the next program manager for vision at NSF.
- Naresh Gupta, one of our PhD graduates, has become a senior vice president of Adobe Systems.
- Jim Hendler will be the third recipient of AAAI's Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture award. Previous winners are Ed Feigenbaum and Larry Hunter.
April 2005
- Jennifer Golbeck has been selected as a DARPA Young Investigator. She has also received the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Graduate Award.
- Lise Getoor has been selected as one of 11 finalists, nationally, for a Microsoft Faculty Fellowship.
- David Mount has received the award for the best teacher in the University of Maryland's College of Computer, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences (CMPS).
- Dianne O'Leary will receive an Honorary Doctor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo. The award ceremony will be in October 2005.
- Dana Nau will be an invited speaker at the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05) .
March 2005
- Chiu Yuen Koo, Michael Furr, Fusun Yaman, Julian Mestre, Seungjoon Lee, and Srinivasan Parthasarathy will receive Dean's Fellowship Awards.
- Satyandra Gupta, an affiliate professor in our department, will be an invited speaker at the 2005 ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) .
February 2005
- A paper by Vinay Shet, Shiv Naga Prasad, Ahmed Elgammal, Yaser Yacoob, and Larry S. Davis received an honorable mention for the best paper award at the 4th Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing.
January 2005
- Atif Memon has received an NSF CAREER award.
December 2004
- Paperlens, co-authored by Bongshin Lee, Ben Bederson, and two Microsoft researchers, tied for first place in the IEEE InfoVis 2004 contest.
- Marv Zelkowitz has received a Recognition of Service Award from ACM.
- François Guimbretière has received an NSF CAREER award.
- Jonathan Katz has received an NSF CAREER award.
November 2004
- Jim Hendler is joining the editorial board for Science. He is the only computer scientist on this board.
- Ray Miller has been designated as a Fellow by the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board, "in recognition of his outstanding professional volunteer contributions to computing sciences and accreditation".
- A paper by Tamer Nadeem and Ashok Agrawala was the runner-up for the Best Paper Award at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2004).
October 2004
- Evan Golub's paper was the first runner-up for the Best Paper Award at the 20th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, Eastern Conference.
- V.S. Subrahmanian has been made the new director of UMIACS.
- Amitabh Varshney received the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee's (VGTC)'s Technical Achievement Award "in recognition of Seminal Achievements in Scientific Visualization of Molecular Surfaces."
September 2004
- The Computer Science department at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern will award Vic Basili an Honorary PhD in Natural Sciences (dr.rer.nat h.c.). The award ceremony will be in January 2005.
August 2004
- Amol Deshpande, who will be joining our faculty this spring, co-authored the paper that received the best-paper award at VLDB 2004 (the 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases).
July 2004
- Lee Spector, a PhD graduate of our department, has been made a Fellow of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, and was one of two gold-medal winners in the GECCO-2004 Human Competitive Results contest.
May 2004
- Kavita Khurana, a Computer Science/Business undergraduate, has received a 2004 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship.
- Aravind Srinivasan and Nan Wang are two of the authors of a Nature article on disease outbreaks that has been featured in Reuters, the International Herald Tribune, MSNBC, and elsewhere.
- Dana Nau's book Automated Planning: Theory and Practice is the first comprehensive textbook on the subject.
- A paper by Arunchandar Vasan and Atif Memon received the best-paper award
at the 34th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2004). - Ashok Agrawala and his student Moustafa Youssef have received the university's Invention of the Year award.
- Subbarao Kambhampati, a PhD graduate of our department, has been made a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
- In NIST's 2004 Document Understanding Conference, computer systems built by Bonnie Dorr's team (for single-document summaries) and Dianne O'Leary's team (for multi-document summaries) each ranked number 1, scoring higher than humans in some cases.
- Bill Arbaugh was featured on CBS Evening News in connection with security issues in electronic voting machines.
- Bobby Bhattacharjee has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship.
- Pete Stewart has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, "for the development of numerical algorithms and software widely used in engineering computation."
- The OWL web ontology language, derived from the SHOE language developed by Jim Hendler and colleagues, has been endorsed by the more than 400 companies in the W3C.
- Jeff Foster and Michael Hicks have both received NSF Career awards.
- Jeff Foster and William Pugh have both received Eclipse Innovation awards from IBM.
- Vic Basili will receive an honorary degree from the University of Sannio, Benevento (BN), Italy, "for his continual, outstanding contributions to Software Engineering."
- Azriel Rosenfeld will receive an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
- In NASA's current Mars mission, the 3D visualization that they used to manage the orientation of the spacecraft was built using Ben Bederson's open-source Togl tool kit.
- Ben Shneiderman has won the IEEE Book Award for 2003 for his book, Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies.
- A paper by Jeff Carver and Vic Basili won the best-paper award at the 17th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2003).
- Work by Cornelia Fermüller and Yiannis Aloimonos has been highlighted in New Scientist and CNN, and was Yahoo New's top technology item on October 30.
- A paper by Atif Memon and his graduate students was selected as one of the outstanding papers of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.
- Mema Roussopoulos, who got her undergraduate degree from our department, has accepted a position at Harvard University, as an assistant professor of computer science on the Gordon McKay endowment.
- Ben Shneiderman's book Leonardo's Laptop was a finalist in the Independent Publishers Book Awards 2003.
- Vic Basili was a keynote speaker at the 2003 Software Management Conference.
- Adam Agnew and Adam Sulmicki (both undergraduates in our department) received the Best Student Paper award at the USENIX Freenix track.
- Dana Nau co-chaired the International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling in Trento, Italy.
- Ben Shneiderman did a keynote talk at the World-Wide Web conference in Budapest
- Sergey Brin, one of our graduates and a co-founder of Google, has received the university's Outstanding Young Alumnus award.
- Alan Harbitter, one of our graduates and a co-founder of PEC Solutions, has received the college's Distinguished Alumnus award.
- David Baggett, one of our graduates and the COO of ITA Software, has received our Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award.
- Dieter Rombach, a former postdoc here and a professor at Universität Kaiserslautern, has received our Post Doctoral Alumnus award.
- Jan Neumann, one of our PhD students, won a University Dissertation Fellowship.
- Jim Hendler has been appointed a member of the Technology Subcommittee of NASA's Earth Science and Applications Advisory Committee.
- Aravind Srinivasan was an invited speaker at the Workshop on Network Management and Design.
- Vic Basili is the winner of the IEEE Computer Society's 2003 Harlan D. Mills Award.
- Ray Miller is the winner of the 2002 ACM Distinguished Service Award.
- Vic Basili was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on COTS-based Systems
- A paper by S. Khuller, Y. Kim and Y-C. Wan won the PODS 2003 Best Newcomer Paper Award.
- Ben Bederson has joined Microsoft's Research University Relations Advisory Board.
- Mike Hicks's PhD dissertation, "Dynamic Software Updating," was awarded the SIGPLAN Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2002.
- A paper by Henrique Andrade and others received the Best Student Paper award at the SC2002 conference.
- A paper by Vic Basili and others received the Best Paper Award at the 2002 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering.
- James Hendler was awarded the Exceptional Civilian Service Medal, the Air Force's highest honorary award for civilians.
- A paper by T.-C. Au, H. Muñoz-Avila, and D. Nau received the award for the best research paper at the 2002 European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning.
- A paper by Dianne O'Leary and others received the award for the best-paper award at the 2002 Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction.
