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Recent News & Accomplishments

 2006

Aravind Srinivasan gave a Distinguished Invited Lecture at the Fifty-Third Midwest Theory Day held at Purdue University.  read more
Samir Khuller is an editor for the Enyclopedia of Algorithms .  read more
Samir Khuller has been named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the University of Maryland.  read more
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.  read more
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

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