News & Announcements

HCI's early work on smartphone technology featured on UK's channel 4

Feb 23, 2011 - The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory’s early work on touchscreens was mentioned in a U.K’s Channel 4 story about the Apple patent war with manufacturers to pro

Shneiderman received Miles Conrad Award

Feb 23, 2011 - Professor Ben Shneiderman was presented with the prestigious Miles Conrad Award on February 28, 2011 at the NFAIS 53rd Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Dr.

MonoTrans2 software developed

Feb 15, 2011 - MonoTrans2, software developed by Ben Bederson and Philip Resnik, was referenced in a recent article in

IEEE Computer's Special Issue on Technology Mediated Social Participation was Guest Edited by Ben Shneiderman.

Jan 20, 2011 - IEEE Computer's Special Issue on Technology Mediated Social Participation was Guest Edited by Ben Shneiderman.

Because of Colwell, UMD is among the top

Jan 19, 2011 - Science Watch has recognized UMD to be amongst the top two in the world (with Harvard) in cholera-related research, based on Rita Colwell's pioneering work.

Vishkin's article receives worldwide press

Jan 12, 2011 - Professor Uzi Vishkin has received worldwide press coverage following the publication of his article "Using Simple Abstraction to Reinvent Computing for Parallelism" in the

Jan 06, 2011 - Hanan Samet has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of his seminal and foundational work in spatial data structures and reasoning.