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UMIACS research scientist Ugur Kuter, former UMIACS postdoc Guillaume Infantes, and ISR postdoc Florent Teichteil-Königsbuch's program RFF has won the Fully Observable Probabilistic track of the 2008 International Planning Competition. (Sept 16)
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Steven Salzberg was quoted in a recent article in Science Magazine about the FBI investigation of the anthrax attacks on the US Capitol. (Aug 20)
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Congrats to Lise Getoor and her student, Mustafa Bilgic, on their receiving the best student paper award at the at the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference
on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD) for the paper Effective Label Acquisi
tion for Collective Classification. (Aug 7)
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apitol. (Aug 7)
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Rance Cleaveland who was quoted in today's Baltimore Sun on the use of static analysis methods for testing medical devices. Link. (Jun 30)
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Hanan Samet, Jagan Sanakaranarayanan and Houman Alborzi on winning the best paper award at SIGMOD 2008 for their paper entitled "Scalable Network Distance Browsing in Spatial Databases".(Jun 25)
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Congrats to Amitabh Varshney. He is quoted in articles related to NVIDIA's release of their new TESLA HPC processors and their relevance to gaming and graphics programming. Articles: eweek, crn (Jun 17)
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UM (geography, Behavioral & Social Sciences; Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Computer, Mathematical & Physical Sciences) partners with 13 other institutions and organizations in producing a new Atlas of Africa, using UM's library of NASA satellite images. "Taking advantage of the latest space technology and Earth observation science, including the 36 year legacy of the U.S. Landsat satellite program, the atlas serves to demonstrate the potential of satellite imagery data in monitoring ecosystems and natural resources dynamics. This can provide the kind of hard, evidence-based data to support political decisions aimed at improving management of Africa's natural resources." Link. (Jun 10)
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Julie Segre is touring the microbial landscape of our body's biggest organ, the skin. In anticipation of a $115 million, 5-year effort by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), she's traveling from head to toe, conducting a census of some of the trillions of bacteria that live within and upon human skin. Although their project is just getting off the ground, Segre, a geneticist at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Bethesda, Maryland, and her colleagues have already uncovered a surprising diversity and distribution among skin bacteria. And a few oddities have emerged, too: Microbes known mostly from soils like healthy human skin, living in harmony with us; and the space between our toes is a bacterial desert compared to the nose and belly button. Segre's work on where bacteria live 'is cool stuff,' says Steven Salzberg, a bio-informaticist at the University of Maryland (director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Chemical & Life Sciences; Computer, Mathematical & Physical Sciences) and the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science). 'We need to increase our own and the public's awareness of the diversity and quantity of bacterial species on our own skin. The more people are aware, the more we can do to control infection.' Link. (Jun 10)
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Umiacs Participating in Cloud Computing Initiative: "We're aiming to train tomorrow's programmers to write software that can support a tidal wave of global Web growth and trillions of secure transactions every day." The initiative will involve Carnegie Mellon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Maryland and the University of Washington. Link (Jun 5)
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