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The paper "Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs" by Nathaniel Ayewah, Bill Pugh, David Hovemeyer, David Morgenthaler and John Penix was selected by IEEE Software's editorial and advisory boards as one of their 25th-Anniversary Top Picks. (Dec 16)
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Larry Davis and VS were interviewed on the Kojo Nnamdi show. The topic was the future of artificial intelligence. Also available with real audio(Nov 26)
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Phil Resnilk was interviewed on Federal News Radio on November 17, discussing cloud computing and its relevance to R&D in language technology. (Nov 18)
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Rama Chellappa is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. Rama is being recognized for “pioneering and sustained contributions to image and video based pattern recognition and computer vision”. (Nov 18)
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Rita's work on using satellite based methods to map and predict global cholera outbreaks is featured by BBC News. (Nov 12)
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In October 2008, Bonnie Dorr, and her students Matthew Snover and Nitin Madnani (in collaboration with Rich Schwartz at BBN Technologies) participated in the first ever NIST Metric MATR workshop to evaluate and compare automatic machine translation evaluation metrics. Their submission, TERp (Translation Edit Rate plus), was evaluated by its ability to automatically predict the quality of a translation.
TERp was one of the top performing metrics at the workshop, and had the highest Pearson correlation coefficient, with human judgments in 9 of the 45 test conditions---more than any other metric. In addition, in 33 of the 45 test conditions, TERp was statistically indistinguishable from the top metric---again more than any other metric. Overall, TERp was consistently one of the best performing metrics in the workshop. (Nov 3)
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Xu Liu, a CS and UMIACS PhD Candidate working with Dave Doermann recently placed second in the ACM Student Research Competition associated with ASSETS2008 in Halifax. His work on a mobile currency reader for the visually impaired is being beta tested nationwide by the National Federation for the blind, and has qualified for the Grand Finals in April.(Oct 23)
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Amitabh Varshney has been elected as the Chair of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) for 2008 - 2011 term. VGTC provides technical leadership and organization for technical activities in the areas of visualization, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, and interaction. (Sep 24)
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Rita Colwell received an honorary degree from the University of Oslo. In addition, she gave an invited special lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine in London earlier this month. (Sep 17)
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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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