News & Announcements
What Makes Urine Yellow? UMD Scientists Discover the Enzyme Responsible
Jan 03, 2024 - Their findings could be applied to future studies of gut health, including conditions like jaundice and inflammatory bowel disease.
QuICS Researchers Help Design a Prototype Quantum Computer
Dec 21, 2023 - QuICS Fellow Michael Gullans and Hartree Postdoctoral Fellow Dominik Hangleiter were part of a team that created a prototype quantum computer with a record number of qubits.
Manocha Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Dec 12, 2023 - He is an internationally recognized researcher in computer graphics, virtual reality, robotics and GPU computing.
Searching the Nighttime Sky Brings Peace of Mind and New Ideas
Dec 11, 2023 - A recent Ph.D. graduate has taken a series of stunning nighttime images as part of his journey into the world of astrophotography.
Rising Stars Workshop Engages Machine Learning Community
Dec 11, 2023 - Six emerging scholars traveled to College Park to present their research and engage with UMD’s machine learning community, with two other researchers participating via Zoom.
MIXR Partnership Seeks to Expand Its Research and Outreach Efforts
Dec 11, 2023 - The Center for Medical Innovations in Extended Reality (MIXR), a unique multi-institutional partnership that focuses on extended reality technologies for clinical procedures and medical training, is ramping up efforts to expand its research, outreach and impact.
MC2 Researchers Circumvent China’s Latest Form of Internet Censorship
Dec 08, 2023 - The team won first place in the applied research competition at the 2023 CSAW Cybersecurity Games and Conference, the most comprehensive student-run cybersecurity event in the world.
Flowers Finds Her Way Back to UMIACS
Dec 08, 2023 - Carolyn Flowers has returned to work in the unit where she began her UMD career 11 years earlier.
Samet Honored with ACM SIGSPATIAL Lifetime Impact Award
Dec 06, 2023 - The inaugural award recognizes his 40-plus years of advancing technical achievements and educational tools focused on databases, data structures and algorithms, solid modeling, computer graphics, geographic information systems, computational geometry, robotics, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia and image databases, image processing, visualization, information retrieval, natural language processing, and more.
Barg Awarded IEEE Medal for His Contributions to Quantum Error Correction
Dec 04, 2023 - He is the 2024 recipient of the Richard W. Hamming Medal, the highest IEEE-wide award for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology.