News & Announcements
Samet and Lin Receive Distinguished Career Awards from Washington Academy of Sciences
Aug 27, 2020 - The award is is the organization’s highest honor, acknowledging scientists and scholars who have a significant impact on their respective fields of study.
Van Horn Wins Most Influential Paper Award at ICFP 2020
Aug 26, 2020 - The paper is being recognized as having had significant influence in the field of programming languages over the past decade.
Rudinger Brings Expertise in Natural Language Understanding to CLIP Lab
Aug 17, 2020 - Her research focuses on problems in natural language understanding, including knowledge acquisition from text, commonsense inference, computationally-tractable semantic representations, and semantic parsing.
MC2 Graduate Student Daniel Votipka Receives John Karat Award
Aug 10, 2020 - The award recognizes Votipka's excellence in usable privacy and security research and his dedication to mentorship and community service.
MC2 Researchers Have 13 Papers Accepted to Upcoming Cybersecurity Events
Aug 10, 2020 - The accepted papers highlight the center’s cutting-edge research in programming languages, encrypted databases, security for lattice-based cryptosystems, and more.
Wu Receives NSF Funding to Advance Detection of COVID-19 Symptoms Remotely
Aug 07, 2020 - A University of Maryland expert in digital forensics and signal processing has received funding from the National Science Foundation to advance telehealth services by incorporating a novel video technology to virtually detect a patient’s physical symptoms.
New Faculty Member Brings Wide Range of Secure Software Development Skills to MC2
Aug 05, 2020 - Leonidas Lampropoulos's research focuses on using programming language abstractions to make it easier to write, debug, and reason about software and their specifications
Bera and Manocha Receive BBI Seed Funding
Aug 03, 2020 - They will collaborate with Jae Kun Shim, a professor of kinesiology who specializes in neuromechanics, to develop an automated, artificial intelligence-based technique for perceiving human emotions.
Vishkin Leads Steering Committee for ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architecture
Jul 24, 2020 - The annual symposium brings together experts from around the world to discuss the latest topics in parallel computing and distributed computing.
Graduating Students and Postdocs Affiliated with MC2 Accept Positions in Academia and Industry
Jul 20, 2020 - Being hired by top universities and companies is a testament to their creativity, hard work and ambition, as well as to the excellence of faculty in MC2 that provide support and mentorship.