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The paper "Social Trust Based Web Service Composition", by Ugur Kuter and Jennifer Golbeck, has won the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009).(Nov 2)
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Oct. 23 episode of the popular TV Show Numb3rs (episode title "Hydra") references LCCD's work on Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents (SOMA) and used SOMA like techniques to solve a kidnapping. (Oct 26)
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Allison Druin and Ben Bederson's International Children's Digital Library was named a winner of the 2009 Digital Education aAwards which recognizes exception web sites and projects focused on K-12 and higher education. (Sept 11)
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V.S. Subrahmanian co-chairs and hosts the Third International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2009) scheduled for Sep 28-30. (Aug 18)
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Larry Davis and grad student Abhinav Gupta's work on describing video content through speech (with applications to baseball) has been featured on discovery and in IEEE Spectrum. (Jul 14)
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The HCIL Open House and Ben Bederson's work was featured in the Washington Post (Jun 1)
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The paper "Using Histograms to Better Answer Queries to Probabilistic Logic Programs" by Matthias Broecheler, Gerardo Simari and V.S. Subrahmanian has been named the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2009 International Conference on Logic Programming to be held in Pasadena, CA in July 2009. (May 27)
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Mike Hicks and his former student, Iulian Neamtiu and were quoted in an MIT Technology Review article on a company developing "live" (on-the-fly) updating for Linux. (May 20)
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Hanan Samet has been awarded the 2009 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Research Award for his research contribution to GIS and for his landmark book "Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures" (May 17).
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Dave Jacobs' work on Digital Field Guides to enable researchers to identify plants from photos of leaves has been featured in both the NY Times and CNN. (May 12)
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Min Wu was elected to serve as Vice President for Finance of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), for a three year term of 2010-2012. (May 6)
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Dave Jacobs' work on recognizing trees from iPhone pictures has been described in a CNN Science-Tech blog post. (May 6)
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