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Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center Moves to UM, Mtech
The legal services provider is now headquartered in the TAP Incubator.  September 1, 2009  More »

Barua wins NSF grant for new binary rewriter
The rewriter will allow any binary code to be rewritten and improved.  August 31, 2009  More »

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Receive ISR news updates via social media.  August 7, 2009  More »

Baras, Gu and Jiang Receive NASA Patent Application Award
Professor and alumni develop new method for conditional access in broadcast/multicast systems.  July 31, 2009  More »

Alumna Mounya Elhilali wins NSF CAREER award
Research will develop algorithms for challenging complex sound and speech processing problems.  July 21, 2009  More »

SCMC, SAIC release cyber security white paper
Sandor Boyson is key researcher on project appplying supply chain management to cyber security.  June 19, 2009  More »

Clark School to Offer New Graduate Certificate for Technology Entrepreneurs
Innovation is the key for technology entrepreneurs to drive economic growth by bringing their ideas to market.  June 5, 2009  More »

Eyad Abed to Join United Arab Emirates University
ISR director, ECE professor will become dean of UAEU's College of Information Technology.  May 14, 2009  More »

Enlu Zhou is a winner at Clark School Doctoral Research Award Competition
Student of Steve Marcus and Michael Fu wins third place for her research.  May 6, 2009  More »

Anna Pantelidou accepts postdoctoral position at University of Oulu, Finland
Recent ECE Ph.D. will work in the Center for Wireless Communications.  May 1, 2009  More »

Enlu Zhou To Join Faculty at Univ. of Illinois
ECE Ph.D. candidate will serve as Assistant Professor in Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering.  April 10, 2009  More »

Alumnus interview: Herbert Struemper
The 1997 ECE Ph.D. develops mechanistic disease models for drug discovery.  January 26, 2009  More »

Eyad Abed speaks at UCSD Cymer Center seminar
The ISR director's lecture covered the interplay between system modes and system states.  January 16, 2009  More »

Invisibility Cloak Research in Top 10 News Stories of 2008
Photonics Online cited Maryland researchers' research in its top 2008 news stories.  January 12, 2009  More »

S.K. Gupta’s group pioneers new development in drive mechanisms for ornithopters
Next-generation micro air vehicles feature folding-wing technology.  November 4, 2008  More »

S.K. Gupta receives NSF grant for nanoassembly research
Research will aid the development of automated real-time planning algorithms.  September 18, 2008  More »

Barg wins NSF grant for applications of coding theory to digital circuit design
Research will benefit technologies from circuits and memory chips to VLSI architectures.  September 18, 2008  More »

Live TV broadcast showcases Robotics@Maryland team
WTTG Fox 5 (Washington, D.C.) focused on the land and water robots of the ISR-affiliated group.  September 4, 2008  More »

Maryland Students Win Underwater Vehicle Contest
Clark School students part of first-place team in international contest.  August 13, 2008  More »

Robotics@Maryland team wins underwater vehicle contest
The students are advised by Nuno Martins and Dave Akin.  August 5, 2008  More »

Space Systems Lab awarded NASA contract
Contract awarded to study Lunar Surface Systems and Minimum Habitation Functions  July 30, 2008  More »

Shneiderman interviewed about evolving government web sites
ISR-affiliated faculty member tells Government Computer News potential for interactive sites is great.  July 17, 2008  More »

Alumni Introduce "Sezmi," New Broadcast TV Network
ECE alumni Pati and Wiser attract attention with creation of new network alternative to cable.  May 20, 2008  More »

New Scientist magazine explores Shneiderman's 911.gov idea
ISR researcher envisions Facebook-like sites for government emergency agencies.  May 7, 2008  More »

Nuno Martins to be guest editor for control journal
Special issue focuses on information processing and decision making in distributed control systems.  April 19, 2008  More »

Boyson co-authors chapter in World Economic Forum report
ISR faculty member offers blueprint for leveraging emerging communication.  April 18, 2008  More »

Ephremides speaks at University of Minnesota, IBM Research Center
Professor gives invited distinguished lecture on network coding.  March 14, 2008  More »

Space Systems Laboratory featured in Gazette newspaper
Dave Akin's ever-evolving Ranger robot is improving in dexterity.  January 31, 2008  More »

Ben Shneiderman on visualizing data
Government Computer News interviews the ISR-affiliated professor.  January 23, 2008  More »

Clark School Research Team Introduces World's First Invisibility Cloak
Prof. Christopher Davis, Research Scientist Igor Smolyaninov create 2-dimensional cloak.  December 18, 2007  More »

Additional $1.8M for Cancer Treatment Project
"Treatment couch" could make radiation therapy safer, more accurate.  November 1, 2007  More »

Alumnus interview: Ingar Grev
He talks with us about applying systems concepts in the business world.  October 15, 2007  More »

Barua awarded NSF grant for memory management as a run-time service
Research will develop a scratch pad memory allocation strategy implemented inside a binary rewriter.  August 21, 2007  More »

D-Dupe: A Visual Interface for Relational DeDuplication (ISR IP)
This IP is available to license.  June 22, 2007  More »

Detecting DDoS Attacks in Stub Domains (ISR IP)
This IP is available to license.  June 22, 2007  More »

Effective and Efficient Collusion-Resistant Fingerprinting for Multimedia (ISR IP)
This IP is available to license.  June 22, 2007  More »

3D Wavelet-Based Video Codec with Human Perceptual Model: A Method and Apparatus for Conditional Access in Broadcast/Multicast Systems (ISR IP)
This IP is available to license.  June 18, 2007  More »

LifeLines for Visualizing History Records (ISR IP)
This IP is available to license.  June 18, 2007  More »

WinSurfer® (ISR IP)
This IP is available to license.  June 15, 2007  More »

Herrmann tapes video for Centers for Disease Control
Segment highlights his work with mass dispensing/vaccination clinics.  June 4, 2007  More »

Akin, recent alumni win at business plan competition
Their company, Geo-Haul LLC, takes second place in 'young alumni division.'  April 30, 2007  More »

Akin, Space Systems Laboratory featured on Discovery Channel program
Lab's neutral buoyancy tank contains full-sized scale model of Hubble Space Telescope.  February 28, 2007  More »

Marcus, Fu, Chang and Hu co-author Simulation-based Algorithms for Markov Decision Processes
Book explains recent sampling and population-based numerical algorithms that overcome the difficulties of computing an optimal solution in terms of a policy and/or value function.  February 23, 2007  More »

Davis, Smolyaninov developing two-dimensional plasmon microscope
Device can image living cells; operates like a point-and-shoot camera  November 2, 2006  More »

McAvoy Team Awarded NIH Grant
Cross-UMD team seeks radiation therapy motion solution.  October 18, 2006  More »

New Honda Visiting Scientist arrives at ISR
Mr. Shigeru Narihiro will conduct control theory research with Dave Akin and Robert Sanner  June 13, 2006  More »

Gupta quoted in story on biologically inspired robots
Speaks to recent advances in micro-fabrication  June 6, 2006  More »

Twelve REU students welcomed
Summer experience gives undergrads the opportunity to work with ISR researchers  June 5, 2006  More »

Hendler part of DoD/MoD International Technology Alliance contract
ISR-affiliated professor part of team awarded contract for security, planning and decision making  May 31, 2006  More »

ISR awards honor faculty, grad student and staff member
Abshire, Parikh, Luceno receive awards  May 15, 2006  More »

Cukier study: female user names receive overwhelming amount of unwanted messages
A study by Michel Cukier reveals 25 times more threatening and/or sexually explicit private messages are received over male or ambiguous usernames.  May 9, 2006  More »

Two ISR teams awarded NSF DDDAS grants
Ball, Fu, Abed and Subrahmanian are principal investigators  March 4, 2006  More »

S. Raghavan wins INFORMS computing society prize
ISR professor and colleagues honored for work in data mining  February 18, 2006  More »

Bertsimas, Poor are ISR Distinguished Lecturers
Fall lectures to focus on robust and adaptive optimization; signal processing and wireless networks  September 11, 2005  More »

Ephremides is PI for NSF MRI grant on wireless sensor networks
Project will develop experimental prototypes of intelligent embedded systems  September 3, 2005  More »

Akin featured on All Things Considered
Researcher speaks about the future of the space shuttle  August 20, 2005  More »

NASA-Goddard to award Space Systems Lab cooperative research agreement
Dave Akin's lab called "uniquely qualified" for dexterous space robotics  July 1, 2005  More »

Akin appears on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
ISR-affiliated associate professor speaks on the future of space exploration  April 18, 2005  More »

SSL's Ranger robot featured on Discovery Channel
Program on Hubble Space Telescope highlights Dave Akin's work for NASA  April 3, 2005  More »

Ghodssi speaks at National Cancer Institute
ISR faculty member is among nationally-known nanotechnology experts speaking at symposium.  October 4, 2004  More »

W.M. Keck Foundation award establishes new nano lab
Lab funded by Los Angeles foundation will be centerpiece for combinatorial nanosynthesis and multiscale characterization.  September 15, 2004  More »

W.M. Keck Foundation gives award to M-CINSE, University of Maryland
$750,000 award will establish the Keck Laboratory for Combinatorial Nanosynthesis and Multiscale Characterization.  September 7, 2004  More »

Alum Naomi Leonard named as MacArthur Fellow
Sept 2004—Expert in underwater robotics research receives coveted, no-strings-attached "genius" grant.  September 1, 2004  More »

NASA announces Canadian robot, not Ranger, to be used to repair Hubble
August 2004—Disappointment for Ranger's developer, ISR Associate Professor Dave Akin.  August 4, 2004  More »

Akin is finalist in Hubble Space Telescope repair plan
June 2004—Ranger robot developed by ISR associate professor could be used to repair famed eye in the sky.  June 5, 2004  More »

Akin team ties for first place at NASA competition
May 2004—"MORPHLAB" to be presented at AIAA Space 2004.  May 4, 2004  More »

Undergrad Jennifer Roberts wins two prestigious awards
April 2004—Graduating senior wins both NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award and Hertz Foundation award for upcoming graduate study.  April 6, 2004  More »

Space Systems Laboratory's Ranger robot is proposed to NASA
Proposal is made to assist in upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope  March 3, 2004  More »

Akin PI for NASA ASTEP award
Program examines extreme Earth environments to enable future space missions to determine whether life exists or has existed.  January 4, 2004  More »

Akin, Principal Investigator for NASA award
NASA's $3 million ASTEP award will fund development of dexterous robot arm...  January 1, 2004  More »

Shneiderman featured on Government Computer News web site
Professor speaks about “Where IT is or isn’t heading in the new year.”  December 1, 2003  More »

Temporary Clark School clean room opens
Room meets urgent need for enhanced fabrication capabilities.  October 12, 2003  More »

Ball hosts Collaborative Decision Making project
CDM is one of the research areas of NEXTOR  October 11, 2003  More »

Leonard conducts underwater robotics research
Team launched fleets of underwater vehicles into the Pacific Ocean  September 1, 2003  More »

Adomaitis and Rubloff win NSF ITR grant
Research to develop a new paradigm for semiconductor manufacturing equipment.  August 3, 2002  More »

Herrmann, Schmidt and Sandborn awarded NSF PREMISE grant
Research will apply decision production systems to improve environmentally responsible product development  August 1, 2002  More »

HCIL researchers receive NSF grant for Children's International Digital Library
Research will develop a comprehensive library of international children's literature available across the globe.  May 1, 2002  More »

NASA AMES awards contract to NEXTOR to support air traffic management research
Funding to support collaborative decision making research  March 30, 2000  More »

DARPA awards Nau contract for AcT program
Research will develop an easy-to-use planning tool for Special Operations Forces  March 23, 2000  More »

 

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