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| 5.4.2008 | TSSA Board Elected
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| 4.18.2008 | Undergraduate Research Forum
Gilbert Bernstein awarded Pervasive Software Award for Excellence in Mathematics Mark Reitblatt awarded Valero Energy Corporation Award for Excellence in Computer Sciences and Engineering Yonatan Bisk awarded Intel Foundation Award for Excellence in Computer Sciences Research Michael Romer awarded the Hewlett-Packard Award for Excellence in Computer Science |
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| 4.16.2008 | Student Professor Pizza Night | ||||||||
| 3.24.2008 | Turing Student Association Bowling night | ||||||||
| 2.5.2008 | Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi awarded Texas Exes Teaching Award | ||||||||
| 2.4.20078 | Dr. E. Allen Emerson wins Turing Award | ||||||||
| 11.3.2007 | UT teams place in ACM contest
UT teams placed 2nd, 3rd, and 4th at ACM Programming contest. |
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| 6.17.2007 | Grauman named Howes Scholar
Professor Kristen Grauman was one of two scientists named as 2007 Frederick A. Howes Scholars in Computational Science by the Department of Energy. |
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| 5.19.2007 | Two Turing Scholars named Dean's Honored Graduates
Turing Scholars Hai-Son Le and Ehren Kret, and UTCS senior Eamon White were named Dean's Honored Graduates, the College of Natural Science's highest award for graduating students. Less than 1% of the College's approximately 2000 graduates were so honored. |
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| 5.4.2007 | Undergrads win Innovation Competition
Turing Scholars Tarun Nimmagadda and Mickey Ristroph were members of a five-member team of UT undergraduates who have won the 2007 Social Innovation Competition, sponsored by the RGK Foundation. Competing against teams from across Texas, the team won a prize of $50,000 to start their own company based on their entry: "AccessAbility", which provides detailed pedestrian-scale maps for improved wheelchair accessibility. |
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| 4.30.2007 | TRIPS Processor Unveiled
The research team led by Professors Doug Burger, Steve Keckler, and Kathryn McKinley unveiled their radically new TRIPS microprocessor. Click here for more details. | ||||||||
| 4.26.2007 | Faculty Dodgeball Three-Peat!
The UTCS faculty team consisting of Professors Doug Burger, Warren Hunt, Adam Klivans, Calvin Lin, Bill Mark, and Roger Priebe defeated a strong Turing Scholars team 11 games to 3 despite the early loss of Bill Mark to a broken finger, who unwisely attempted to catch a vicious ball thrown by Kevin Gladstone. | ||||||||
| 2.14.2007 | Klivans and Witchel receive NSF
CAREER Awards
Professors Adam Klivans and Emmett Witchel have received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for young faculty. Click here for more details. | ||||||||
| 2.9.2007 | Lam and Moore elected to NAE
Professors Simon Lam and J Moore have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineers. Lam was elected "For contributions to computer network protocols and network security services," and Moore was elected "For contributions to automated reasoning about computing systems." Click here for more details. | ||||||||
| 2.7.2007 | Turing Scholars trounce Dean's Scholars
A team of Turing Scholars decisively defeated a team of Dean's Scholars in Broomball, 1-0. | ||||||||
| 2.7.2007 | Roesner paper accepted to ISCA
Junior Franzi Roesner is one of two student co-authors on a paper that has been accepted to the Int'l Symposium on Computer Architecture, the premiere computer architecture conference. Her co-authors are graduate student Simha Sethumadhavan, Dr. Joel Emer, and Professors Doug Burger and Steve Keckler. Their paper is titled, "Late-Binding: Enabling Unordered Load-Store Queues". | ||||||||
| 9.21.2006 | Ballard, Grauman, and Pingali join
faculty
The department welcomes two senior faculty, Dana Ballard and Keshav Pingali, and one Assistant Professor, Kristen Grauman. Ballard's research focuses on computational theories of the brain, with an emphasis on human vision; Pingali conducts research in languages and compilers; iand Grauman studies computer vision. More details can be found here | ||||||||
| 11.30.2006 | Hai-Son Le honored by CRA
Senior Hai-Son Le selected for an Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award. Hai-Son is currently working on his honors thesis with Professor Vijaya Ramachandran. | ||||||||
| 11.29.2006 | Five elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Neil Gandhi, Ehren Kret, Hai-Son Le, David Major, and Laura Massey were among 7 UTCS students elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Hai-Son Le selected for an Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award. | ||||||||
| 8.28.2006 |
Zack Mahdavi mentioned in Science
Zack Mahdavi's undergraduate research contributes to the study of how cells in mamalian embryos communicate. In addition to Zack's mention in the prestigious Science journal, his work is described in more detail on a UT web site. | ||||||||
| 8.1.2006 |
Stone wins Computers and Thought Award
Professor Peter Stone has won the 2007 Computers and Thought Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the area of artificial intelligence. | ||||||||
| 6.22.2006 |
Burger wins Wilkes Award
Professor Doug Burger has won the prestigious Maurice Wilkes Award, given annually by the ACM to an outstanding computer scientist whose career began less than 20 years ago. Burger was cited for his pioneering work on the TRIPS processor, which is co-led by Professor Steve Keckler. | ||||||||
| 5.20.2006 | Wang addresses commencement audience Senior Shan Wang was honored as the College of Natural Science's sole student commencement speaker, as chosen by a special faculty committee. Shan will continue her studies in the fall at Stanford's PhD program in Computer Science. |
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| 5.20.2006 | Three students named Dean's Honored Graduates
Mark Gebhart, Kevin Resnick, and Shan Wang were named Dean's Honored Graduates, the College of Natural Science's highest award for graduating students. Only 18 of the College's approximately 2000 graduates were so honored. |
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| 3.22.2006 |
Boyer, Kauffman, and Moore win System Software
Award
Professors Bob Boyer and J Moore and senior research scientist Matt Kauffman have been awarded ACM's System Software Award-- given to an institution or individuals for developing software systems that have had a lasting influence-- for their work on the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover. |
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| 3.15.2006 | UT Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg speaks | ||||||||
| 3.3.2006 | Faculty defeats Turing Scholars in dodgeball (again)
In the second annual faculty-student dodgeball game, the faculty demonstrated that age and experience can trump youth and vigor, winning 8 games to 3. The faculty were represented by Doug Burger, Inderjit Dhillon, Steve Keckler, Calvin Lin, and Mike Scott, while the students were represented by a cast of thousands. The faculty are happy to report no serious injuries. |
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| 1.19.2006 |
CS graduates in high demand
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 1 million new IT jobs in the next 10 years |
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| 9.09.2005 | The Fall 2005 Turing Scholars
Newsletter
Take a look at what our students are up to! |
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| 5.14.2005 | Program graduates first student
Ryan Holliday graduated in three years to become the department's first student to graduate with the Turing Scholars Honors designation. Ryan is now a software engineer at Microsoft in Redmond, WA. |
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| 4.25.2005 | Cline named to Academy of
Distinguished Teachers
Professor Alan Cline has been the first CS professor inducted into UT-Austin's Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Each year, only 5 to 10 faculty are so honored. |
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| Aug 28 | Turing Scholars Orientation | |
| Aug 28 | Gone To Texas | |
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