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2012

2012 UTCS Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony

May 21, 2012

UTCS honored new Ph.D. graduates at its annual hooding ceremony. Each new graduate received a short testimonial from his or her graduate research advisor. The new doctors were then hooded by UTCS Professor Peter Stone. Afterwards, a reception was held for graduates, faculty, friends and family. ...

5 Ways Self-Driving Cars Will Make You Love Commuting

May 17, 2012

Ordinary Americans can't buy intelligent, self-driving cars just yet, but the technology could someday revolutionize one of the nation's most common road rituals—the morning and evening commutes that bookend the workday for millions of people. ...

Most wanted: Students with technical degrees

May 16, 2012

This year’s graduates in computer science, engineering and accounting are in high demand in the strongest job market for graduates since 2008, says the National Association of Colleges and Employers. NACE shows a 10.2 percent increase in hiring over 2011. - Michael Okoniewsk/Bloomberg News ...

Alumni in the News: Daniel Morris Speaking at Cloud Expo New York

May 16, 2012

UTCS Alum Daniel Morris is scheduled to speak at the Cloud Expo New York about "High Performance Database Hosting in the Cloud." He will explain why databases in the cloud are a reality and how attendees can benefit by implementing them. ...

Molecular Matchmaking for Drug Discovery

May 16, 2012

From image processing, to 3D modeling, to search algorithms, computer and computational science help improve the drug discovery pipeline ...

Alumni in the News: Robert Felps Named Clearview's Vice President and General Manager for Central Texas

May 15, 2012

UTCS alum Robert Felps has been appointed as the corporate vice president responsible for Clearview International LLC’s Central Texas sales and operations. ...

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Alumni in the News: Eileen Boerger Named to the Software & Information Industry Association Software Division Board of Directors

May 9, 2012

UTCS alum Eileen Boerger has been elected to the Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) Software Division Board of Directors to serve a two-year term. SIIA is the principal trade association and a leading voice for the software, digital content, ed-tech and financial information industries. ...

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Good Bytes and Good Luck!

May 7, 2012

Good Bytes and Good Luck! The Department of Computer Science congratulates its graduating students of 2012. We wished them “Good Bytes and Good Luck” with a graduation celebration catered by Austin’s own Amy’s Ice Cream. ...

2012 Undergraduate Research Forum

May 4, 2012

Every spring, the College of Natural Sciences celebrates its student-scientists at the Undergraduate Research Forum, a one-day event. More than 200 students present posters describing their research. The best and most innovative posters and presentations are recognized with awards judged and sponsored by the university, faculty, alumni, and industry. ...

Alumni Reconnect: Russ Gayle (BS 2003)

April 30, 2012

Alumni Reconnect: Russ Gayle (BS 2003) One of the challenges of working as a computer scientist and engineer at Sandia National Laboratories is to not be distracted by the breadth of innovative work that goes on. In any given week, I am exposed to topics and research in network and computer security, robotics, and exascale computing, to name a few. ...

Research Corner: Computational Drug Discovery

April 30, 2012

Research Corner: Computational Drug Discovery Discoveries in bioinformatics provide new therapeutic interventions to disease by replacing expensive, time-consuming physical experiments with an automated computational search. Public databases now contain experimentally determined sequence and structural information for hundreds of thousands of proteins ...

Friends of Computer Science Partner Research

April 30, 2012

Friends of Computer Science The Friends of Computer Science (FoCS) program at UTCS is fortunate to count many companies with world-class research programs as partners. FoCS partners Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sandia National Laboratories and Yahoo! are all on the forefront of technological innovation. ...

Empowering Leadership Alliance Students Get Into Undergraduate Research

April 30, 2012

The Empowering Leadership Alliance The Empowering Leadership Alliance is a computer science student organization aimed at helping minorities gain a sense of what opportunities are available in various fields in technology. ...

From the Chair: Research

April 30, 2012

Research in computer science has shown a remarkable ability to change the world. Just consider some of the $1B industries that were spawned from basic research in computer science: Internet search, graphics and animation, relational databases, data mining, and speech recognition. ...

Capital Campaign Update: Taking Research to the Next Level

April 30, 2012

Capital Campaign Update: Taking Research to the Next Level  The Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall is under way with a projected completion date of winter 2012! The Gates Complex will be the first step in the department's plan to transform computing education and research in Texas. ...

Three UTCS Students Named 2012 Dean's Honored Graduate

April 30, 2012

UTCS is proud to announce that three of our students have been named Dean's Honored Graduate, an honor that is being given to only 20 of CNS's graduating students this year. ...

1 Semester Startup Class to Host “Demo Day” with Special Guest James Truchard, President and CEO of National Instruments

April 23, 2012

UT NewsEvent: 1 Semester Startup's "Demo Day" featuring James Truchard, president and CEO of National InstrumentsWhen: Thursday, April 26, 5-9 p.m., open to the publicWhere: LBJ Auditorium at the LBJ Museum and Library, 2313 Red River St., University of Texas at Austin ...

Ph.D. Student Suman Jana Receives Google Ph.D. Fellowship and Best Paper Award

April 14, 2012

Current UTCS Ph.D. Student Suman Jana is the recipient of a Google Ph.D. Fellowship and received the Best Paper Award at the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. ...

Alum Luay Nakhleh Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

April 12, 2012

2004 UTCS Ph.D. graduate Luay Nakhleh has been awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. ...

A Tree of Life Grows in Texas

April 11, 2012

Tandy Warnow, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Computer Science. ...

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