UTCS News

2012

A tree of life grows in Texas

April 9, 2012

Tandy Warnow is working with postdoctoral fellow Kevin Liu of Rice University and Siavash Mirarab, a Ph.D. student in computer science at The University of Texas at Austin, to create smarter, faster and more accurate algorithms to apply to some of the biggest data sets ever created. ...

Tags: big data, evolution, evolutionary biology, Faculty, morphology, phylogenetics, ranger supercomputer, Research, species, Tandy Warnow, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Tree of Life

2012 College Excellence Award Winners

April 5, 2012

Assistant Professor Mike Walfish and Software Engineer Toren Smith have both been awarded 2012 College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Excellence Awards. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, College of Natural Sciences, Faculty, Michael Walfish, staff, Staff Excellence Award, Teaching Excellence Award, Toren Smith

UTCS Alum Awarded NSF EAPSI Fellowship

March 31, 2012

UTCS alum Paul Taele has been awarded an NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) fellowship for 2012. Paul will carry out research in beyond-surface sketch recognition and interaction techniques in Taipei, Taiwan, with Dr. Mike Chen in the Mobile, Social & HCI Research Lab at National Taiwan University. ...

Tags: Alumni, Awards & Honors, NSF

Grauman Wins Young Investigator Research Award

March 28, 2012

Associate Professor Kristen Grauman is one of 26 winners selected by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) as a 2012 Young Investigator (YIP) Award recipient. From a diverse pool of more than 350 candidates of university and college faculty who have attained tenure-track positioning the past five years, 26 winners were selected. ONR YIP awardees are selected based upon the merit of their research and potential contributions for game-changing advances for the Navy and Marine Corps. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Kristen Grauman, Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Award

Hack U: Yahoo's 24-hour Programming Contest

March 24, 2012

Yahoo! Hack U is two days of learning, hacking and fun. Yahoo! Hack U came to UTCS March 22 & 23rd. Attendees at this year's hack heard interesting tech talks, received hacking tips and lessons, and took part in hands-on coding workshops where they worked with cutting-edge technology. ...

Tags: Events, FoCS, Industry Relations, Yahoo!

No lights, no signs, no accidents - future intersections for driverless cars

March 23, 2012

Computer scientists at the University of Texas in Austin are developing intersections of the future, designed to accommodate the driverless vehicles they believe will soon take over our roads. The intersection will have no traffic lights and no stop signs, just computer programs that will talk directly to each car on the road. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Peter Stone, Research

In a World of Driverless Cars

March 16, 2012

The Cities page on Atlantic.com takes a look at research on the intersections of the future done by computer scientist Peter Stone. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, In the News, Research

Michael Dahlin's Paper is Among the Best in History of HPDC Conference

March 12, 2012

"WebOS: Operating System Services for Wide Area Applications," a paper co-authored by Michael Dahlin has been selected as one of the top 20 papers in 20 years of publications from the HPDC, the International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing. Co-authors of the paper, are Amin Vahdat, Tom Anderson, Eshwar Belani, David Culler, Paul Eastham, and Chad Yoshikawa. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Michael Dahlin, Research

Explore UT 2012

March 5, 2012

Explore UT, a campus community engagement event held each March, invites the public to experience UT. Thousands of people explored the UTCS program, discovering the fun of computer science, engaging in artificial intelligence, software programming, gaming, graphics and visualization, and chatting with academic advisers. ...

Tags: Events, Explore UT, Explore UTCS, Outreach

UT professor leads research into autonomous intersection technology

March 4, 2012

Having already designed an SUV that drives itself, a project group at the University of Texas is now working on the technological next step: an autonomous intersection that lets driverless vehicles navigate without stoplights or stop signs. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research

Longhorn Startup Camp Showcases 27 New Companies During Startup Crawl March 8

March 1, 2012

The University of Texas at Austin's newest space for startups — Longhorn Startup Camp — will be a stop on the SXSW Startup Crawl, which takes place Thursday, March 8, from 4 to 10 p.m. as part of UT Entrepreneurship Week. As a stop on the crawl, Longhorn Startup Camp will showcase its residents – 27 new startups, all originated at the university. ...

Tags: 1 Semester Startup, Austin Technology Incubator, Dell Social Innovation Challenge, entrepreneurship, Events, IC2 Institute, Industry Relations, Longhorn Startup Camp, startups, SXSW Startup Crawl, Technology Entrepreneurship Society, Texas Venture Labs, UT Entrepreneurship Week

Researchers Can Build on Public Support for Science

March 1, 2012

As the United States prepares for a year of election-driven partisanship, William Press points to something that many Americans share: a commitment to science. ...

Tags: Faculty, Research, William Press

Pradeep Ravikumar Selected for NSF CAREER Award

February 28, 2012

Pradeep Ravikumar has been selected for an NSF CAREER Award for his project entitled "CAREER: A New Neat Framework for Statistical Machine Learning." ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, CAREER Award, Faculty, NSF, Pradeep Ravikumar, Research

Driving on Autopilot

February 28, 2012

Imagine driving down a street at rush hour. It’s a typical commute, but this time, you’re reading a newspaper in the backseat. The driver’s seat is empty—your car is driving itself. Sounds like a fantasy, right? ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Research

GradFest Open House 2012

February 27, 2012

The department hosted prospective Ph.D. students at GradFest 2012, a two-day exploration of UTCS research, resources, and community. Over 30 admitted students attended panel discussions, toured labs, and met with faculty one-on-one. Current graduate students hosted the out-of-towners in their own homes for a real look at life as a UTCS grad student. ...

Tags: Events, GradFest, Graduate Program, Graduate Students

Five Natural Sciences Faculty Receive Sloan Fellowships

February 22, 2012

Five faculty in the College of Natural Sciences have recently been awarded 2012 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships are given to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders. The recipients are: ...

Tags: Chemistry & Biochemistry, College & Campus, Computer Science, Honors & Awards, Main Page, Mathematics, Neuroscience, News Releases