Faculty

Professor Vijaya Ramachandran Selected as Honorary Professor

February 1, 2013

Professor Vijaya Ramachandran was selected by the Executive Council of the University of Delhi as an Honorary Professor. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Honorary Professorship, Vijaya Ramachandran

GDC Sneak Peek

January 18, 2013

Just weeks away from completion, we're giving you a sneak peak at the Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall. ...

Tags: Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex, Dell Computer Science Hall, Faculty, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Research, Undergraduate Students

Calvin Lin Selected for Jean Holloway Award

January 17, 2013

Professor Calvin has been selected for this year's Jean Holloway Award. Calvin Lin was student-nominated and student-selected awarded for this recognition. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Calvin Lin, Faculty, Jean Holloway Award, Texas Exes

Capital Campaign Update: The Next Chapter

December 19, 2012

In less than a month, the fences come down and UT Computer Science will be handed the keys to its new home—The Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall. [...] philanthropy’s importance has moved well beyond large capital projects like this one; it is now central to everything we do. ...

Tags: Alumni, Faculty, Graduate Program, Industry Relations, Undergraduate Program

Lorenzo Alvisi Selected for Prestigious Humboldt Research Award

December 3, 2012

Lorenzo Alvisi has been selected for a prestigious Humboldt Research Award. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Humboldt Research Award, Lorenzo Alvisi, Research

Mike Scott Wins 2012-13 President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award

December 3, 2012

President Powers recently announced Michael Scott as a recipient of the 2012-13 President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award. This award recognizes Mike's consistent levels of excellence in teaching undergraduates. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Michael Scott, Undergraduate Program, Undergraduate Students

Microsoft's Craig Mundie Shares Insight to Packed House

November 8, 2012

On November 2, 2012 the Department of Computer Science hosted Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer. To a packed house of over 250, Mr. Mundie used the latest Microsoft products to demonstrate the exciting ways computing is extending human capabilities, and enabling us to better understand and improve our world. ...

Tags: Alumni, Craig Mundie, Events, Faculty, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Microsoft, Undergraduate Students

UTCS Faculty, Alumnus, and Colleague Win Most Influential Paper from OOPSLA

October 30, 2012

Paper from McKinley, Berger, and Zorn has lasting influence. ...

Tags: Alumni, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Kathryn McKinley

Michael Walfish Receives Early Career Faculty Honor Program Award

September 10, 2012

Assistant Professor Michael Walfish was selected as a 2012 Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program award recipient. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Industry Relations, Michael Walfish

Kristen Grauman Wins Major Teaching Award

August 21, 2012

Assistant Professor Kristen Grauman has earned a Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Kristen Grauman

Fighting Back Against Click-Spam

August 21, 2012

Remember that time, a decade or so ago, when spam was the scourge of the Internet, when the sheer volume of junk email threatened to engulf legitimate correspondence and short-circuit the promise of the digital revolution? ...

Tags: click-spam, cybersecurity, Faculty, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Microsoft, Vacha Dave, Yin Zhang

The UT^2 Game Bot Judged More Human Than Humans

August 14, 2012

The UT^2 game bot, created by Jacob Schrum, Igor Karpov, and Professor Risto Miikkulainen, won the Humanlike Bot Competition at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012). The UT^2 bot is the first winning bot in the history of the Humanlike Bot Competition to be judged as human more often than half the human players participating in the evaluation. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, game bots, Graduate Students, Humanlike Bot Competition, IEEE, Igor Karpov, Jacob Schrum, Risto Miikkulainen

Computer Science Combats Disease

July 25, 2012

By David Maly, The Daily Texan, 7/18/2012 ...

Tags: Chandrajit Bajaj, Computer Science, Faculty, Health & Medicine, Infectious Disease, Research

Robot Sport: Heavy Hitters

July 21, 2012

Sporting robots are still slow. But their inventors are making rapid strides ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Faculty, Nao, Peter Stone, Research, RoboCup

Pradeep Ravikumar Awarded MURI Grant

July 10, 2012

Assistant Professor Pradeep Ravikumar is part of a team of researchers, from the University of Texas at Austin, Boston University, and Harvard University, that have been selected as a recipient of one of 23 awards this year from the Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI). ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Pradeep Ravikumar, Research

Putting the Auto in Automobile

July 5, 2012

Peter Stone talks about autonomous vehicles and intersections with Michael Breen of American Mathematical Society on this podcast episode of Mathematical Moments. ...

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

UT robots win soccer championship in Mexico City

June 26, 2012

UT Austin Villa, a team of robots led by University of Texas computer scientists, took home two 2012 Robot Soccer World Cup division championships during the RoboCup 2012 in Mexico City this month. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Faculty, Graduate Students, In the News, Jake Menashe, Katie Genter, Nao, Peter Stone, Piyush Khandelwal, RoboCup, Sam Barrett, Todd Hester, UT Austin Villa, Yuchen He

UTCS Professors and Alum Win Best Paper Award

June 15, 2012

Don Fussell, Calvin Lin, 2010 UTCS Ph.D. graduate Paul Navratil, and Hank Childs of University of California, Davis won the Best Paper Award at the 12th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization. ...

Tags: Alumni, Awards & Honors, Calvin Lin, Donald Fussell, Faculty, Hank Childs, Paul Navratil

Alum Arvind Narayanan to be Princeton Tenure-track Assistant Professor

June 14, 2012

UTCS alum Arvind Narayanan, who completed his Ph.D. in 2009, will be starting in the fall at Princeton as a tenure-track assistant professor. ...

Tags: Alumni, Arvind Narayanan, Faculty, Vitaly Shmatikov

William Cook Wins Best Paper Award at ECOOP