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Computer Scientist Developing Intersections of the Future With Fully Autonomous Vehicles

February 20, 2012

Peter Stone rides in Marvin, the autonomous car designed by he and his students. Photo by Wyatt McSpadden. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Computer Science, Faculty, Featured, Main Page, Marvin, News Releases, Peter Stone, Research, Top News

Grauman and Walfish Named 2012 Sloan Research Fellows

February 15, 2012

Congratulations to Associate Professor Kristen Grauman and Michael Walfish! Both were recently awarded Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows. ...

Tags: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Kristen Grauman, Michael Walfish, Research

Intersections of the Future: Using Fully Autonomous Vehicles

February 6, 2012

The future looks like this: You are sitting in the backseat of the car drinking coffee and reading the news on your tablet. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, College of Natural Sciences, Faculty, high-performance computing, Machine Learning, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research, robotics

ACL2 Team Wins Gold

January 28, 2012

At the VSTTE conference, held as part of the POPL Symposium in Philadelphia, UTCS's very own ACL2 team was awarded one of the two Gold Medals in the 2012 VSTTE verification competition. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students

Faculty at the The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science (UTCS) are at the forefront of the digital revolution. Congratulations to the following faculty for their accomplishments... ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students

Faculty Research Gifts

January 25, 2012

UTCS is a leading research institution in computer science. Collaborations with industry and industry support ensure superior research continues to move the Texas digital economy forward. ...

Tags: 2012, Faculty, Industry Relations, News@UTCS, Newsletter, Research, Winter

Toward Lowering the Power Consumption of Microprocessors

January 20, 2012

AUSTIN, Texas – The first systematic power profiles of microprocessors could help lower the energy consumption of both small cell phones and giant data centers, report computer science professors from The University of Texas at Austin and the Australian National University. ...

Tags: Computer Science, Energy, Faculty, Featured, Kathryn McKinley, Main Page, Research, Research

Stephen Keckler Awarded ACM Fellow

December 12, 2011

Professor Stephen Keckler, professor at The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science, was awarded Fellow status with a citation "for contributions to computer architectures and technology modeling." ...

Tags: Association of Computing Machinery, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Stephen Keckler

Great Success at NIPS Conference

December 9, 2011

Professor Inderjit Dhillon and Assistant Professor Pradeep Ravikumar, together with their postdoc Ambuj Tewari, had remarkable success at The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference this year. They submitted seven papers and all were accepted. NIPS's acceptance rate is about 20%. ...

Tags: Ambuj Tewari, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Inderjit Dhillon, Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS, Pradeep Ravikumar

Yin Zhang Wins Best Paper Award

November 28, 2011

Yin Zhang, along with his former student Ajay Mahimkar (now at AT&T Research) and several other co-authors, won the Best Paper Award at ACM CoNEXT 2011. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Yin Zhang

Brent Waters Wins Packard Fellowship

November 14, 2011

Brent Waters has won a Packard Fellowship. Only sixteen Packard Fellowships were awarded this year across all of science and engineering. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Brent Waters, cybersecurity, Faculty, functional encryption, Research

Texas Instruments and UT Austin collaborate to deliver linear algebra library on TI's high performance multicore DSPs

November 14, 2011

Setting yet another milestone in multicore innovation, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) have successfully ported UT Austin's libflame library, a dense linear algebra library for scientific computing, to TI's TMS320C6678 multicore digital signal processor (DSP). ...

Tags: Faculty, Industry Relations, linear algebra libraries, Research, Robert van de Geijn, Texas Instruments

Professor works with graduate students, undergrads to develop robot technology

November 13, 2011

As an educator, associate computer science professor Peter Stone has a unique perspective on who, or what, can learn. Stone has spent his time at UT working with students to develop intelligent robots capable of learning and adapting to their environments. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Faculty, Graduate Students, Peter Stone, Research, RoboCup, robotics

Kristen Grauman Awarded The Marr Prize

November 11, 2011

UTCS Assistant Professor Kristen Grauman and Devi Parikh of the Toyota Technological Institute Chicago (TTIC), and a former visiting postdoc, received the Marr Prize at ICCV for their paper "Relative Attributes" that was presented at the13th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in 2011. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Computer Vision, Faculty, Kristen Grauman, Research

2011 Visions of Computing Lecture Retrospective

October 27, 2011

On Wednesday, October 26, 2011, the University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science held the annual Visions of Computing Lecture, a lecture series honoring UTCS faculty accomplishments. Through this lecture series, faculty presented insights into computer science research and education to the public and the computing community. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Events, Faculty, Raymond Mooney, Tandy Warnow, Visions of Computing Lecture Series, William Press

2011 Visions of Computing Lecture

October 13, 2011

On Wednesday, October 26, 2011, the University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science will hold the annual Visions of Computing Lecture, a lecture series honoring UTCS faculty accomplishments. Through this lecture series, faculty present insights into computer science research and education to the public and the computing community. This year's lecture will take place from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. in the Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Events, Faculty, Raymond Mooney, Tandy Warnow, Visions of Computing Lecture Series, William Press

Peter Stone Named 2011 Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program Recipient

September 12, 2011

The Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty members working in areas of mutual interest. Through this program, academics across the globe collaborate with Yahoo! research scientists via visits to Yahoo!, access to our data and funds for their research. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Industry Relations, Peter Stone

Best Paper Awards

September 12, 2011

UTCS is pleased to announce Best Paper Awards won by our faculty, staff and students. ...

Tags: Amin Shall, Awards & Honors, Best Paper Award, Faculty, Graduate Students, Research, Risto Miikkulainen, William Cook

Recent Faculty Awards & Honors

September 9, 2011

Faculty at the The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science (UTCS) are at the forefront of the digital revolution. UTCS recently celebrated a long list of faculty awards. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Brent Waters, Calvin Lin, Chandrajit Bajaj, Faculty, Inderjit Dhillon, Michael Dahlin, Michael Scott, Michael Walfish, Peter Stone, William Press

Encrypting Data in the Cloud Brings Win for Texas

August 10, 2011

For his work on the foundations of a new way of encrypting data, Brent Waters from the University of Texas in Austin has been elected as one of this year's... ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Brent Waters, Faculty, In the News, Research

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