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UTCS Announces New Faculty and Faculty Promotions

August 31, 2005

UTCS Congratulates New and Recently Promoted Faculty. ...

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Six named distinguished teachers at The University of Texas at Austin

July 11, 2005

Six faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin have been selected for membership in the university’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers. The academy is intended to recognize and enhance teaching, particularly at the undergraduate level. ...

Tags: Alan Cline, Awards & Honors, Faculty

Mighty Morphing Power Processors

June 6, 2005

IBM and others are racing to create chameleon chips that change to suit the job. ...

Tags: Doug Burger, Faculty, Research, Stephen Keckler

Professor Simon Lam and UTCS alumni share the 2004 ACM Software System Award

March 10, 2005

Secure Network Programming, a system designed and implemented in 1993 by Professor Simon Lam and three former graduate students in the UTCS Networking Research Lab, won the 2004 Software System Award, given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ...

Tags: ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Press Release, Research, Simon Lam, Software System Award

The Center for Information Assurance and Security (CIAS) has been founded at The University of Texas at Austin to address the nation's growing cybersecurity problems.

November 30, 2004

The Center for Information Assurance and Security (CIAS) has been founded at The University of Texas at Austin to address the nation's growing cybersecurity problems. Dr. Frederick R. ChangPrimary center objectives are conducting research that will lead to innovative cybersecurity solutions and addressing the national need to produce more trained professionals in the field. ...

Tags: Center for Information Assurance and Security, CIAS, Faculty, Fred Chang, Press Release, Research

Professor John Werth Dies September 15, 2004

September 15, 2004

"It is with great sadness that I report that John Werth died peacefully at home on Wednesday, September 15, 2004, after a struggle with cancer. John's dedication to Computer Sciences education and research were rivalled only by his warmth and support of students and colleagues. His loss is felt keenly by his family and friends everywhere. We will miss him." -J Strother Moore Chair, Computer Sciences ...

Tags: Faculty, John St. Clair Werth Jr., John Werth

Professor Emmett Witchel receives thesis award from MIT

September 7, 2004

Professor Emmet Witchel earned a thesis award from MIT and a doctoral dissertation award from ACM. ...

Tags: ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, Awards & Honors, Emmett Witchel, Faculty, George M. Sprowls Outstanding Thesis Award

rofessor Simon Lam Receives Communication Networks Award, Speaks on Improvements Needed for Internet's Architecture

September 3, 2004

Simon S. Lam, professor and Regents Chair in Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has received the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) Award for lifetime contribution to the field of communications networks. ...

Tags: ACM, Association of Computing Machinery, Faculty, SIGCOMM, Simon Lam, Special Interest Group on Data Communications Award

Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan appointed a Visiting Scholar at the Postel Center at the University of Southern California

August 31, 2004

At the Postel Center, Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan will be studying the histories of ARPAnet and Internet design using the Postel Center Archives -- housing documents written as far back as the 1960s -- as well as by interviewing key people in the initial development of the Internet. ...

Tags: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, Faculty

UTCS welcomes Professor Fred Chang

August 30, 2004

Dr. Frederick R. Chang will take the position of Research Professor at The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Computer Sciences (UTCS). ...

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UTCS welcomes Professor Vitaly Shmatikov

August 30, 2004

Vitaly Shmatikov has been hired as an Assistant Professor for UTCS, starting in the Fall 2004 Semester. ...

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Basu, Bilenko and Mooney receive the SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award

August 25, 2004

Sugato Basu, Misha Bilenko and Ray Mooney won the SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award for their paper "A Probabilistic Framework for Semi-supervised Clustering," presented at KDD2004, "the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining." ...

Tags: Faculty, Graduate Students, Misha Bilenko, Press Release, Ray Mooney, Research, Saguto Basu

UTCS Awards and Honors for Spring 2004

July 30, 2004

UTCS recognizes faculty and graduate students who earned awards in honors in 2004. ...

Tags: Austin Villa, Awards & Honors, Ben Kuipers, Dan Machold, David Zuckerman, E. Allen Emerson, Faculty, Graduate Students, Greg Johnson, Inderjit Dhillon, James C. Browne, Jayadev Misra, Peter Stone, Seth Pettie, Simon Lam, Stephen Keckler

UTCS Graduate Student Alex X. Liu receives the 2004 William C. Carter Award

July 9, 2004

For his paper entitled "Diverse Firewall Design" co-authored with Dr. Mohamed G. Gouda, UTCS Graduate Student Alex X. Liu received the 2004 William C. Carter Award. ...

Tags: Alex Liu, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Mohamed Gouda, Press Release, William C. Carter Award

Will the TRIPS project revolutionize high-performance computing?

June 7, 2004

In a recent article entitled "Fired Up for the Supercomputer Derby", Business Week highlighted the TRIPS technology along with the other competitors in the contest. ...

Tags: DARPA, Doug Burger, Faculty, IBM, Research, Stephen Keckler, TRIPS

Professor Simon Lam receives the 2004 ACM SIGCOMM Award and the 2004 W. Wallace McDowell Award

May 18, 2004

Professor Simon Lam receives the 2004 ACM SIGCOMM Award and the 2004 W. Wallace McDowell Award ...

Tags: ACM, Awards & Honors, Faculty, IEEE, SIGCOMM, Simon Lam, W. Wallace McDowell Award

Professor David Zuckerman receives a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship

April 13, 2004

Professor David Zuckerman has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to conduct his research on "Randomness and Computation." ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, David Zuckerman, Faculty, Guggenheim Fellowship

Professor Steve Keckler receives the 2003 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award

March 31, 2004

UTCS congratulates Steve Keckler on his 2003 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Stephen Keckler

University of Texas at Austin Team Finishes First in Coached Simulation League at International Robotic Championship

November 1, 2003

Dr. Peter Stone, assistant professor of computer sciences, and his student team won first place in a computer-simulated soccer competition at RoboCup 2003 in Italy. ...

Tags: artifical intelligence, Austin Villa, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Press Release, RoboCup

University of Texas at Austin Team Finishes First in Coached Simulation League at International Robotic Championship

July 12, 2003

Dr. Peter Stone, assistant professor of computer sciences, and his student team won first place in a computer-simulated soccer competition at RoboCup 2003 in Italy. ...

Tags: AIBO, Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Peter Stone, RoboCup

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