Faculty

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

Stone & Team Participate in RoboCup 2003

June 15, 2003

Assistant Professor Peter Stone and his team of students are headed to Padua, Italy, for the 2003 RoboCup. ...

Tags: AIBO, artifical intelligence, Faculty, Graduate Students, Press Release, Research, RoboCup

Nell Dale--Winner of Hamilton Book Authors' Award

June 1, 2003

Nell B. Dale with coauthor, John Lewis, received honorable mention and a $3,000 prize for their book, Computer Sciences Illuminated published by Jones and Bartlett. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Nell Dale, Press Release

College Honors Four UTCS Faculty/Staff

May 3, 2003

On Friday, May 2, 2003, the sixth annual College of Natural Sciences Honors and Awards Banquet was held recognizing outstanding advising, outreach, and teaching excellence. Our department was fortunate to have Pat Horne, Stephanie Shaffer, Doug Burger, and Calvin Lin recognized for outstanding accomplishments. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, College of Natural Sciences, Faculty, staff

ASE 2002 Best Paper Award

September 27, 2002

The paper "Generating Product-Lines of Product-Families" by Don Batory, Roberto Lopez-Herrejon, and Jean-Phillipe Martin won a best paper award at ASE 2002. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Don Batory, Faculty

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: 1930-2002

August 6, 2002

Professor Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, a noted pioneer of the science and industry of computing, died after a long struggle with cancer on 6 August 2002 at his home in Nuenen, the Netherlands. ...

Tags: Edsger W. Dijkstra, Faculty

Nell Dale Receives Karlstrom Award

April 13, 2002

Dr. Nell B. Dale, Senior Lecturer and member of the UT Department of Computer Sciences since 1975, received the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s prestigious Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for "changing the study of computer programming to focus on problem solving and software engineering principles, and away from language syntax." ...

Tags: Faculty, Karlstrom Award, Nell Dale