Graduate Students

Former UTCS Student Elected IEEE Fellow

November 28, 2011

UTCS graduate Ken Calvert was elected to IEEE Fellow "for contributions to internet topology and active networks." ...

Tags: Alumni, Awards & Honors, Graduate Students, IEEE

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

FoCS Career Brunch 2011

September 19, 2011

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science (UTCS) Friends of Computer Science (FoCS) 2011 Career Brunch was held in conjunction with the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Career Expo on September 19, 2011 at the Frank Erwin Center. ...

Tags: Events, FoCS, FoCS Career Brunch, Friends of Computer Science, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Undergraduate Students

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

RoboCup Remix

July 28, 2011

RoboCup Remix from Texas Science on Vimeo. The video footage is from the second half of the championship game in the 3-D Simulation league in RoboCupSoccer 2011. UT Austin Villa won the game, 4-0, over a team from Changzhou Institute of Technology in China. The audio track is “humm ok,” by Gablé (Creative Commons). ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Extracts, Faculty, Graduate Students, Multimedia, Research, Video

UT Austin Villa Wins World RoboCup Championships

July 19, 2011

AUSTIN, Texas—UT Austin Villa, a team of programmers led by University of Texas at Austin computer scientists Peter Stone and Patrick MacAlpine, has won the 2011 RoboCup Soccer championships in the 3-D simulation division. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Graduate Students, Peter Stone, Press Release, Research

2011 UTCS Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony

May 25, 2011

UTCS honored new Ph.D. graduates at its annual hooding ceremony. Each new graduate received a short testimonial from his or her graduate research advisor. The new doctors were then hooded by UTCS Professor Lorenzo Alvisi. Afterwards, a reception was held for graduates, faculty, friends and family. ...

Tags: Events, Graduate Students, graduation, Ph.D. Hooding

Good Bytes and Good Luck!

May 6, 2011

The Department of Computer Science congratulates its graduating students of 2011. We wished them “Good Bytes and Good Luck” with a graduation celebration catered by Austin’s own Amy’s Ice Cream. ...

Tags: Amy's Ice cream, Events, Graduate Students, graduation, Undergraduate Students

Computer claims responsibility for terrorist bombing

May 6, 2011

In a bid to help understand the way that the human brain malfunctions to cause mental illness scientists have caused a computer system to lose its mind and claim responsibilty for a terrorist bombing. The team at the University of Texas and Yale University, including Professor Risto Miikkulainen and grad student Uli Grasemann, were looking to how the human brain is affected with schizophrenia by simulating a hypothesis that excessive dopamine in the brain can cause “exaggerated salience”, whereby the brain is learning from things it shouldn’t. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Faculty, Graduate Students, Machine Learning, Natural Computation, Research, Risto Miikkulainen

The Department of Computer Science Congratulates Students Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

April 18, 2011

The Department of Computer Science congratulates the 22 computer science majors who were recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa at its Spring meeting. Upon joining, they will be inducted into the national honor society at the UT chapter's Spring reception on Sunday, May 8, in the in the Ballroom of the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Graduate Students, Phi Beta Kappa, Undergraduate Students

The Challenge: Start a Tech Company in 3 Days

April 3, 2011

How many times have you or one of your friends had a really great idea for a tech startup, but never implemented it? Maybe there wasn’t enough money, any access to people with complementary skills, or not enough confidence to get it off the ground. 3-Day Startup (3DS) provides the opportunity to pitch that idea to a panel of potential investors, release a prototypeand build enough momentum to sustain a startup company outside the event. ...

Tags: 3 Day Startup, entrepreneurship, Graduate Students, Industry Relations

GradFest Open House 2011

February 25, 2011

The Department of Computer Science hosted prospective Ph.D. students at GradFest 2011, a two-day exploration of UTCS research, resources, and community. Over 20 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 Students

2011 Scholarship Lunch

February 2, 2011

The Department of Computer Science (CS) recognized scholarship recipients, scholarship donors, and Friends of Computer Science (FoCS) members with a Scholarship Luncheon at the Alumni Center on February 2, 2011. ...

Tags: Donors, Events, FoCS, Graduate Students, Outreach, Scholarships, Undergraduate Students

FoCS Career Brunch 2010

September 21, 2010

The 2010 Career Brunch was held in conjunction with the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Career Expo on September 20, 2010 at the Frank Erwin Center. ...

Tags: FoCS, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Undergraduate Students

2010 UTCS Hooding Ceremony

June 4, 2010

UTCS honored new Ph.D. graduates at its annual hooding ceremony. Each new graduate received a short testimonial from his or her graduate research advisor. The new doctors were then hooded by UTCS Chair Bruce Porter. Afterwards, a reception was held for graduates, faculty, friends and family. ...

Tags: Graduate Students

2010 Scholarship Lunch

February 3, 2010

The Department of Computer Sciences (CS) recognized scholarship recipients,scholarship donors, and Friends of Computer Sciences (FoCS) members with a Scholarship Luncheon at the Alumni Center on February 3, 2010.We appreciate the generosity of families and friends who have named scholarships in honor of a loved one and the generosity of our corporate donors.UTCS Scholarship Donors Friends of Computer Sciences (FoCS) members, are denoted in bold. ...

Tags: Donors, Graduate Students, Industry Relations, Scholarship Lunch, Scholarships, Undergraduate Students

Protecting Privacy

October 16, 2009

With so much information being shared online these days, it’s critical that much of it remains private and anonymous. We trust, for example, that social networking sites such as Facebook remove personally identifiable information when they share our preferences and desires with advertisers. Vitaly Shmatikov, a young, fast-talking associate professor of computer science studies privacy in ubiquitous data sharing systems, from Facebook to hospitals to Netflix. ...

Tags: Arvind Narayanan, cyber security, data sharing, Emmett Witchel, epidemiological, Faculty, genome, Graduate Students, Innovation Series, network neighborhood, privacy, Research, social networking, Vitaly Shmatikov

2009 UTCS Hooding Ceremony

May 22, 2009

UTCS honored this year's Ph.D. graduates with its first annual hooding ceremony. Chair J Moore, clad in ceremonial kilt, performed the hooding. Graduate research advisers spoke of each graduate's special traits and accomplishments. Afterwards, a reception was held for graduates, faculty, friends and family. ...

Tags: Graduate Students, Ph.D. Hooding

Computer Science Student Wins $5,000 Michael H. Granof Outstanding Dissertation Award

May 15, 2009

Computer Science graduate student Benjamin Hardekopf was presented the $5,000 Outstanding Dissertation Award, which recognizes exceptional work by doctoral students. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Benjamin Hardekopf, Graduate Students

The Department of Computer Science Congratulates Students Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

April 16, 2009

The Department of Computer Sciences congratulates the five computer science majors who were recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa at its Spring meeting. ...

Tags: Alian Rodriguez, Andrey Petrov, Ari Schulman, Awards & Honors, Graduate Students, Joshua Gunter, Rebecca Carpenter, Undergraduate Students

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