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President Obama Honors Computer Scientist

August 1, 2012

AUSTIN, Texas — Computer scientist Brent Waters was honored at the White House this week with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government for science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Computer Science, Press Release, Research

University of Texas at Austin Team Wins Robot Soccer World Championships in Two Divisions

June 27, 2012

The UT Austin Villa Standard Platform League RoboCup World Champion Team, which includes Dr. Peter Stone, doctoral students Todd Hester, Sam Barrett, Katie Genter, Piyush Khandelwal and Jake Menashe, and master’s student Yuchen He. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Press Release, Research

New Center for Cloud Computing Will Impact Mobile Computing and Internet Security

November 18, 2011

AUSTIN, Texas — As part of its research efforts to help create safer and faster computing, the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin has partnered with ...

Tags: cloud computing, College & Campus, Computer Science, Industry Relations, Main Page, News Releases, Press Release, Research, Research

New Center for Cloud Computing Created at The University of Texas at Austin in Partnership with SunGard Availability Services

November 10, 2011

Cloud computing, where all of our photos, emails, and data stored in a distributed “cloud,” is the future. To improve emerging cloud-based technologies, a new center for cloud computing research was recently created in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin in a partnership with SunGard Availability Services. ...

Tags: cloud computing, Industry Relations, Press Release, Research

Computer Scientist Brent Waters Selected as Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow

August 5, 2011

Microsoft Research has selected Assistant Professor Brent Waters as one of eight ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Brent Waters, Faculty, Press Release, Research

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

Innovative Summer Program in Computer Science Reaches Out to Teenage Girls to Promote Interest in Technology

June 16, 2011

The ninth annual First Bytes Summer Camp, sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science, begins on June 19 on the university campus. The free, weeklong camp showcases the potential of a rewarding career in technology to selected Texas high school girls. Campers work together on programming language labs and logic games, see surgical robots in action, meet professional computer scientists, get career mentoring, play games, enjoy campus life and get a taste of what it’s like to have a fascinating, well-paying job. ...

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Drug Design Receives Private Grand Challenge Research Funds

May 4, 2011

Professor Chandrajit Bajaj received a 2011-12 Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty Award to pursue his project on three-dimensional imaging at the molecular level of therapeutic drug targets. He was among seven University of Texas at Austin researchers selected for the award who are confronting what the scientific community has defined as this century's grand challenges in drug design, environmental sustainability and improved oil recovery. The awards range up to $60,000 for a semester. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Chandrajit Bajaj, disease, drug, Faculty, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty awards, Press Release, Research

Three cheers for Watson

February 11, 2011

Count computer scientists Bruce Porter, Ray Mooney and Ken Barker among those cheering for the machine in the Jeopardy! Challenge, which pits two human Jeopardy! champions against Watson, a computer built by IBM Corp. ...

Tags: Automated Reasoning, Bruce Porter, Faculty, IBM, In the News, Industry Relations, Kenneth Barker, Machine Reading, Press Release, Ray Mooney, Watson

New Computer Science Complex at The University of Texas at Austin Receives $30 Million Challenge Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

April 17, 2009

AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas at Austin announced today (April 17) a $30 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, part of a $120 million capital campaign to construct a new building complex for one of the nation’s leading computer science programs. ...

Tags: Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Capital Campaign, Press Release

Chang Appointed To New Congressional Commission On Cyber Security

October 30, 2007

Dr. Fred Chang, research professor of computer sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, and Admiral Bobby Inman, the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, have been appointed to the new Commission on Cyber Security, established to make sure that the next president of the United States has an updated strategy to counter growing cyber threats. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Fred Chang, Press Release

Self-Driving SUV Advances to DARPA Urban Challenge Semifinals

August 9, 2007

Marvin, a self-driving Isuzu SUV programmed by University of Texas at Austin computer scientists and members of Austin Robot Technology (ART), passed a recent driving test and will advance to the semifinals of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) 2007 Urban Challenge race. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Marvin, Peter Stone, Press Release, Research

UTCS faculty, Adam Klivans and Emmett Witchel, receive NSF CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Awards.

February 14, 2007

The CAREER Program offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. ...

Tags: Adam Klivans, Awards & Honors, Emmett Witchel, Faculty, Press Release

J Strother Moore and Simon Lam Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

February 3, 2007

UTCS faculty, Dr. J Moore and Dr. Simon Lam, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The NAE mission is to promote the technological welfare of the nation by marshaling the knowledge and insights of eminent members of the engineering profession. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, J Strother Moore, Press Release, Simon Lam

J Strother Moore Selected an ACM Fellow

November 8, 2006

UTCS Chairman J Strother Moore was selected a Fellow of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery. ...

Tags: ACM Fellow, Awards & Honors, Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover, Faculty, J Strother Moore, Press Release, Research

University of Texas at Austin Computer Sciences Professor Receives 2006 Maurice Wilkes Award

June 20, 2006

r. Doug Burger, professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has received the 2006 Maurice Wilkes Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ...

Tags: ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, Awards & Honors, Doug Burger, Faculty, Maurice Wilkes Award, Press Release

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Grants $50 Million to University of Texas to Bring Excellence in Children's Health and Education to Austin

May 12, 2006

Gift Includes Individual Grants for World-Class Facilities at UT Austin for Pediatric Health Research, Computer Science and the Advancement of Healthy Living ...

Tags: Capital Campaign, Dell Computer Science Hall, Giving, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Press Release

Boyer, Kaufmann and Moore awarded the 2005 ACM Software System Award for the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover

March 21, 2006

Professors Robert Boyer and J Strother Moore and Senior Research Scientist Matt Kaufmann, all from the University of Texas at Austin Computer Sciences Department, have been awarded the 2005 Software System Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for their work on the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover. ...

Tags: ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, Awards & Honors, Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover, Faculty, J Strother Moore, Matt Kaufmann, Press Release, Research, Robert Boyer, Secure Socket Layers, Software System Award

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. ...

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