Research

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

UTCS Congratulates 2011 College of Natural Sciences Undergraduate Research Forum Award and Fellowship Winners!

May 3, 2011

On Friday, April 8, 2011, the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) hosted the annual Undergraduate Research Forum. Six UTCS students were recognized by the college for their outstanding posters and presentations and were honored with awards and fellowships. ...

Tags: College of Natural Sciences, Events, Research, Undergraduate Research Forum, Undergraduate Students

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University Partner to Promote Student Success

April 20, 2011

A new partnership between researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University has been created to help improve teaching and learning through educational innovation and technology. ...

Tags: Bruce Porter, Course Transformation Program, Educational Technology and Learning Analytics Advisory Panel, Faculty, Research, Undergraduate Program

Three Cheers for Watson

February 14, 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: Research

IBM to collaborate with universities on Watson's QA tech

February 11, 2011

IBM and eight universities from around the world will collaborate on developing the company's Watson supercomputer and the question-answering technology behind it. The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science which will collaborate on automated reasoning and common sense. ...

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

Securing the Cloud

January 18, 2011

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Tags: Internet, Research, Security

Better Animation Through Body Part Recycling

December 21, 2010

For all the power that computers have brought to the process of animation, it rem ...

Tags: Computer Science, Research

Seeing Anew

August 4, 2010

Every day—every minute, every second—the world’s computers are amassing visual information at an extraordinary rate. Aspiring Tarantinos are sending their two-minute videos to Youtube in the hopes of going viral. Mom and Dad are uploading their Napa Valley vacation photos to Flickr. Doctors are sending patient MRIs to medical databases, and satellites are scanning the earth for evidence of sinister activity. ...

Tags: Faculty, Kristen Grauman, Research

Computer Vision

August 4, 2010

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Data Mining, Faculty, Innovation Series, Kristen Grauman, Machine Learning, Natural Computation, Research

Computational Biologist, Tandy Warnow, wins Guggenheim Fellowship

May 3, 2010

UTCS professor Tandy Warnow has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for developing algorithms that enable an accounting of 3.5 billion years of evolutionary relationships. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation describes these awards as “intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Research, Tandy Warnow

Partnership with NSF Science and Techonology Center on "Evolution in Action" Brings $2.5M for UT BEACON Projects

February 23, 2010

The University of Texas at Austin is part of a $25 million, multi-university center established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will study evolution in action in natural and virtual settings. ...

Tags: Faculty, Research

UTCS Professor, Keshav Pingali, Wins Honors

January 4, 2010

Professor Keshav Pingali has been named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his distinguished contributions to the "development and application of computer science technologies to enhance the effectiveness of formulating, compiling and executing parallel and distributed programs. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Research

Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States Visits UTCS

October 28, 2009

The Department of Computer Science hosted a luncheon and briefing for Mr. Aneesh Chopra, the newly appointed Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States. Mr. Chopra was recently appointed to the position by President Barack Obama. ...

Tags: Aneesh Chopra, Outreach, Research, Undergraduate Program

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

New Digital Security Program Doesn't Protect as Promised

September 29, 2009

University of Texas at Austin scientists have shown that they can break "Vanish," a program that promised to self-destruct computer data, such as emails and photographs, and thereby protect a person's privacy. ...

Tags: Brent Waters, cybersecurity, email, Emmett Witchel, Faculty, privacy, Research, Unvanish, Vanish

Robots Play Winning Soccer

July 3, 2009

Texas Computer Science students are programming robots to play soccer... and winning. Current robots are only 2-feet high, but the goal is to develop robotic players large and skillful enough to beat a real-live World Cup team by 2050. Students from Texas Tech (TT) and The University of Texas at Austin (UT) use C++ to program robots to play without human interaction during the games. The robots play as a team and make individual decisions. ...

Tags: AIBO, Artificial Intelligence, Faculty, Innovation Series, Nao, Peter Stone, Research, robot

Neural Network Systems

May 4, 2009

Uli Grasemann and Risto Miikkulainen are using their neural network system, DISCERN, to model what might be going on inside a schizophrenic brain. DISCERN can understand and produce natural language. Working with Ralph Hoffman, a psychiatrist at Yale, they have also been able to pair their neural network results with a study of human schizophrenics, and the similarities have been striking. ...

Tags: DISCERN, dopamine, Faculty, hyperlearning, Innovation Series, neural network systems, Research, Risto Miikkulainen, schizophrenia, Uli Grasemann

Kathryn McKinley Named ACM Fellow

January 15, 2009

Dr. Kathryn McKinley, professor at The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences, was awarded Fellow status with a citation for "contributions to compilers and memory management." ...

Tags: ACM Fellow, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Kathryn McKinley, Research

Assembling the Tree of Life

March 3, 2008

Scientists map the evolutionary relationships for all life on the planet ...

Tags: Algorithmic Computational Biology, Research

ACM Turing Award Honors Founders of Automatic Verification Technology That Enables Faster, More Reliable Designs

February 4, 2008

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis the winners of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award, widely considered the most prestigious award in computing, for their original and continuing research in a quality assurance process known as Model Checking. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, E. Allen Emerson, Faculty, model checking, Research

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