Undergraduate Program

UT 3rd Best Public University in Game Design and Development

July 15, 2013

The University of Texas at Austin was recently ranked 17th in AnimationCareerReview.com's "2013 Top 50 Schools in the US for Game Design and Development." UTCS comes in 3rd among all public schools that made the list and is the only Texas university in the top 25. ...

Tags: Game Development, Gaming, Industry Relations, Undergraduate Program

Glenn Downing Spearheads Collaborative Open Source Project Course

July 9, 2013

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science (UTCS) collaborated with Facebook and 12 universities from Europe, China and the United States to provide practical, collaborative software engineering experience as part of its computer science curriculum. ...

Tags: Facebook, Faculty, Glenn Downing, Industry Relations, Stanford University, Undergraduate Program

Student Entrepreneurs Meet With President Obama

May 9, 2013

Austin, TX — Student entrepreneurs and computer science faculty met with President Obama to showcase new student ventures from the Longhorn Startup Program. ...

Tags: 1 Semester Startup, entrepreneurship, Faculty, Industry Relations, Joshua Baer, Longhorn Startup, Undergraduate Program, Undergraduate Students

Digital Journalism: Bringing Apps to Life

May 8, 2013

What do you get when you bring journalism students together with computer science students? Five teams working on creating mobile apps and getting them into the iPhone app store by semester’s end. ...

Tags: App Demo Day, mobile apps, School of Journalism, Undergraduate Program

UTCS Alum Awarded NSF EAPSI 2013 Fellowship

April 5, 2013

UTCS alum Paul Taele has been awarded a National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (NSF EAPSI) fellowship for 2013. Paul will be carrying out research that focuses on enhancing creative computing tools for promoting better design thinking using sketch recognition techniques with Dr. Richard C. Davis at Singapore Management University in Singapore. ...

Tags: Alumni, Awards & Honors, Elaine Rich, Faculty, Michael Scott, Paul Taele, Research, Risto Miikkulainen, Undergraduate Program

UTCS Gets Involved in Online Courses and Educational Research Through EdX

March 28, 2013

In October 2012, University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa announced the decision of the UT System to participate in EdX, an online non-profit learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The University of Texas was the first public school system to join the partnership, which previously consisted of Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley. ...

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Gates Opens Building, Talks Health

March 7, 2013

In a speech Wednesday to an audience of computer science students, Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, offered his vision of how the computing revolution will dramatically improve human well-being in the next few decades. ...

Tags: Alumni, Awards & Honors, Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chandrajit Bajaj, Dell Computer Science Hall, Events, Faculty, Graduate Program, Industry Relations, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Research, Undergraduate Program

Capital Campaign Update: The Next Chapter

December 19, 2012

In less than a month, the fences come down and UT Computer Science will be handed the keys to its new home—The Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall. [...] philanthropy’s importance has moved well beyond large capital projects like this one; it is now central to everything we do. ...

Tags: Alumni, Faculty, Graduate Program, Industry Relations, Undergraduate Program

A New Curriculum for a New Marketplace

December 7, 2012

UTCS develops a new, flexible curriculum in response to an expanding field of study and explosive enrollment growth that many are referring to as a new Sputnik moment. ...

Tags: Undergraduate Program, Undergraduate Students

UT, A&M Among Nation’s Best Values: Report

December 6, 2012

Can a university engaged in world-changing research truly educate undergraduate students? A new study finds that UT-Austin (and Texas A&M) is doing just that. ...

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Mike Scott Wins 2012-13 President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award

December 3, 2012

President Powers recently announced Michael Scott as a recipient of the 2012-13 President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award. This award recognizes Mike's consistent levels of excellence in teaching undergraduates. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Faculty, Michael Scott, Undergraduate Program, Undergraduate Students

UTCS Ranked No. 9 World-wide

August 21, 2012

The University of Texas of Austin is No. 35 in the world, according to the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) compiled by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In specific fields the university ranked No. 9 in computer science. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Graduate Program, Undergraduate Program

The Department of Computer Science Tweaks Curriculum to Be More Flexible

June 24, 2012

The Department of Computer Science will decrease the number of required classes needed to obtain a degree from the department, a move some faculty hope will allow students to specialize in their interests and experience more while attending school. ...

Tags: Bruce Porter, Calvin Lin, curriculum, In the News, Undergraduate Program, William Cook

Most wanted: Students with technical degrees

May 16, 2012

This year’s graduates in computer science, engineering and accounting are in high demand in the strongest job market for graduates since 2008, says the National Association of Colleges and Employers. NACE shows a 10.2 percent increase in hiring over 2011. - Michael Okoniewsk/Bloomberg News ...

Tags: careers, Undergraduate Program

1 Semester Startup Class to Host “Demo Day” with Special Guest James Truchard, President and CEO of National Instruments

April 23, 2012

UT NewsEvent: 1 Semester Startup's "Demo Day" featuring James Truchard, president and CEO of National InstrumentsWhen: Thursday, April 26, 5-9 p.m., open to the publicWhere: LBJ Auditorium at the LBJ Museum and Library, 2313 Red River St., University of Texas at Austin ...

Tags: 1 Semester Startup, Demo Day, entrepreneurship, Industry Relations, Longhorn Startup Camp, Media Advisory, National Instruments, Technology Entrepreneurship Society, Undergraduate Program

Students Start-up for Credit

January 17, 2012

The Daily Texan reports on 1 Semester Startup, an interdisciplinary course that the Department of Computer Science helped create. ...

Tags: Computer Science, entrepreneurship, In the News, Industry Relations, Student Life, Undergraduate Program, Undergraduate Students

Where 94% of grads get jobs

January 7, 2012

CNN Video: Where 94% of grads get jobs. Majoring in computer science is hot right now. Enrollment is up, and undergrads are rocking the job market. ...

Tags: careers, Graduate Program, Industry Relations, Undergraduate Program

Get Started at UT

December 16, 2011

1 Semester Startup (ISS) is a new practicum course designed to accelerate UT undergraduate students’ startups for degree credit. It allows undergraduates to experience entrepreneurship first-hand while learning from some of the most successful entrepreneurs in Austin. On December 1st, 1SS students presented their startups in five-minute investor pitches to the Austin entrepreneurial community. ...

Tags: 1 Semester Startup, entrepreneurship, Undergraduate Program, Undergraduate Students

Want to Make Games for a Living?

November 1, 2011

The new Game Development Program is designed to serve undergraduate students in Radio-TV-Film, Fine Arts and Computer Science. Students majoring in these areas will take classes in their discipline, as described below. After gaining that experience, and typically in their senior year at UT, students from these three disciplines will come together in an interdisciplinary Capstone Project class. ...

Tags: Capstone Project, Game Development, Gaming, Undergraduate Program

Two UTCS Teams Named Finalists in Yahoo!'s Open Hack All Stars event in New York City

September 21, 2011

Two UTCS teams made it to the final round of the Yahoo! Open Hack All Stars event in New York City. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, FoCS, Industry Relations, Undergraduate Program

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