Brent Waters

Brent Waters Wins Packard Fellowship

November 14, 2011

Brent Waters has won a Packard Fellowship. Only sixteen Packard Fellowships were awarded this year across all of science and engineering. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Brent Waters, cybersecurity, Faculty, functional encryption, Research

Recent Faculty Awards & Honors

September 9, 2011

Faculty at the The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science (UTCS) are at the forefront of the digital revolution. UTCS recently celebrated a long list of faculty awards. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Brent Waters, Calvin Lin, Chandrajit Bajaj, Faculty, Inderjit Dhillon, Michael Dahlin, Michael Scott, Michael Walfish, Peter Stone, William Press

Encrypting Data in the Cloud Brings Win for Texas

August 10, 2011

For his work on the foundations of a new way of encrypting data, Brent Waters from the University of Texas in Austin has been elected as one of this year's... ...

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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 ...

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Assistant Professor Brent Waters Selected as Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow

July 18, 2011

Microsoft Research has selected Assistant Professor Brent Waters as one of eight Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows of 2011. Microsoft Research is committed to developing a global pipeline of computer science talent around the world. ...

Tags: Awards & Honors, Brent Waters, Faculty, Industry Relations, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow

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

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