Computer Science

Team Creates World’s Smallest Semiconductor Laser

August 1, 2012

Forbes reports on research done at UT, with colleagues in China and Taiwan, to create a nano laser device. ...

Tags: Computer Science, In the News, Nanoscience, Research

Computer Science Combats Disease

July 25, 2012

By David Maly, The Daily Texan, 7/18/2012 ...

Tags: Chandrajit Bajaj, Computer Science, Faculty, Health & Medicine, Infectious Disease, Research

Intern Stories: A Summer at Amazon

July 23, 2012

By Katie Thompson, the Career Design Center Elynn Lee is a Software Development Engineering (SDE) intern at Amazon on the Kindle Reader Framework team. This is her second internship, her first one being at Facebook in Palo Alto, California. She is simultaneously doing research on a SRC-URO fellowship in Computational Epidemiology. ...

Tags: careers, Computer Science, Industry Relations, Q&A, Research, Student Life, Turing Scholars Honors, Undergraduate Students

Intern Stories: Facebooking on the Job

July 19, 2012

By Katie Thompson, the Career Design Center Parth Upadhyay is a Software Development Engineering (SDE) intern at Facebook on the Real Time Infrastructure team. This is his second internship. His first internship was at Bloomberg in New York City, New York. ...

Tags: careers, Computer Science, Industry Relations, Main Page, Q&A, Research, Student Life, Turing Scholars Honors, Undergraduate Students

UT Robots Win Soccer Championship

July 3, 2012

The Austin Business Journal reports on our robot squad’s triumph in Mexico City. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Honors & Awards, In the News, Research

Computer Science Camp is Geared to Girls

June 13, 2012

Event: First Bytes, An Innovative Summer Program in Computer Science to Promote Interest in Technology in Teenage Girls When: June 17–22, various times Where: Various locations on The University of Texas at Austin campus (see below for details) and across Austin ...

Tags: College & Campus, Computer Science, Main Page, News Releases

Molecular Matchmaking for Drug Discovery

June 5, 2012

[By Aaron Dubrow, Texas Advanced Computing Center] ...

Tags: Computer Science, ICES, Main Page, Research, TACC

A Tree of Life Grows in Texas

April 11, 2012

Tandy Warnow, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Computer Science. ...

Tags: Biology, Computer Science, evolution, Featured, Main Page, Research, TACC

In a World of Driverless Cars

March 16, 2012

The Cities page on Atlantic.com takes a look at research on the intersections of the future done by computer scientist Peter Stone. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, In the News, Research

Five Natural Sciences Faculty Receive Sloan Fellowships

February 22, 2012

Five faculty in the College of Natural Sciences have recently been awarded 2012 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships are given to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders. The recipients are: ...

Tags: Chemistry & Biochemistry, College & Campus, Computer Science, Honors & Awards, Main Page, Mathematics, Neuroscience, News Releases

Power Profiles to Help Electronics Go Green

February 21, 2012

Computerworld discusses “power profile” research by a UT computer science professor. ...

Tags: Computer Science, Energy, In the News, Main Page, Nanoscience, Research

Computer Scientist Developing Intersections of the Future With Fully Autonomous Vehicles

February 20, 2012

Peter Stone rides in Marvin, the autonomous car designed by he and his students. Photo by Wyatt McSpadden. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Computer Science, Faculty, Featured, Main Page, Marvin, News Releases, Peter Stone, Research, Top News

Students Start-Up for Credit

February 1, 2012

Alejandro Weibel, Dakota Gordon, Ian Beckcom and Andrew Miller formed Homeroom, a company that runs an online learning management syst ...

Tags: College & Campus, Computer Science, Featured, Main Page, Student Life, Teaching

Research Could Lower Device Energy Use

January 30, 2012

TechJournal South reports on computer scientist Kathryn McKinley’s creation of power profiles for microprocessors. ...

Tags: Computer Science, Energy, environ, In the News, Research

Toward Lowering the Power Consumption of Microprocessors

January 20, 2012

AUSTIN, Texas – The first systematic power profiles of microprocessors could help lower the energy consumption of both small cell phones and giant data centers, report computer science professors from The University of Texas at Austin and the Australian National University. ...

Tags: Computer Science, Energy, Faculty, Featured, Kathryn McKinley, Main Page, Research, Research

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

Game Development Program Is Launched

January 17, 2012

AUSTIN, Texas-The College of Natural Sciences is teaming up with two other colleges at the university to launch undergraduate students into an interdisciplinary game development program. ...

Tags: Computer Science, Featured, Main Page, News Releases, Student Life, Teaching

Austin Battles Shortage of Tech Talent

December 14, 2011

Computer science chair Bruce Porter is quoted in this piece from the Austin American-Statesman about the shortage of tech talent in Austin. ...

Tags: College & Campus, Computer Science, In the News, Main Page

UT Partners with SunGard

November 27, 2011

The Daily Texan reports on a partnership between the department of Computer Science and SunGard Availability Services to improve emerging cloud-based technologies through a new center for cloud computing research. ...

Tags: Computer Science, In the News, Main Page

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

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