Peter Stone

Current and Past Ph.D. Students Win Awards

August 8, 2012

Two of UTCS's current and past Ph.D. students have won significant awards. ...

Tags: Alumni, Awards & Honors, Graduate Students, Matt Taylor, Peter Stone, Research, Siavash Mirarab, Tandy Warnow

Robot Sport: Heavy Hitters

July 21, 2012

Sporting robots are still slow. But their inventors are making rapid strides ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Faculty, Nao, Peter Stone, Research, RoboCup

Putting the Auto in Automobile

July 5, 2012

Peter Stone talks about autonomous vehicles and intersections with Michael Breen of American Mathematical Society on this podcast episode of Mathematical Moments. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research

UT robots win soccer championship in Mexico City

June 26, 2012

UT Austin Villa, a team of robots led by University of Texas computer scientists, took home two 2012 Robot Soccer World Cup division championships during the RoboCup 2012 in Mexico City this month. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Faculty, Graduate Students, In the News, Jake Menashe, Katie Genter, Nao, Peter Stone, Piyush Khandelwal, RoboCup, Sam Barrett, Todd Hester, UT Austin Villa, Yuchen He

Professor Peter Stone Elected AAAI Fellow

May 23, 2012

Professor Peter Stone has been elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for his significant contributions to machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics, and pioneering applications in robot soccer, trading agents, and autonomous driving domains. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Peter Stone, Research

5 Ways Self-Driving Cars Will Make You Love Commuting

May 17, 2012

Ordinary Americans can't buy intelligent, self-driving cars just yet, but the technology could someday revolutionize one of the nation's most common road rituals—the morning and evening commutes that bookend the workday for millions of people. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research

No lights, no signs, no accidents - future intersections for driverless cars

March 23, 2012

Computer scientists at the University of Texas in Austin are developing intersections of the future, designed to accommodate the driverless vehicles they believe will soon take over our roads. The intersection will have no traffic lights and no stop signs, just computer programs that will talk directly to each car on the road. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Peter Stone, Research

UT professor leads research into autonomous intersection technology

March 4, 2012

Having already designed an SUV that drives itself, a project group at the University of Texas is now working on the technological next step: an autonomous intersection that lets driverless vehicles navigate without stoplights or stop signs. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research

Avoiding Red Lights by Booking Ahead

February 21, 2012

Discovery News asks, "Computers can reserve your plane ticket, your hotel room and your restaurant table. Why not your place at an intersection?" ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research

UT Prof Pioneers ‘Intersections of the Future’

February 21, 2012

KUT | Andrew Uhler ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, autonomous intersection management, Faculty, In the News, Marvin, Peter Stone, 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

Intersections of the Future: Using Fully Autonomous Vehicles

February 6, 2012

The future looks like this: You are sitting in the backseat of the car drinking coffee and reading the news on your tablet. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, College of Natural Sciences, Faculty, high-performance computing, Machine Learning, Marvin, Peter Stone, Research, robotics

Research Corner: Gates Building Prediction Market

January 25, 2012

Prediction markets are popular for aggregating opinions regarding the likelihood of future events by enabling people to buy and sell "shares" that indicate whether or not they think the event will happen. There has been some evidence that the market prices are reasonably accurate predictors of whether those events will actually happen. ...

Tags: 2012, News@UTCS, Newsletter, Peter Stone, Prediction Markets, Research, Research Corner, Winter

Professor works with graduate students, undergrads to develop robot technology

November 13, 2011

As an educator, associate computer science professor Peter Stone has a unique perspective on who, or what, can learn. Stone has spent his time at UT working with students to develop intelligent robots capable of learning and adapting to their environments. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Faculty, Graduate Students, Peter Stone, Research, RoboCup, robotics

Peter Stone Named 2011 Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program Recipient

September 12, 2011

The Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty members working in areas of mutual interest. Through this program, academics across the globe collaborate with Yahoo! research scientists via visits to Yahoo!, access to our data and funds for their research. ...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Awards & Honors, Faculty, Industry Relations, Peter Stone

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

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

RoboCup 2010: Austin Team shines in International Competition

June 29, 2010

Peter Stone's UT Austin Villa RoboCup team won third place in an international robotic soccer competition in Singapore. The team placed third out of 24 teams in the RoboCup standard platform league, which concentrates on writing software to control Nao mini-humaniod robots. The team also finished 2nd place in the challenge events which tested passing and dribbling skills as well as a demonstration of scientific advances. Earlier this spring, the team won the US Open for the second year in a row. ...

Tags: Peter Stone, RoboCup

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

Computer Scientist Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

April 8, 2008

AUSTIN, Texas — Peter Stone, associate professor of computer sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on teams of mobile robots. ...

Tags: AI, artifical intelligence, Awards & Honors, DARPA, Faculty, Guggenheim Fellowship, Peter Stone, technology, Urban Challenge

Peter Stone

News & Events