Explore UT

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Explore UT, a campus community engagement event held each March, aims to inform the public about the university's mission - teaching, research and public service. It invites Texans of all ages to experience the intellectual life, technological advances and rich resources of a world-class university. It helps them see how the university is shaping the future. 

Thousands of people explore the UTCS program at Explore UT, discovering the fun of computer science, engaging in artificial intelligence, software programming, gaming, graphics and visualization, and chatting with academic advisers.

UTCS’s 2011 Explore UT events included:

  • RoboCup Teams - Soccer teams of robot dogs & humanoid robots
  • Human Behavior in Virtual Environments – A virtual reality art museum
  • Computer Intelligence in Games - Interact with intelligent & adaptive agents in computer games
  • “Look Mom, No Driver!” – A car that drives autonomously in traffic
  • EGaDS! Electronic Game Developer’s Society - Create a video game & play
  • Game Making with Scratch - Program a computer & make a video game
  • Visualization Experience - Visualization Lab
  • CS Alumni Table - Find out what will replace Taylor Hall & reconnect via the Alumni Program
  • Autonomous Robots Presentation - Robotic soccer, artificial intelligence & machine learning
  • Computer Vision & Machine Learning Presentation - Interactive talk about computer vision & machine learning
  • What It’s Like to Major in Computer Science Presentation - The scoop: majoring in CS at UT
  • Easy, Hard, Impossible Presentation - Computing challenges with puzzles & games
  • CS Advising Office Presentation - Advisors answer questions about CS major