Competing for Top Students: The Scholarship Challenge
12/13/2012 - Competition for top students is at an all-time high, and state support is at an all-time low. Some alumni are stepping in to fill the gap and challenging others to do the same.
Alumni
Alumni in the News: Turing Scholars Graduate Mickey Ristroph Wins CTO of the Year
11/19/2012 - Mutual Mobile announced that Chief Technology Officer Mickey Ristroph has been honored by the 2012 Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) as Information Technologist and CTO of the Year.
Microsoft's Craig Mundie Shares Insight to Packed House
11/08/2012 - On November 2, 2012 the Department of Computer Science hosted Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer. To a packed house of over 250, Mr. Mundie used the latest Microsoft products to demonstrate the exciting ways computing is extending human capabilities, and enabling us to better understand and improve our world.
UTCS Faculty, Alumnus, and Colleague Win Most Influential Paper from OOPSLA
10/30/2012 - Paper from McKinley, Berger, and Zorn has lasting influence.
Current and Past Ph.D. Students Win Awards
08/08/2012 - Two of UTCS's current and past Ph.D. students have won significant awards.
UTCS Professors and Alum Win Best Paper Award
06/15/2012 - Don Fussell, Calvin Lin, 2010 UTCS Ph.D. graduate Paul Navratil, and Hank Childs of University of California, Davis won the Best Paper Award at the 12th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization.
Alum Arvind Narayanan to be Princeton Tenure-track Assistant Professor
06/14/2012 - UTCS alum Arvind Narayanan, who completed his Ph.D. in 2009, will be starting in the fall at Princeton as a tenure-track assistant professor.
Alumni in the News: Daniel Morris Speaking at Cloud Expo New York
05/16/2012 - UTCS Alum Daniel Morris is scheduled to speak at the Cloud Expo New York about "High Performance Database Hosting in the Cloud." He will explain why databases in the cloud are a reality and how attendees can benefit by implementing them.
Alumni in the News: Robert Felps Named Clearview's Vice President and General Manager for Central Texas
05/15/2012 - UTCS alum Robert Felps has been appointed as the corporate vice president responsible for Clearview International LLC’s Central Texas sales and operations.
Alumni in the News: Eileen Boerger Named to the Software & Information Industry Association Software Division Board of Directors
05/09/2012 - UTCS alum Eileen Boerger has been elected to the Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) Software Division Board of Directors to serve a two-year term. SIIA is the principal trade association and a leading voice for the software, digital content, ed-tech and financial information industries.