12/03/2012 -
President Powers recently announced Michael Scott as a recipient of the 2012-13 President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award. This award recognizes Mike's consistent levels of excellence in teaching undergraduates.
The award was established in the fall of 1980 to recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching at UT Austin.
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10/30/2012 -
Kathryn S. McKinley, UTCS professor, Emery Berger, UTCS 2002 Ph.D. graduate, and Benjamin Zorn, Microsoft researcher were recently awarded the Most Influential Paper from OOPSLA at the 2012 SPLASH Conference for "Reconsidering custom memory allocation."
The award is given annually to the author(s) of a paper presented 10 years earlier and judged to be the most influential over the preceding decade.
Berger is now an Associate Professor at UMass-Amherst.
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09/26/2012 -
AUSTIN, Texas — An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed against.
The competition was sponsored by 2K Games and was set inside the virtual world of “Unreal Tournament 2004,” a first-person shooter video game. The winners were announced this month at the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games.
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09/10/2012 -
Assistant Professor Michael Walfish was selected as a 2012 Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program award recipient. This award will fund Walfish's work on systems that allow people to use computer resources without having to trust that those resources operate correctly.
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08/21/2012 -
Assistant Professor Kristen Grauman has earned a Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.
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08/21/2012 -
UT News | University of Texas at Austin Ranked No. 35 Among World Universities
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08/14/2012 -
The UT^2 game bot, created by Jacob Schrum, Igor Karpov, and Professor Risto Miikkulainen, won the Humanlike Bot Competition at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012).
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08/08/2012 -
Two of UTCS's current and past Ph.D. students have won significant awards.
Siavash Mirarab, who works with Tandy Warnow on large scale phylogenetics, received a Predoctoral Fellowship, which provides three years of support, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Matt Taylor, who completed his Ph.D. in machine learning with Peter Stone in 2008, won an NSF CAREER Award to support his research on A Multiagent Teacher/Student Framework for Sequential Decision Making Tasks. Matt is currently an Assistant Professor at Lafayette College.
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08/01/2012 -
AUSTIN, Texas — Computer scientist Brent Waters was honored at the White House this week with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government for science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
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