11/14/2011 -
Assistant Professor Brent Waters has won a Packard Fellowship. Only sixteen Packard Fellowships were awarded this year across all of science and engineering.
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11/11/2011 -
UTCS Assistant Professor Kristen Grauman and Devi Parikh of the Toyota Technological Institute Chicago (TTIC), and a former visiting postdoc, received the Marr Prize at ICCV for their paper "Relative Attributes" that was presented at the13th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in 2011.
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10/27/2011 -
On Wednesday, October 26, 2011, the University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science held the annual Visions of Computing Lecture, a lecture series honoring UTCS faculty accomplishments. Through this lecture series, faculty presented insights into computer science research and education to the public and the computing community. Watch the 2011 Visions of Computing Lecture!
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10/13/2011 -
On Wednesday, October 26, 2011, the University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science will hold the annual Visions of Computing Lecture, a lecture series honoring UTCS faculty accomplishments. Through this lecture series, faculty present insights into computer science research and education to the public and the computing community. This year's lecture will take place from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. in the Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302.
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09/21/2011 -
Two UTCS teams made it to the final round of Yahoo!'s Open Hack All Stars event in New York City. The All Stars event was made up of winning teams from Yahoo! Open Hack and HackU events from around the world. A total of 40 hackers competed in this first ever event. Teams were competing for a $10,000 prize and the opportunity to present their hack to VCs, CEOs, and other Yahoo! senior executives and partners.
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09/21/2011 -
Computer science professor Peter Stone has been named a 2011 Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) recipient and has been granted a $10,000 gift for his proposal titled “Testing a Liquidity Sensitive Market Maker for a Prediction Market on the UT Austin CS Building Opening.”
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09/12/2011 -
UTCS is pleased to announce that Amin Shali, who works with Professor William Cook, has won the Best Student Paper Award from OOPSLA for their paper on "Hybrid Partial Evaluation" and that graduate student Jacob Schrum and Professor Risto Miikkulainen have won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games for their paper on "Evolving Multimodal Networks for Multitask Games".
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09/09/2011 -
Faculty at the The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science (UTCS) are at the forefront of the digital revolution. Congratulations to the following faculty on their recent achievements.
Chandra Bajaj
Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty award
Mike Dahlin
CNS Teaching Excellence Award
Inderjit Dhillon
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08/10/2011 -
For his work on the foundations of a new way of encrypting data, Brent Waters from the University of Texas in Austin has been elected as one of this year's...
Encrypting Data in the Cloud Brings Win for Texas | By Nicolas Zeitler | Aug 10, 2011 3:20 PM
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08/05/2011 -
Microsoft Research has selected Assistant Professor Brent Waters as one of eight Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows of 2011.
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