Robot Sport: Heavy Hitters
07/21/2012 - Sporting robots are still slow. But their inventors are making rapid strides
Faculty
Pradeep Ravikumar Awarded MURI Grant
07/10/2012 - Assistant Professor Pradeep Ravikumar is part of a team of researchers, from the University of Texas at Austin, Boston University, and Harvard University, that have been selected as a recipient of one of 23 awards this year from the Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI).
Putting the Auto in Automobile
07/05/2012 - Peter Stone talks about autonomous vehicles and intersections with Michael Breen of American Mathematical Society on this podcast episode of Mathematical Moments.
UT robots win soccer championship in Mexico City
06/26/2012 - 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.
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.
William Cook Wins Best Paper Award at ECOOP
06/14/2012 - Associate Professor William Cook won the Best Paper award at the 2012 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP).
Lorenzo Alvisi Appointed Visiting Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
06/11/2012 - Professor Lorenzo Alvisi has been appointed Visiting Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Univ. of Texas group speeds up drug discovery with supercomputers
05/30/2012 - FierceBiotechIT | By Ryan McBride For years, drug researchers have tapped computers to take serendipity out of the discovery equation, and a group from the University of Texas at Austin has advanced computational drug discovery further with updated image-reconstruction and modeling techniques, according to the university.
Professor Peter Stone Elected AAAI Fellow
05/23/2012 - 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.