12/03/2021 - From a young age, Dr. John gravitated towards math and logical problem-solving. Although most of her family were in the humanities, they nurtured her unique interests in her early years. The definite logic and reasoning of mathematical concepts struck a chord with her that encouraged her curiosity in the field. As she pursued this curiosity as an undergrad at the Indian Institute of Science, it became clear to her that she had found her purpose. Dr. John had always planned on moving to the US for her Ph.D. and when she visited Austin she immediately knew that this was the place for her. Read more
02/06/2018 - We are deeply saddened by the loss of Professor Emeritus and UT Computer Science founding member James C. Browne, who passed away on Friday, January 19 at age 83. In addition to teaching computer science, Browne was one of the first faculty members of the Department of Computer Science, which was founded in 1966, and also served as the department’s chairman for several years. Read more
11/09/2009 - Watch the 2009 Visions Lecture! Quicktime required to view the movie. Download the free QuickTime player. Slides: (PDF) Read more
07/30/2004 - James C. Browne won the University Co-op Career Research Excellence Award for maintaining a superior research program in such fields as performance measurement and analysis, operating systems, and software engineering. Inderjit Dhillon, Arindam Banerjee (ECE), Srujana Merugu (ECE), and Joydeep Ghosh (ECE) received the Best Algorithms Paper for the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining for for their paper entitled "Clustering with Bregman Divergences" Read more
05/07/2004 - Friday, May 7, 2004 Lectures: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302Reception: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Faculty Lounge, ACES 6.102 The Department of Computer Sciences presents the Visions of Computer Sciences Research Lectures featuring Dr. Jim Browne and Dr. Simon Lam. The Visions Lectures honor both professors for recent awards. Dr. Jim Browne won the University Cooperative Society's Career Research Excellence Award, given to honorees who have maintained an excellent program over many years. Read more
01/22/2000 - On January 22, 2000, the department honored Professor James C. Browne with a symposium on the event of his 65th birthday. He is known as an energetic teacher and researcher who has published over 225 papers spanning many topics in Computer Science and Physics. He has directly supervised 125 graduate students - 62 of whom have completed doctoral degrees under his supervision and another 63 who have completed masters degrees. Brown holds the Regents Chair in Computer Sciences and appointments as Professor of Physics and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Read more
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