2012 News

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FoCS: Qualcomm Café Naming to Recognize Gift to UTCS

12/21/2012 - Qualcomm, a long-time supporter of UTCS, steps forward to make an $80,000 commitment to a Computer Science excellence fund. In recognition of its contribution, the Board of Regents agreed to name the coffee shop in the new Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex, “The Qualcomm Café.” Read More

Physicists Take Photonic Topological Insulators to the Next Level

12/21/2012 - Topological insulators, a state of matter that was only discovered in the past decade, may enable dramatic advances in quantum computing and spintronics. Read More

Physicists Take Photonic Topological Insulators to the Next Level

12/21/2012 - AUSTIN, Texas—Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have designed a simulation that for the first time emulates key properties of electronic topological insulators. Read More

Physicists Take Photonic Topological Insulators to the Next Level

12/21/2012 - Topological insulators, a state of matter that was only discovered in the past decade, may enable dramatic advances in quantum computing and spintronics. Read More

Capital Campaign Update: The Next Chapter

12/19/2012 - In less than a month, the fences come down and UT Computer Science will be handed the keys to its new home—The Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall. [...] philanthropy’s importance has moved well beyond large capital projects like this one; it is now central to everything we do. Read More

A Reboot in Recruiting Women Into Computer Science

12/14/2012 - "When girls think of computer science, they think of the gamers and sitting in a cubicle to program," says Cassidy Lamm, a sophomore at the U. of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. "But I've found that you can do so much more with it." Read More

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. Read More

Chemist Named Inventor of the Year by UT Austin

12/07/2012 - AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin honored two researchers whose collaboration led to a company that aims to change how electronics are made. Read More

A New Curriculum for a New Marketplace

12/07/2012 - UTCS develops a new, flexible curriculum in response to an expanding field of study and explosive enrollment growth that many are referring to as a new Sputnik moment. Read More

Game Development Program

12/07/2012 - The gaming industry is one of the fastest growing intersections of entertainment, art, and technology. Austin alone produces more than $1 billion in gaming centered economic impact and houses in excess of 100 gaming studios. Arguably, a world-class game development program that can support and take advantage of the Austin game scene is both natural and overdue. Read More

FoCS: General Motors Opens Innovation Center

Friends of Computer Science - General Motors

12/07/2012 - “Information is power.” As a result, business leaders constantly seek better information to give them a competitive edge and help them manage their businesses. In a company like GM, much of that responsibility falls in the hands of its IT department. As such, GM is creating Innovation Centers to gather the brightest minds to build information solutions. Read More

From the Chair: Milestones

12/07/2012 - The Department of Computer Science has milestones in its growth that mark moments of unusual significance. We are approaching just such a milestone. [...] I am distinctly happy to report that by this time next month, our doors will be open, and UTCS will have all of its faculty, staff, and students under a single roof for the first time in the department’s history. Read More

UT, A&M Among Nation’s Best Values: Report

12/06/2012 - Can a university engaged in world-changing research truly educate undergraduate students? A new study finds that UT-Austin (and Texas A&M) is doing just that. Read More

Lorenzo Alvisi Selected for Prestigious Humboldt Research Award

12/03/2012 - Lorenzo Alvisi has been selected for a prestigious Humboldt Research Award. Read More

Mike Scott Wins 2012-13 President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award

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. Read More

Inderjit Dhillon and Three Ph.D. Students Win Best Paper Award at ICDM '12

11/27/2012 - Inderjit Dhillon and three Ph.D. students, Hsiang-Fu Yu, Cho-Jui Hsieh, and Si Si, won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'12). Their paper, "Scalable Coordinate Descent Approaches to Parallel Matrix Factorization for Recommender Systems," is available on the UTCS website at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~inderjit/public_papers/icdm-pmf.pdf. Read More

Undergrad Team Wins Student Cluster Competition at Supercomputing 2012

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Team of Computer Science Students Claim Victory at Supercomputing Challenge

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Team of Computer Science Students Claim Victory at Supercomputing Challenge

11/20/2012 - Students won the seventh annual Student Cluster Competition (SCC) this year at the Supercomputing ’12 (SC12) conference in Salt Lake City. SC12 is the seminal international conference for high-performance computing. Read More

Team of Computer Science Students Claim Victory at Supercomputing Challenge

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. Read More

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. Read More

UTCS Faculty, Alumnus, and Colleague Win Most Influential Paper from OOPSLA

10/30/2012 - Paper from McKinley, Berger, and Zorn has lasting influence. Read More

A New Computer Game ‘Bot’ Acts Just Like a Real Person

10/24/2012 - BBC News is one of many outlets to report that computer scientist Risto Miikkulainen and his team stepped away with first place at the annual BotPrize Competition for a bot that displayed behavior very similar to that of a human. Read More

UT Professor Aims to Increase Number of Women in IT, Computer Science

10/22/2012 - Lecia Barker, professor in UT’s School of Information, recently received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to increase women’s involvement in information technology. Read More

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