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First Bytes 2012

First Bytes Summer Camp
06/28/2012 - The tenth annual First Bytes Summer Camp, sponsored by UTCS, kicked off on June 17 on the university campus. The free, weeklong camp showcases the potential of a rewarding career in technology to selected Texas high school girls. Campers work together on programming language labs and logic games, see surgical robots in action, meet professional computer scientists, get career mentoring, play games, enjoy campus life and get a taste of what it’s like to have a fascinating, well-paying job. Read More

University of Texas at Austin Team Wins Robot Soccer World Championships in Two Divisions

UT Austin Villa Standard Platform League RoboCup World Champion Team

UT Austin Villa Standard Platform League RoboCup World Champion Team

06/27/2012 - AUSTIN, Texas — UT Austin Villa, a team of computer science students led by professor Peter Stone, won two 2012 Robot Soccer World Cup division championships during RoboCup 2012 last week in Mexico City. The annual tournament, founded in 1997 to foster innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics research, is often touted as the world’s biggest robotics and artificial intelligence event. Read More

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. Read More

The Department of Computer Science Tweaks Curriculum to Be More Flexible

The Department of Computer Science Tweaks Curriculum
06/24/2012 - The Department of Computer Science will decrease the number of required classes needed to obtain a degree from the department, a move some faculty hope will allow students to specialize in their interests and experience more while attending school. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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). Read More

Computer Science Camp is Geared to Girls

06/13/2012 - Event: First Bytes, An Innovative Summer Program in Computer Science to Promote Interest in Technology in Teenage Girls When: June 17–22, various times Where: Various locations on The University of Texas at Austin campus (see below for details) and across Austin Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

2012 UTCS Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony

05/21/2012 - UTCS honored new Ph.D. graduates at its annual hooding ceremony. Each new graduate received a short testimonial from his or her graduate research advisor. The new doctors were then hooded by UTCS Professor Peter Stone. Afterwards, a reception was held for graduates, faculty, friends and family. Read More

5 Ways Self-Driving Cars Will Make You Love Commuting

05/17/2012 - Ordinary Americans can't buy intelligent, self-driving cars just yet, but the technology could someday revolutionize one of the nation's most common road rituals—the morning and evening commutes that bookend the workday for millions of people. Read More

Most wanted: Students with technical degrees

05/16/2012 - This year’s graduates in computer science, engineering and accounting are in high demand in the strongest job market for graduates since 2008, says the National Association of Colleges and Employers. NACE shows a 10.2 percent increase in hiring over 2011. - Michael Okoniewsk/Bloomberg News Read More

Molecular Matchmaking for Drug Discovery

05/16/2012 - From image processing, to 3D modeling, to search algorithms, computer and computational science help improve the drug discovery pipeline Read More

Alumni in the News: Daniel Morris Speaking at Cloud Expo New York

05/16/2012 - UTCS Alum Daniel Morris is scheduled to speak at the Cloud Expo New York about "High Performance Database Hosting in the Cloud." He will explain why databases in the cloud are a reality and how attendees can benefit by implementing them. Read More

Alumni in the News: Robert Felps Named Clearview's Vice President and General Manager for Central Texas

05/15/2012 - UTCS alum Robert Felps has been appointed as the corporate vice president responsible for Clearview International LLC’s Central Texas sales and operations. Read More

Alumni in the News: Eileen Boerger Named to the Software & Information Industry Association Software Division Board of Directors

05/09/2012 - UTCS alum Eileen Boerger has been elected to the Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) Software Division Board of Directors to serve a two-year term. SIIA is the principal trade association and a leading voice for the software, digital content, ed-tech and financial information industries. Read More

Good Bytes and Good Luck!

05/07/2012 - The Department of Computer Science congratulates its graduating students of 2012. We wished them “Good Bytes and Good Luck” with a graduation celebration catered by Austin’s own Amy’s Ice Cream. Read More

2012 Undergraduate Research Forum

05/04/2012 - Every spring, the College of Natural Sciences celebrates its student-scientists at the Undergraduate Research Forum, a one-day event. More than 200 students present posters describing their research. The best and most innovative posters and presentations are recognized with awards judged and sponsored by the university, faculty, alumni, and industry. Read More

Three UTCS Students Named 2012 Dean's Honored Graduate

04/30/2012 - UTCS is proud to announce that three of our students have been named Dean's Honored Graduate, an honor that is being given to only 20 of CNS's graduating students this year. Read More

Friends of Computer Science Partner Research

Friends of Computer Science
04/30/2012 - The Friends of Computer Science (FoCS) program at UTCS is fortunate to count many companies with world-class research programs as partners. FoCS partners Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sandia National Laboratories and Yahoo! are all on the forefront of technological innovation. Read More

Empowering Leadership Alliance Students Get Into Undergraduate Research

The Empowering Leadership Alliance
04/30/2012 - The Empowering Leadership Alliance is a computer science student organization aimed at helping minorities gain a sense of what opportunities are available in various fields in technology. Read More

Capital Campaign Update: Taking Research to the Next Level

Capital Campaign Update: Taking Research to the Next Level
04/30/2012 - The Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall is under way with a projected completion date of winter 2012! The Gates Complex will be the first step in the department's plan to transform computing education and research in Texas. Read More

Research Corner: Computational Drug Discovery

Research Corner: Computational Drug Discovery
04/30/2012 - Discoveries in bioinformatics provide new therapeutic interventions to disease by replacing expensive, time-consuming physical experiments with an automated computational search. Public databases now contain experimentally determined sequence and structural information for hundreds of thousands of proteins Read More

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