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UT and AT&T Researchers Win Best Paper Award at 2017 IEEE Network Protocols Conference

11/03/2017 - Professor Lili Qiu and her Ph.D. Read More

UTCS Researchers Win Best Paper Award at 2017 OOPSLA Conference

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Kristen Grauman Wins Award for Influential Computer Vision Paper

11/02/2017 - UTCS Professor Kristen Grauman received the 2017 Helmholtz Prize last week at the International Conference on Computer Vision. The Helmholtz Prize, awarded every other year, recognizes ICCV papers from the past ten years that have had a significant impact on the field of computer vision research. Read More

Austin Hosts 20th Annual MODELS Conference

10/09/2017 - Last month, researchers came together in Austin to discuss model-based software and systems engineering at this year’s 20th annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Models Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, or MODELS. Read More

Peter Stone Interviewed for Documentary about the Future of Technology

10/06/2017 - UTCS professor Peter Stone was interviewed as part of a documentary called Digital Transformation: Visions of Nations, Companies, and People, a film exploring the future of technology through interviews with entrepreneurs, futurists, scientists and more. Read More

UTCS Graduate Student Wins Distinguished Paper Award

09/06/2017 - UTCS graduate student Ashay Rane, in collaboration with colleagues from Microsoft Research, University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University, won a Distinguished Paper Award at the 26th Usenix Security Symposium last month for their paper "Vale: Verifying High-Performance Cryptographic Assembly Code." Read More

UT Competitive Programming Team Competes in ACM-ICPC World Finals

UT Competitive Programming team: Brian Richer, Supawit Chockchowwat, faculty coach Etienne Vouga, and Alex Meed.

UT Competitive Programming team: Brian Richer, Supawit Chockchowwat, faculty coach Etienne Vouga, and Alex Meed.

08/25/2017 - On Wed, 24 May 2017, the UT Competitive Programming team competed at the ACM-ICPC World Finals, the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world, at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. Read More

Robocup Victory for UT

Ph.D. student Patrick McAlpine and Professor Peter Stone accept first place awards for the RoboCup Soccer 3D Simulation League competition at RoboCup@home.

08/15/2017 - Team UT Austin Villa won 3rd place in the Robocup@home competition, in the Domestic Standard Platform League. Other US institutions participating in this league include: UC San Diego, Northeastern, and Berkeley. Three of these teams qualified to compete in Japan (UT Austin, UCSD and Northeastern). UT Austin Villa was the only US team to advance to the second stage of the competition. Read More

Welcome Stampede2!

08/14/2017 - Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) changed the world by supporting research from black holes to cures for cancer. Now, TACC introduces its most powerful supercomputer to date — Stampede2! What discoveries will it bring? Read More

Robot Birds Could Help Guide Flocks to Safety

Drawing of robot bird flying with flock of real birds

Photo Credit: Rachel Tyler | Daily Texan Staff

08/10/2017 - The computer simulations of artificial intelligence researcher Katie Genter could help robot birds lead real flocks away from dangerous situations. Read More

Quantum Computer Scientist Named Simons Foundation Investigator

08/09/2017 - Computer scientist Scott Aaronson of The University of Texas at Austin has been selected as a 2017 Simons Investigator in Theoretical Computer Science by the Simons Foundation for his work in quantum computation. Read More

Alison Norman Earns Teaching Excellence Award

08/08/2017 - Alison Norman has been selected to receive a 2017 College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. Read More

Computer Science Students Win Best Paper Award

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When Will We Have Quantum Computers?

07/12/2017 - Quantum computers might sound like science fiction. A fully functioning quantum computer could complete calculations in a matter of seconds that would take a conventional computer millions of years to process. Listen to the interview with Professor Scott Aaronson! Read More

Professor Calvin Lin and Akanksha Jain Win Cache Replacement Competition

07/03/2017 - Professor Calvin Lin and grad student Akanksha Jain won the 2nd Cache Replacement Competition, which was held recently in conjunction with the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). The goal for this competition was to compare different cache replacement algorithms for a last level cache in a common framework. Read More

Jayadev Misra and Mani Chandy Win Harry H. Goode Memorial Award

06/27/2017 - UT Computer Science's Professor Emeritus Jayadev Misra and Caltech's Mani Chandi have won the 2017 Harry H. Read More

Quantum Computing Might Be Here Sooner Than You Think

06/14/2017 - From Bloomberg Markets | by Jon Asmundsson Teams at startups, universities, government labs, and companies like IBM are racing to build computers that could potentially solve some problems that are now intractable. Read More

Kristen Grauman Named to UT Austin's Academy of Distinguished Teachers

06/01/2017 - Kristen Grauman, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been inducted into The University of Texas at Austin's respected Academy of Distinguished Teachers for 2017. The Academy, one of the first organizations of its kind in the country, was established in 1995 to honor and reward excellence in teaching by recognizing tenured faculty members who have continuously provided significant contributions to education throughout their career, especially at the undergraduate level. Read More

New Faculty Profile: Simon Peter

05/30/2017 - As an undergrad at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany, UTCS professor Simon Peter had two main hobbies: music and computer operating systems. While majoring in computer science, he also completed a minor in music. For a while, he was even interested in working on music synthesizers; his dream project is an operating system for synthesizers. Read More

UT Computer Science Hosts ACL2-2017 Workshop

05/24/2017 - The 14th International Workshop on the ACL2 Theorem Prover and Its Applications (ACL2-2017) was held May 22-23, 2017, followed by the first ACL2 Developer's Workshop held on May 24 - 25 at The University of Texas at Austin in the Gates Dell Complex. Read More

UT Austin Villa Wins at RoboCup U.S. Open

05/03/2017 - Last weekend, UT robot soccer team Austin Villa won the 2017 RoboCup U.S. Open competition hosted by the University of Miami. Four teams competed in the Standard Platform League, including the UT Austin Villa team as well as a mixed team called Team USA made up of robots from UT and the University of Pennsylvania. Austin Villa won every match with a combined score of 32-2; Team USA scored both goals against Austin Villa. Read More

Doing the Math for Better Encryption

Pile of different colored and shaped dice.

James Bowe, via Create Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.

05/02/2017 - From SIGNAL Magazine: A breakthrough formula for generating random numbers may be the key to cybersecurity. They do not necessarily match the hero stereotype, but computer scientists improving methods of generating random numbers just may save the day when it comes to cybersecurity. Read More

UT Computer Science Researchers Win TACAS Best Paper Award

04/28/2017 - UT Computer Science postdoctoral researcher Valentin Wustholz, Ph.D. Read More

Austin Named Best Cities in the World for Tech

04/25/2017 - "Austin ranks as the world's number one Tech City. IBM, Dell, and AMD all have a long-established presence here, and today low taxes, favourable real estate costs and a strong entrepreneurial culture mean the Texan capital maintains a thriving and innovative start-up scene, with access to some of the world's top talent." City population: 932,000 City GDP per capita: $62,376 Established tech firm office rent per week per sq ft: $54 Prime residential rent per week: $1,002 Read More

UT Team Wins Midwest Trading Competition

04/24/2017 - On April 8, the Undergraduate Computational Finance Team, or Texas UCF, consisting of UTCS students Rahul Gupta, Sam Barani and Vishal Gullapalli, won first place in the Midwest Trading Competition. Teams from 35 schools across the US and Canada competed at the event, hosted by the University of Chicago, to create and test trading algorithms in real market conditions. The competition includes two case studies, giving students an opportunity to test their skills against the same conditions as professional traders. Read More

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