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Fifty Years after Sci-Fi’s “2001,” Rethinking Our Relationship with AI

04/03/2018 - UT College of Natural Sciences News | Esther R Robards-Forbes Read More

Ethical Foundations Class Introduces Ethical Thinking to Computer Science Students

04/01/2018 - Computers touch every part of our daily lives, from work to shopping to social media, and behind computer programs are human computer scientists making decisions. How do we make sure that these decisions don’t harm others? Read More

Four UTCS Professors Win NSF CAREER Award

Vijay Chidambaram, Scott Niekum, Simon Peter, and Eric Price

03/30/2018 - Four UTCS professors—Vijay Chidambaram, Scott Niekum, Simon Peter, and Eric Price —have won the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development award for 2018. Read More

Students Blend Science, Art and Communication to Design Games and Apps

Students showcase their games during Digital Demo Day. Photo by Jennifer Reel.

Students showcase their games during Digital Demo Day. Photo by Jennifer Reel.

03/26/2018 - The UT Game and Mobile Media Applications (GAMMA) program was established six years ago upon a simple principle: humans like to play. GAMMA, a collaboration between the College of Natural Sciences, the College of Fine Arts and the Moody College of Communications, is an undergraduate certificate program that prepares students for careers in designing video games and mobile apps. As an interdisciplinary initiative that blends expertise from all three colleges, the certificate program gives students opportunities to apply both computing and creativity toward the production of apps and games that are useful and entertaining. Read More

UT Computer Science Graduate Program Among Top Ten in the U.S.

03/21/2018 - According to U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Graduate Schools report, UT’s computer science graduate program is among the top 10 best graduate programs for computer science in the country, as well as among the top 5 among public schools and the best in Texas. Read More

Two Ph.D. Students Awarded IBM Fellowships

03/20/2018 - Two computer science Ph.D. students, Rishab Goyal and Josiah Hanna, were selected for the highly-competitive 2018 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program. Read More

UT Computer Science Adding Ethics Courses to Curriculum

03/06/2018 - AUSTIN (KXAN) — At the University of Texas at Austin, computer science students are being asked to go beyond coding and engineering. Their department wants them to graduate with an understanding of ethics as well. Read More

Three UTCS Faculty Receive Google Research Awards

02/22/2018 - Three UTCS professors won a 2017 Google Faculty Research award, which is awarded to academic researchers in order to fund research proposals. Vijay Chidambaram received an award for systems research, Kristen Grauman received an award for machine perception research, and Işil Dillig received an award for security research. Read More

Women in Computer Science Hosts "Magical" All-Women Hackathon

Women in Computer Science student organization members

02/22/2018 - On Saturday, Women in Computer Science hosted WiCS Hacks, an all-women 12-hour hackathon sponsored by HomeAway, IBM and Bloomberg. This year, the theme of the hackathon was magic and featured categories such as educational technology, community impact, IBM Watson and “magical hacks.” Eighty people attended the event, and the projects were judged by faculty members. Read More

Vijay Chadambaram and Eric Lee Win Best Paper Prize at FAST 2018

02/16/2018 - UTCS Professor Vijay Chidambaram and undergraduate researcher Eric Lee co-authored a paper titled "Protocol-aware Recovery for Consensus-based Storage'' which won the best paper prize at the 2018 USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST). Read More

Huth and Peter Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships

Alex Huth (left) and Simon Peter (right)

Alex Huth (left) and Simon Peter (right)

02/16/2018 - Professors Alex Huth and Simon Peter have been awarded Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships for 2018. Read More

Two New Professors Join UTCS Faculty

Hovav Shacham (left) and Qiang Liu (right)

Hovav Shacham (left) and Qiang Liu (right)

02/15/2018 - We are delighted to welcome two new faculty to UT Computer Science in 2018. Read More

Jayadev Misra Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Jayadev Misra teaching class in front of white board and gesturing with his hand.

02/08/2018 - Jayadev Misra, Schlumberger Centennial Chair Emeritus in Computer Science and University Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, has been elected to join the National Academy of Engineering for his research in software verification of concurrent systems. Read More

UT Computer Science Founding Member and Professor Emeritus Passes Away

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

Linear Algebra - Foundations To Frontiers Kicks off Its Seventh Run

01/22/2018 - On January 23, 2018, UTCS faculty (and spouses) Robert van de Geijn and Maggie Myers will kick off the seventh run of their 16 week MOOCs (Massively Open Online Course) on linear algebra from a computer science perspective called Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers (LAFF). Read More

Calvin Lin Turing Scholar Endowment Provides Funding for Turing Scholars Program

01/03/2018 - The Turing Scholars program is an academic honors program within UTCS directed by professor Calvin Lin, who established the program in 2006. Turing Scholars consists of about 200 UTCS students and accepts about 50 freshmen per year, creating a tight-knit community focused on research and academic challenges. The program culminates in an honors thesis during the students' senior year. Read More

Ashlie Martinez Earns Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

12/19/2017 - Undergraduate student Ashlie Martinez has been selected as an awardee of the 2018 Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Ashlie is a senior in the Turing Scholars Honors program in UT Computer Science. Read More

Faculty and Students from Across Campus Collaborate in Robotics Consortium

12/07/2017 - UT recently launched the Robotics Consortium, a group that brings together researchers from industry and across campus to collaborate on robotics research. Read More

Systems Research Consortium Brings Together Industry and Academic Research Efforts

12/04/2017 - Starting this fall, UT and industry will work together to further innovation in the field of computer systems research through a program called the Systems Research Consortium, launched by the UT Department of Computer Science. Read More

Peter Stone Elected IEEE Fellow

11/28/2017 - Professor Peter Stone has been named a 2018 IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for his contributions to reinforcement learning, multiagent systems and robotics. Each year, IEEE, or the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, chooses from among nominated IEEE members from around the world for the distinction of Fellow Grade. Out of IEEE’s over 423,000 members, less than 10,000 are fellows. Read More

Austin Team Wins First Place in Video Game Hackathon

11/16/2017 - A team of game developers from Austin won first place in the Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Technology and Society’s first ever game jam, a competitive hackathon in which participants create video games. The theme of the game jam, “Being an Ally,” focused on developing video games that explore speaking out against hate and bias in society. The hackathon included teams of game developers from all across the U.S. Read More

Microsoft CEO Speaks to UT Austin Students About the Future of Technology

11/14/2017 - AUSTIN (KXAN) — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the key to running a successful technology company is to constantly reinvent ideas. Read More

UT Competitive Programming Team Wins ACM-ICPC South Central USA Regional Competition

Left to right: Daniel Talamas (senior), Arnav Sastry (senior), Ethan Arnold (junior), Vallath Nandakumar (lecturer, ECE), Etienne Vouga (assistant professor, CS), Glenn Downing (lecturer, CS), and Fares Fraij (lecturer, CS).

11/14/2017 - On Sat, 4 Nov 2017, the UT Competitive Programming team won the ACM-ICPC South Central USA Regional Competition at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Read More