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Professor Peter Stone has earned a 2015 College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award winner. The Teaching Excellence Award celebrates the members of CNS faculty that excel in the classroom. The Awards were established by Dean Mary Ann Rankin to increase recognition of the college's many exceptional faculty who are committed to teaching at either the undergraduate or graduate level. Read More
Thousands turned out for the "biggest open house in Texas" on March 10 for the annual Explore UT event. Explore UT is an event put on by the university every spring, that opens it's doors to anyone that would like to explore the campus inside and out. Different colleges host activities throughout the day to get future students of all ages and their parents excited about the endless oppportunities that UT has to provide. Read More
Işil Dillig, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. Read More
The vast differences between the brain’s neural circuitry and a computer’s silicon circuitry might suggest that they have nothing in common. In fact, as Dana Ballard argues in this book, computational tools are essential for understanding brain function. Ballard shows that the hierarchical organization of the brain has many parallels with the hierarchical organization of computing; as in silicon computing, the complexities of brain computation can be dramatically simplified when its computation is factored into different levels of abstraction. Read More
A faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin who works to improve the security and reliability of computer software systems has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship for 2015. Işil Dillig is an assistant professor in the department of computer science who develops tools and novel techniques that enable software systems to automatically detect errors and vulnerabilities in programming. She will receive $50,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to further her research.Read More
"At the University of Texas, a department focused on artificial intelligence will blow your mind..." Read More
UTCS Professor Inderjit Dhillon has been named a 2014 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) "for contributions to large-scale data analysis, machine learning and computational mathematics." Read More
Cellular devices are an agent for convenience for every day life. Mobile applications on these devices play a large part in this virtual accessibility. Read More
The 2015 Friends of Computer Science (FoCS) Career Night was held on February 4 in the Carpenter-Winkel Centennial Room of the DKR Memorial Stadium. Read More
From robots to drones to various research, the Association of the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence embraces the artificial intelligence community that Austin has to offer. Read More