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UT professor Shravan Narayan, in collaboration with researchers from UC San Diego, Purdue, Google, Intel, Fastly, and Rivos, were finalists for the Intel Hardware Security Academic Award.Their publication, titled Going Beyond the Limits of SFI: Flexible and Secure Hardware-Assisted In-Process Isolation with HFI, presents HFI, a new extension for in-process isolation to current processors. Read More
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Artificial intelligence is very loosely regulated in the U.S. What kinds of laws would help make AI safer and more useful for everyone? Read Article
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The University of Texas at Austin has introduced what is believed to be the first undergraduate robotics program in the country that allows high school students to apply directly as part of their freshman admissions application. The honors program will integrate students as soon as they arrive on campus into the immersive and interdisciplinary curriculum, which includes hands-on research, engineering and computer science coursework, and participation in UT’s top-ranked Texas Robotics’ events and programs. Read Article
Vista, a new AI-centric system at TACC, is in full production for the open science community. Credit: Texas Advanced Computing Center
NSF-funded system expands TACC’s capacity for AI with Arm-based NVIDIA technology Read Article
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How does AI make big decisions that can change people's lives? From getting hired for a job to getting parole as an offender, can AI make better decisions than humans? Marc Airhart talks to journalism and RTF professor Craig Watkins about decision-making within AI and how to ensure systems are fair and ethical. Read Article
Professor Greg Durrett teaches a course designed for educators that explains the ins and outs of large language models like Chat GPT.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Students heading back to school this semester are entering the classroom with a new tool that experts say could soon be as common as a calculator. “It’s a very useful tool, and students are going to have to know how to use that tool when they should use that tool when they shouldn’t use the tool,” said Greg Durrett, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas in Austin. Read Article
Through all the claims of how AI can help us become healthier, which ones are true and which ones are false? Marc Airhart talks to associate rhetoric professor Scott Graham about the myths of AI and healthcare and potential pitfalls to bringing AI into the field of healthcare. Read Article
NAO Humanoid robots playing soccer in the Intelligent Robotics lab in the UT Computer Science Gates Dell Complex.
Are AI robots the future of sports? These UT students think soAustin (KXAN) — A team of UT students, led by Professor Peter Stone, recently triumphed at the RoboCup Home competition in the Netherlands, where their AI-powered robots autonomously played soccer. The students believe their research is paving the way for a future where robots can compete against humans in sports, revolutionizing the field of AI robotics. Read Article
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UT Computer Science is proud to announce that Professors Brent Waters and Hovav Shacham have both been honored with the prestigious Test-of-Time Award by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). Read More
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From data analysis, code writing, summarizing scientific literature and even designing experiments, researchers across disciplines are using AI tools to aid in their research.Adam Klivans, a professor of computer science and Alex Dimakis, a computer and electrical engineering professor, co-direct the Machine Learning Lab and the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning. Together with Marc Airhart and Casey Boyle discuss how artificial intelligence plays an increasingly important role in the latest scientific discoveries. Read Article