09/24/2024 - The 2024-2025 rankings tout undergraduate computer science at The University of Texas at Austin as among the ten best nationally.Read More
09/20/2024 - On Thu, Sep 19, 2024, the UT Programming Team competed at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2023-24 48th World Finals hosted by the Kazakhstan Competitive Programming Federation in Astana, Kazakhstan.Read More
09/18/2024 - The University of Texas at Austin has been selected to lead the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins, a new $20 million research initiative focused on using AI to explore the universe’s biggest mysteries, from dark matter to the origins of life. Greg Durrett, Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT, is a co-investigator on this groundbreaking project, further cementing UT’s leadership in AI research.Read Article
09/12/2024 - With AI now being easily accessible to the public, should AI be regulated? If so, how? Marc Airhart sits down with lawyer and UT Law lecturer Matthew Murrell to talk about the risks unregulated AI pose, ChatGPT training data, and if regulation could stifle innovation and competition. Read Article
09/12/2024 - 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
09/12/2024 - 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
09/05/2024 - 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
08/29/2024 - 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
08/21/2024 - 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
