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Linear Algebra - Foundations To Frontiers Kicks off Its Fifth Run

12/12/2016 - On January 25, 2017, UTCS faculty (and spouses) Robert van de Geijn and Maggie Myers will kick off the fifth 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) Robert and Maggie have enhanced the course by working with MathWorks to enable participants to use Matlab freely during the course. Read More

New Faculty Profile: Qixing Huang

12/02/2016 - The University of Texas at Austin has committed resources to expanding faculty and research strength in the increasingly important field of machine perception. Machine perception, a broad concept that actually incorporates multiple disciplines such as natural language processing and computer vision and underlying machine learning technologies, is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on how computer systems intake information, particular in ways that emulate human behavior. Read More

Vijay Chidambaram Wins Award for Doctoral Dissertation

11/10/2016 - UTCS professor Vijay Chidambaram won this year’s Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award for his research in operating systems and file storage. The award is for a dissertation from the last two years that has had an impact in the field of software systems research. He won the award for his doctoral dissertation about decoupling ordering from durability in file systems from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2015. Read More

UT Programming Teams Sweep Regional Competition

UT Programming Club students at ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

11/02/2016 - Competitive programming teams from the UT Programming Club swept the first four places in the South Central USA regional competition of this year’s Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest on Saturday, Oct. 29. They competed against a total of 67 teams from 27 schools and 3 states. Read More

UT Austin Ranked #5 Best Research University for Computer Science Globally

10/26/2016 - U.S. News & World ranked the University of Texas at Austin the 5th best university in the world for computer science out of 210 research universities, one spot higher than UT’s 6th ranking last year. Overall, the university ranked 30th globally. Read More

New Faculty Profile: Chris Rossbach

UT Computer Science Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellowship #6 In Computer Sciences Chris Rossbach.

10/17/2016 - Rossbach joined UTCS this fall as an assistant professor. He currently studies operating systems and how to reorganize systems to work better. He solves problems with these systems by looking at how all of the parts fit together. Read More

Calvin Lin Receives Supplemental Grant to Promote CS Learning in High School

10/06/2016 - As a part of the Computer Science for All initiative, the National Science Foundation is supplementing UTCS professor Calvin Lin’s grant to expand his high school Computer Science Principles course. The goal of Lin’s project is to train teachers to offer the course, UTeach CS, to high school students and encourage interest in computer science learning. Read More

UTCS Turns 50 This Fall

09/29/2016 - This fall marks the 50-year anniversary of when the Department of Computer Science officially graduated its first students on the Forty Acres in 1966. Since then, UTCS has been the home of many award-winning faculty and the source of many groundbreaking technological advances in the world of computer science. To celebrate this milestone, on October 27-29, the department is hosting a weekend full of activities with something for everyone in the UTCS community to enjoy. Read More

Don Batory Wins Test of Time Award for Research on Software Product Lines

09/27/2016 - UTCS professor Don Batory won the Test of Time Award, a one-time award from the Software Product Lines Conference given to a paper that has had the most significant and long-lasting influence on software product line, or SPL, research during the past 20 years. He won the award for his paper on SPLs, “Feature Models, Grammars, and Propositional Formulas,” which was published in 2005. Read More

Peter Stone Interviewed About Future of Self-Driving Cars

09/22/2016 - By David Holley, Xconomy Read More

Report Finds Austin has a High Demand for Cybersecurity Professionals

09/22/2016 - By Kayla Meyertons, The Daily Texan Austin was ranked in the top 12 markets nationwide with the highest demand for cybersecurity talent, according to a new report from Randstad Technologies, a leading U.S. technology talent and solutions provider. Read More

New Faculty 2016-17

09/19/2016 - 2016-17 marks the beginning of another outstanding year for UT Computer Science, with the addition of six new faculty in the fields of quantum computing, computer vision, natural language processing, and theory. This builds upon the very successful 2015-16 academic year, when UT Computer Science recruited four new assistant professors in systems and robotics, ensuring a vibrant future for computer science education and research at The University of Texas at Austin. Read More

UTCS Gets Involved with White House Initiative #CSForAll Through Code-Teaching Program

09/13/2016 - This afternoon, the White House will hold its Computer Science for All Summit, part of an initiative announced earlier this year to promote computer science learning for American students. The initiative is intended to include more students in computer science, including underrepresented groups of students, especially since job opportunities in the CS field are growing, with 51 percent of all STEM jobs are projected to be in a CS-related field by 2018. Read More

CS professor Chandra Bajaj honored with distinguished alumni award

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Robert van de Geijn Awarded 2016 Peter O’Donnell Distinguished Researcher Award

09/02/2016 - CS professor and Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences member Robert van de Geijn has been recognized for his research into linear algebra library development with the 2016 Peter O’Donnell Distinguished Researcher Award. Read More

CS Professor Calvin Lin Shares Thoughts About Inspiring Students

09/02/2016 - As part of the College of Natural Sciences’ Discovery Education Week, on Thursday UT's College of Natural Science will celebrate award-winning science educators through Teaching Discovery Day. Read More

Experts Forecast the Changes Artificial Intelligence Could Bring by 2030

09/01/2016 - Original article: CNS News | By Marc Airhart Read More

Q&A with Peter Stone: Where is Artificial Intelligence Headed?

09/01/2016 - Source: CNS News | By Marc Airhart Read More

UT Computer Science Expanding Machine Perception Program

07/20/2016 - TheBestSchools.org has ranked The University of Texas at Austin's linguistics and computer science departments the 14th best computational linguistics graduate programs in the U.S. Read More

UT Austin Villa Wins at 2016 World RoboCup

07/07/2016 - The UT Austin Villa robot soccer team, led by University of Texas at Austin computer science professor Peter Stone, returned from the 2016 RoboCup competition in Leipzig, Germany as the world champions in the 3D Simulation league and with an impressive second-place win in the Standard Platform League (SPL). Read More

2016 UTCS Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony

06/29/2016 - UTCS honored new Ph.D. graduates at its annual hooding ceremony on Friday, May 20. Each new graduate received a short testimonial from his or her graduate research advisor. The new doctors were then hooded by UTCS Chair Bruce Porter. Afterwards, a reception was held for graduates, faculty, friends and family. Click the button below to view high resolution copies of the photo gallery images on this page. We invite you to also upload pictures you have from the event. View the 2016 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony Video! Read More

Freetail Hackers at Battle of the Hacks

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Chandrajit Bajaj Awarded Honorific Title of Solid Modeling Pioneer

06/21/2016 - The Solid Modeling Association (SMA) has awarded Chandrajit Bajaj the honorific title of Solid Modeling Pioneer at the SPM'2016 symposium in Berlin. Read More

Here's What Research Did for Me, Student Stories

06/17/2016 - As the College of Natural Sciences' Freshman Research Initiative celebrates its 10th anniversary, we speak to students and scientists about how doing research as freshmen and sophomores impacted them. Opening Doors Read More

Why is CGI in the Movies Still So Hard?

06/17/2016 - College of Natural Sciences | Point of Discovery As the summer movie season kicks into high gear, we talk with a scientist about some of the challenges in simulating the way everyday objects behave on the big screen through computer generated imagery (CGI). Etienne Vouga's computer simulations have helped bring to life a wizard's hair in The Hobbit and clothing in Tangled. Read More

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