Marijn Heule Uses Texas' Stampede Supercomputer to Crack 200-Terabyte Math Proof

05/31/2016 - Three computer scientists have announced the largest-ever mathematics proof: a file that comes in at a whopping 200 terabytes1, roughly equivalent to all the digitized text held by the US Library of Congress. The researchers have created a 68-gigabyte compressed version of their solution — which would allow anyone with about 30,000 hours of spare processor time to download, reconstruct and verify it — but a human could never hope to read through it. Read More

New Method of Producing Random Numbers Could Improve Cybersecurity

05/16/2016 - With an advance that one cryptography expert called a "masterpiece," University of Texas at Austin computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers, a breakthrough that could be used to encrypt data, make electronic voting more secure, conduct statistically significant polls and more accurately simulate complex systems such as Earth's climate. Read More

Siavash Mirarab Earns 2015 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

05/11/2016 - UT Computer Science graduate student Siavash Mirarab was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2015 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Mirarab’s dissertation, Novel Scalable Approaches for Multiple Sequence Alignment and Phylogenomic Read More

UT Computer Science Student Leads Nonprofit Teaching Underserved Children How to Code

05/04/2016 - Code Orange is a student-led nonprofit. Its goal is to teach young children from underserved communities in Austin not only how to code, but also how to use a variety of technologies. Current leader Moiz Rizvi, a computer science junior, and several of his peers founded Code Orange last September. Read More

Lorenzo joins academy of distinguished teachers

04/28/2016 - Lorenzo Alvisi has been selected as one of just seven new members of The University of Texas at Austin's Academy of Distinguished Teachers for his sustained and significant contributions to education. Lorenzo will be part of a central core of teachers who serve as a resource and aim to be an inspiration for other teachers, and promote a sense of Read More

Brent Waters Earns the Association of Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award

04/27/2016 - 2015 Recipients Made Contributions in Areas Including Artificial Intelligence, Software Systems and Encryption Read More

Teens ‘Byte’ into Computer Science

04/19/2016 - By Jamey Smith When it comes to summer camp, some teenagers may be ready to trade the traditional canoes and archery for something with a bit more flash. Luckily, there’s a camp for nearly every interest these days. And as always, UT is in the vanguard. Read More

David Zuckerman's award from the Simons Foundation

04/15/2016 - David Zuckerman has been selected as a Simons Investigator in Theoretical Computer Science. David's research focuses primarily on pseudorandomness and the role of randomness in computing. He is best known for his work on randomness extractors and their applications. His other research interests include coding theory, distributed computing, cryptography, inapproximability, and other areas of complexity theory. Read More

UTCS Wins Award for Work with Women

04/14/2016 - The University of Texas Department of Computer Science (UTCS) has been selected as one of two NCWIT Second Place NEXT Award winners. The department has won this accolade for its achievements in recruiting and retaining women into UTCS and for it’s successful allocation of resources towards building a department-wide culture of support and community for women.   Read More

Chandrajit Bajaj Selected as SIAM Fellow

04/01/2016 - Chandrajit Bajaj has been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) "for fundamental contributions to applied mathematics algorithms in geometric modeling, imaging science, bioinformatics, and data visualization." SIAM Fellows are designated each year to recognize members of the community for their distinguished contributions to the disciplines of applied mathematics, computational Read More

Van de Geijn Directing Science of High Performance Computing

03/21/2016 - In addition to his role as a professor, UT Computer Science’s Robert van de Geijn is the Director of the ICES’ Science of High-Performance Computing (SHPC) Group. Read More

A.I. Expert Weighs in on Historic Computer vs. Human Contest

03/09/2016 - AlphaGo, a program that plays what many consider the most difficult of board games, Go, has just won the first of five matches against the world's top human player. The series is scheduled to continue through March 12. Developed by Google's DeepMind subsidiary, AlphaGo has already beaten the European Go champion. A few days before the latest competition, we asked Risto Miikkulainen, an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, for his thoughts on this historic contest. Read More

Scott Aaronson and Dana Moshkovitz to join UT Austin Department of Computer Science Faculty

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UTCS Alumnus Lends Her Skills to ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’

02/16/2016 - Movie CGI artist Megha Davalath has been obsessed with pandas since she was a child in San Antonio, collecting everything from stuffed animals to trashcans to wind chimes in celebration of her favorite cuddly creature. So, it must have been kismet that her first motion picture credit for DreamWorks Animation is “Kung Fu Panda 3,” which boasts an all-star cast including Jack Black, Angelina Jolie and Bryan Cranston. It opens in theaters Friday. Read More

Peter Stone Earns Autonomous Agents Research Award

02/16/2016 - Professor Peter Stone has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. Stone's work is exceptional in both its breadth and depth in multiagent systems. Some of his most influential work has been in reinforcement learning and multiagent learning as applied to robot soccer, autonomous traffic management, and trading agents. Read More

Calvin Lin Wins 2015-16 President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award

01/05/2016 - President Fenves recently announced Calvin Lin as a recipient of the 2015-16 President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award. This award, established in the fall of 1980, recognizes the consistent level of excellence that Calvin has achieved in teaching undergraduates within the Department of Computer Science. Read More

In UT Computer Science Class, Students Earn Credit Hours by Building Startups

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Is Zoe Wheeler a Superhuman?

01/04/2016 - UT Computer Science graduate student Zoe Wheeler competes for the title of Superhuman. Read More

UT Austin Computer Science Student Team Receives SparkCognition AI Challenge Award

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Computer Science Undergrad Gives Back in Big Way

12/09/2015 - Nicholas Cobb, a second-year computer science student, has won national recognition repeatedly for his work with a charitable organization he started at the age of 12. Most recently, he traveled to New York for recognition at the 2015 Nickelodeon HALO Awards. Read More

Warren Hunt Named ACM 2015 Distinguished Engineer

11/30/2015 - Professor Warren Hunt has been recognized as one of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) 2015 Distinguished Engineers. His research involves the use of formal mathematics to write specifications for computer hardware and software and to use proof techniques to determine the validity of such specifications. Read More

Lorenzo Alvisi and Risto Miikkulainen Elected IEEE Fellows

11/30/2015 - Lorenzo Alvisi was selected for his contributions to reliable distributed systems. His research interest is in distributed computing, with a particular emphasis on issues of dependability.  Read More

UTCS Programming Teams Finish Strong at Regional ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

11/12/2015 - A UTCS programming team finished second at this year's ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) regional competition. The team of Arnav Sastry, Daniel Talamas, and Jaime Rivera beat approximately 60 different teams competing in the South Central U.S region of the contest. Read More

Nomadic Computing Speeds Up Big Data Analytics

11/04/2015 - University of Texas researcher designs novel way to analyze bigger datasets using supercomputers and machine learning algorithms. How do Netflix or Facebook know which movies you might like or who you might want to be friends with? Here’s a hint: It starts with a few trillion data points and involves some complicated math and a lot of smart computer programming. Read More

Computer Science vs. Cancer: How Precision Medicine is Turning the Tables on Cancer

11/03/2015 - There are few things as full of anxiety, heartbreak, and anguish as finding out that you or someone you love has cancer. Unfortunately, it’s not at all uncommon. By the American Cancer Society’s estimates it is expected that in the year 2015 alone, there will be 1.6 million new cancer diagnoses and nearly 600,000 deaths—or roughly 1,600 people every day. But statistics are hardly necessary to realize the enormity of the problem. So far, the road to a cure has been long and complicated and with what’s seemed like no end in sight—until recently. Read More

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