New Computer Science Complex at The University of Texas at Austin Receives...
AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas at Austin announced today (April 17) a $30 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, part of a $120 million capital campaign to construct a new...
View ArticleThree cheers for Watson
Count computer scientists Bruce Porter, Ray Mooney and Ken Barker among those cheering for the machine in the Jeopardy! Challenge, which pits two human Jeopardy! champions against Watson, a computer...
View ArticleDrug Design Receives Private Grand Challenge Research Funds
Professor Chandrajit Bajaj received a 2011-12 Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty Award to pursue his project on three-dimensional imaging at the molecular level of therapeutic drug targets. He was among...
View ArticleInnovative Summer Program in Computer Science Reaches Out to Teenage Girls to...
The ninth annual First Bytes Summer Camp, sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science, begins on June 19 on the university campus. The free, weeklong camp showcases...
View ArticleUT Austin Villa Wins World RoboCup Championships
AUSTIN, Texas—UT Austin Villa, a team of programmers led by University of Texas at Austin computer scientists Peter Stone and Patrick MacAlpine, has won the 2011 RoboCup Soccer championships in the 3-D...
View ArticleComputer Scientist Brent Waters Selected as Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
Microsoft Research has selected Assistant Professor Brent Waters as one of eight read more
View ArticleNew Center for Cloud Computing Created at The University of Texas at Austin...
Cloud computing, where all of our photos, emails, and data stored in a distributed “cloud,” is the future. To improve emerging cloud-based technologies, a new center for cloud computing research was...
View ArticleNew Center for Cloud Computing Will Impact Mobile Computing and Internet...
AUSTIN, Texas — As part of its research efforts to help create safer and faster computing, the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin has partnered with read more
View ArticleUniversity of Texas at Austin Team Wins Robot Soccer World Championships in...
The UT Austin Villa Standard Platform League RoboCup World Champion Team, which includes Dr. Peter Stone, doctoral students Todd Hester, Sam Barrett, Katie Genter, Piyush Khandelwal and Jake Menashe,...
View ArticlePresident Obama Honors Computer Scientist
AUSTIN, Texas — Computer scientist Brent Waters was honored at the White House this week with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the...
View ArticleLili Qiu Named ACM 2013 Distinguished Scientist
Associate Professor Lili Qiu has been recognized as one of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) 2013 Distinguished Scientists. Her research focus is on internet and wireless networking....
View ArticleDavid Zuckerman Elected ACM Fellow
Professor David Zuckerman has been elected to be an ACM Fellow for his contributions to randomness extraction, pseudo randomness, and their role in complexity theory.read more
View ArticleThe University of Texas at Austin’s Game Development Program Announces Name...
In order to be responsive to the continuing advances of the creative industries, the University of Texas at Austin announced today the renaming of the Game Development Program to the Game and Mobile...
View ArticleRavikumar Named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
UTCS Assistant Professor Pradeep Ravikumar is one of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers selected by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as recipients of the 2014 Sloan Research Fellowships....
View ArticleJay Misra Wins 2014 IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award
UTCS Professor Jay Misra has been awarded the 2014 IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award. Misra currently teaches Analysis of Algorithms, Theory in Programming Practice, and Distributed Computing. In...
View ArticleUT Austin-AISD Partnership to Support Computer Science Education
The University of Texas at Austin and the Austin Independent School District (AISD) are partnering to offer college credit to computer science students in AISD high schools.read more
View ArticleWilliam Cook Wins 2014 Dahl-Nygaard Award
UTCS Associate Professor William Cook has won the prestigious 2014 Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize. The Senior Prize is awarded to William Cook for his contributions to the theory and practice of...
View ArticleGame Development Program Is Launched
AUSTIN, Texas-The College of Natural Sciences is teaming up with two other colleges at the university to launch undergraduate students into an interdisciplinary game development program.read more
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