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Axxess’ Gift Establishes New Computer Science Scholarship Fund
Axxess’ Gift Establishes New Computer Science Scholarship Fund Axxess, a health care technology company founded by its CEO and University of Texas at Dallas alumnus John Olajide BS’04, has donated $500,000 to establish the Axxess Scholars Program for computer science students. In honor of Axxess’ contributions, the atrium of the Engineering and Computer Science West…
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Dr. Lingming Zhang Wins Two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards at a Leading Software Engineering Conference
Dr. Lingming Zhang Wins Two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards at a Leading Software Engineering Conference Dr. Lingming Zhang recently was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for two separate papers presented at the 28th ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2019), a top-tier conference according to csrankings.org and CCF ranking. Dr. Zhang’s group presented…
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Dr. Kevin Hamlen Sets Spaceflight Simulation Game World Record
Dr. Kevin Hamlen Sets Spaceflight Simulation Game World Record Computer science professor Dr. Kevin Hamlen was searching for the fastest route to a human colony 22,000 light years away in the game Elite Dangerous when the challenge started to look similar to a theory he teaches his students. Hamlen, who was playing with his 6-year-old…
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CS Alumnus Earns Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists, Engineers
CS Alumnus Earns Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists, Engineers As a computer science senior at The University of Texas at Dallas, Ryan Burchfield thought he had his future programmed. He wanted to continue his education with a master’s degree then look for a job at a local telecom company. But after an invitation to…
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UTD CS Alumni Working as Faculty Members at ASU Earn Accolades
UTD CS Alumni Working as Faculty Members at ASU Earn Accolades Dr. Ajay Bansal, a 2007 UT Dallas PhD graduate who now is employed as an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering program in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE) at Arizona State University (ASU), was recently awarded (2019) the Teaching…
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Drs. Andrian Marcus and Vincent Ng Create Automated System for Improving Computer Bug Reports
Drs. Andrian Marcus and Vincent Ng Create Automated System for Improving Computer Bug Reports When software doesn’t work properly, many frustrated users fill out online bug reports. Too often, however, their explanations are unclear or incomplete, leaving developers without enough information to resolve the issue, said Dr. Andrian Marcus, professor of computer science in the…
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Dr. Shiyi Wei Creates Framework That Tracks Down Hard-to-Find Variability Bugs
Dr. Shiyi Wei Creates Framework That Tracks Down Hard-to-Find Variability Bugs One of the biggest challenges to fixing software bugs can be finding them. With support from the National Science Foundation, computer scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas are going after some of the hardest-to-find errors, called variability bugs, which appear only when…
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Dr. Zygmunt Haas Awarded Two Prestigious Fellowship Appointments
Dr. Zygmunt Haas Awarded Two Prestigious Fellowship Appointments In March 2019, Dr. Zygmunt Haas was selected as one of the 28 engineering professionals awarded with the title of the Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). In order to become a Fellow of the IET, a person has to demonstrate a significant level of individual…
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Ultimate Victory: CS & Engineering Students Esports Team Wins Super Smash Bros. National Title
Ultimate Victory: CS & Engineering Students Esports Team Wins Super Smash Bros. National Title The University of Texas at Dallas earned its first athletics national championship last month, and it was its newest squad that secured the title — the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate team. The esports team traveled to Massachusetts to compete in the…
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Drs. Kantarcioglu and Thuraisingham Presented with the SACMAT Test of Time Award
Drs. Kantarcioglu and Thuraisingham Presented with the SACMAT Test of Time Award UT Dallas CS Professors and Cyber Security experts, Drs. Murat Kantarcioglu and Bhavani Thuraisingham were recently presented with the Test of Time award by the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2019) for their paper titled “A Semantic Web Based…
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Dr. Latifur Khan Awarded the IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award
Dr. Latifur Khan Awarded the IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award Last May, Dr. Latifur Khan received the IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award in recognition for his outstanding and sustained research contributions in the field of Big Data Security and Privacy for over ten years. Dr. Khan was given this award at…
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UT Dallas Professor Helps Invent Traffic Lights That Talk to Each Other and Reduce Congestion
UT Dallas Professor Helps Invent Traffic Lights That Talk to Each Other and Reduce Congestion Via Dallas Business Journal || Interview By Rob Schneider — Dr. Rym Zalila-Wenkstern and her team at the University of Texas at Dallas invented a smart traffic light system that allows traffic lights to communicate with each other and collaboratively adjusting the timing signals in real-time…