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UT Dallas CS Hosts NSA Workshop on Advanced Data Science
UT Dallas CS Hosts NSA Workshop on Advanced Data Science This summer, twenty engineers from the National Security Agency (NSA) joined one another at the UT Dallas Computer Science Department for a 5-day NSA funded workshop where they had the opportunity to learn about cutting edge research that is being done in the field of…
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Jonsson School Recognizes Staff, Faculty and Researchers at the Annual Award Ceremony
Jonsson School Recognizes Staff, Faculty and Researchers at the Annual Award Ceremony The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas recently honored staff, teaching assistants and faculty at its annual appreciation awards celebration in May. Award winners were nominated by their peers for their outstanding performance. Dr.…
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Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham talks with the CBSDFW 11 I-Team About the Controversial Hate Website 8chan
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham talks with the CBSDFW 11 I-Team About the Controversial Hate Website 8chan Via CBSDFW.COM | Interview By Brian New – A day after a hate-filled screed allegedly linked to the El Paso mass murder suspect was posted on the website 8chan, the controversial site was knocked offline. The web security service Cloudflare announced it was…
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Youngsters’ Skills Take Flight at University’s Summer Coding Camps
Youngsters’ Skills Take Flight at University’s Summer Coding Camps Eliana Lainez never thought she’d become a pilot. Yet the eighth grader from Fowler Middle School in Plano is not only flying an aircraft, but she also programmed it. Eliana is participating in one of The University of Texas at Dallas’ weeklong Summer Coding Camps. She joined other students, from fifth through 12th grade, in learning a new skill. “I’m learning how…
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Q&A with Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu
Q&A with Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Via UT Dallas Office of Research Blog Interview By Alyssa Galganov — We are surrounded by an incredible expanse of data, created at an exponential rate and offered on a multitude of electronic devices; a wealth of significant information at the ready to benefit a population eager to absorb it. Can…
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UT Dallas CS Department Hosts the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019)
UT Dallas CS Department Hosts the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019) Researchers, students, and industry professionals alike joined one another at the UT Dallas Computer Science Department for the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019). The conference was hosted by the UT Dallas Computer Science Department with…
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UT Dallas CS PhD Graduate, Dr. Travis Goodwin, Awarded 1st Place in the Doctoral Dissertation Competition of the 2019 American Medical Informatics Association
UT Dallas CS PhD Graduate, Dr. Travis Goodwin, Awarded 1st Place in the Doctoral Dissertation Competition of the 2019 American Medical Informatics Association Dr. Travis Goodwin a recent computer science Ph.D. graduate at UT Dallas has been awarded the first prize in the doctoral dissertation competition of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA’19) for his…
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UT Dallas CS Department Launches Research Center for Machine Learning
UT Dallas CS Department Launches Research Center for Machine Learning Machine Learning has gained significant popularity and has flourished in the past decade due to the development of scalable computing coupled with access to diverse data sources. Consequently, it has seemed only fitting that the UT Dallas Computer Science department would launch a research center…
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Grace Series Talks Continue to Inspire through Empowering Talks by Leading Women in Tech
Grace Series Talks Continue to Inspire through Empowering Talks by Leading Women in Tech Whether in an office, lab, or a classroom, the accomplishments of women over the past 100 years — from scientific breakthroughs to personal triumphs — have led the way for others to follow and create their own journeys. This semester,…
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Dr. Vibhav Gogate Appointed Program Chair for the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI’19)
Dr. Vibhav Gogate Appointed Program Chair for the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI’19) This July, Dr. Vibhav Gogate, UT Dallas CS Professor and Co-Director of the UT Dallas Center for Machine Learning, will be serving as program chair for the 2019 Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) in Tel Aviv, Israel. This…
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‘The Future of Police Training’: SURVIVR Uses Virtual Reality to Prep Officers for the Real World
‘The Future of Police Training’: SURVIVR Uses Virtual Reality to Prep Officers for the Real World Via Dallas Innovates || By Payton Potter Founded by a recent UT Dallas CS grad, Brian Hoang, VR training startup SURVIVR is working to change how law enforcement trains its officers, while cutting costs and saving lives along the way.…
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Engineering Education Expert Named New Jonsson School Dean
Engineering Education Expert Named New Jonsson School Dean Dr. Stephanie G. Adams, professor of engineering management and systems engineering at Old Dominion University and dean of its Frank Batten College of Engineering & Technology, will become the fifth dean of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science on Aug. 1. Adams, who holds…