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HackUTD’18 Inspires Student Creativity and Innovation for a Fourth Year
HackUTD’18 Inspires Student Creativity and Innovation for a Fourth Year Last spring, more than 550 college students from all over Texas formed teams for HackUTD’18, a 24-hour Hackathon organized and run by the UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) in partnership with Major League Hacking. Students were challenged to use…
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Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Talks with the Texas Standard about Smart Speakers and their Potential Privacy Threats
Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Talks with the Texas Standard about Smart Speakers and their Potential Privacy Threats Via The Texas Standard | Shelly Brisbin – It remains to be seen whether smart speakers like those sold by Google and Amazon will have a transformative impact in our lives. But some 47 million people in the U.S. have…
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UT Dallas CS Students Win Smart Cities Competition Using AI to Address School Shootings
UT Dallas CS Students Win Smart Cities Competition Using AI to Address School Shootings Research professor Marjorie Zielke PhD’07 and a company founded by computer science senior Ashlesha Nesarikar have both won the city of Richardson’s Smart Gigabit Communities development challenge. The challenge is part of US Ignite’s encouragement for participating cities to create Smart City applications addressing…
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Jonsson School CS Researchers Named Most Influential Scholars in Field
Jonsson School CS Researchers Named Most Influential Scholars in Field Multiple Computer Science Department faculty from The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science have been named to the AMiner Most Influential Scholar Annual List, which recognizes the world’s top-cited research scholars – from both industry and academia – in the fields of science…
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Professors Cardenas and Thuraisingham Join the New NSA Lablet on CPS Security
Professors Cardenas and Thuraisingham Join the New NSA Lablet on CPS Security Via Vanderbilt University News – Cyber-physical systems let you analyze Fitbit data on a smartphone. They tell your house to bump up the thermostat before you get there. They run traffic lights. Mass transit. Electrical grids. It’s not a question about whether these…
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400 High Schoolers Compete at this Spring’s Battle of the Brains: HS Programming Competition
400 High Schoolers Compete at this Spring’s Battle of the Brains: HS Programming Competition The Spring 2018 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition was held on April 7th, with State Farm Insurance sponsoring the event. Registration for the Spring 2018 competition was free, thanks to the sponsorship. The contest drew more than 117 teams comprising…
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Emerging Technologies Summit Highlights Blockchain Technology
Emerging Technologies Summit Highlights Blockchain Technology Via UT Dallas Mercury News | Cindy Folefack – Students and faculty members at UT Dallas had the opportunity to network with industry leaders during a summit focused on adapting companies to new technological discoveries. The UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosted the first annual Emerging Technologies…
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UT Dallas CS and IT Empowerment for Her Program Promote STEM Education for Middle School Girls Through Weekend Workshops
UT Dallas CS and IT Empowerment for Her Program Promote STEM Education for Middle School Girls Through Weekend Workshops Last January and February, Saumya Rawat, a senior at Dallas’ School of Science and Engineering Magnet, worked with Dr. Janell Straach, a CS Professor and the Director of the UT Dallas Center for Engaging Women in…
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Students’ Entrepreneurial Venture Receives Support from the UT Dallas CS Department
Students’ Entrepreneurial Venture Receives Support from the UT Dallas CS Department The UT Dallas Computer Science Department recently instituted the Software Startup Launch Track to motivate computer science and software engineering students to become entrepreneurs. Under this program, student engagement with entrepreneurship starts from the freshman or sophomore year itself, and culminates in a startup housed…
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Company Co-Founded by CS Student Invited to Participate in the Red Bull Launch Institute
Company Co-Founded by CS Student Invited to Participate in the Red Bull Launch Institute Via UT Dallas Mercury | Noumika Balaji – Co-founder of augmented reality platform for tourist attractions attended program to help develop young entrepreneurs A UT Dallas student startup was selected to participate in the Red Bull Launch Institute, a program Red Bull…
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Dr. Cong Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Further His Research in Autonomous Driving
Dr. Cong Liu Receives NSF CAREER Award to Further His Research in Autonomous Driving Via UT Dallas News Center | Melissa Cutler – A professor at The University of Texas at Dallas hopes within the next 10 years, you’ll be driving an autonomous car that his research helped make possible. Dr. Cong Liu, assistant professor of…
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Dr. Benjamin Raichel Receives NSF CAREER Award for his Project on Geometric-Based Data Analysis
Dr. Benjamin Raichel Receives NSF CAREER Award for his Project on Geometric-Based Data Analysis Via UT Dallas News Center | Melissa Cutler – Dr. Benjamin Raichel’s Project Adds New Dimensions to Data Analysis When you think of geometry, you might think of mathematical equations involving the size, shape and position of objects, and the properties of space.…