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UTD Underwater Robotics Team Brings Home Awards
A University of Texas at Dallas student team won a third-place award at an international competition for building a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that can collect data on temperature, pressure and chemicals in the ocean. The students demonstrated their vehicle, named VESPA, in an Olympic-sized pool in Kingsport, Tennessee, in June at the annual MATE…
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Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Receives a Pair of Prestigious IEEE Awards
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham recently received the prestigious IEEE Computer Society’s Impact Award from the Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC) for her groundbreaking research in secure multimedia data systems. This award is usually presented at the annual IEEE Computer Society MIPR (Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval) conference. This year, the conference took place in San…
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Empowering Robots to Assist Humans: Dr. Yu Xiang Works with UTD Students and Summer Campers to Advance Robots’ Autonomy
Dr. Yu Xiang leads the Intelligent Robotics and Vision Lab (IRVL) in the department of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. The lab focuses on fundamental research in intelligent robotics and computer vision, and Dr. Xiang considers the scientific question: How can…
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State Farm Builds Stronger UTD Student Connection at Career Event
State Farm, which has donated more than $2.4 million to The University of Texas at Dallas since 2014 for student-focused initiatives, recently hosted 46 students from the Undergraduate Success Scholars (USS) program for a career day and workshop at the company’s offices in Richardson, Texas.
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FROM ONES AND ZEROS TO X’S AND O’S
University of Texas at Dallas senior Blythe Williams has an enviable collegiate highlight reel, including winning the American Southwest Conference (ASC) women’s basketball championship last season.
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Racing to the Top
In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, The University of Texas at Dallas added track and field to the existing cross country team, firing the starter’s gun on a program racing to the top of the American Southwest Conference (ASC). Two of the most decorated members of the team are scholarship athletes — students who…
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UTD Joins National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity Effort
The University of Texas at Dallas has joined a new national center in cybersecurity funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and created to develop strategies to protect the nation’s transportation system against cyberattacks.
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Jonsson School Students To Test AI Search-and-Rescue Tool at NASA
A University of Texas at Dallas student team will test and present its solution to one of NASA’s yearlong student design challenges at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Pioneering Professor Shares Her Journey in Book on Women in Computer Science
A new book about trailblazing women in computer science highlights Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham’s journey, from growing up in Sri Lanka to becoming a respected academic at The University of Texas at Dallas and a renowned cybersecurity expert. Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W, published in April by the Association for Computing Machinery, celebrates the 30-year history…
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2024 Spring International Contest on Software Testing
2024 Spring International Contest on Software Testing Software testing continues to be the primary approach used in practice to ensure the development of high-quality software. However, students graduating with a bachelor’s or a master’s degree in computer science or software engineering may not be properly trained for doing software testing cost-effectively. To increase the awareness…
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From Algorithms to Achievements: UT Dallas Computer Science Class of 2024
UT Dallas celebrated graduation this spring with each of the University’s eight schools hosting its own ceremony. Twelve ceremonies in all were held, along with a doctoral hooding ceremony presided over by the school’s respective deans. More than 5,100 students participated in all the ceremonies. A total of 2,847 bachelor’s, 2,487 master’s and 98 doctoral…
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Computer Science Faculty Research Spotlight: Dr. Kevin Hamlen
Our first interview (in a new spotlight series on UT Dallas computer science faculty) is with Dr. Kevin Hamlen, a Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UT Dallas, and the executive director of UT Dallas’ Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI). His research interests involve language-based security, which leverages programming language theory and compiler design to…