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UT Dallas and NCWIT Honor 30 North Texas High School Women For Their Outstanding Technical Accomplishments at the NCWIT Aspirations Awards
UT Dallas and NCWIT Honor 30 North Texas High School Women For Their Outstanding Technical Accomplishments at the NCWIT Aspirations Awards Last March, as part of an ongoing effort to encourage more young women to choose careers in technology, the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) in conjunction with UT Dallas recognized thirty high…
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Dr. Vibhav Gogate Gets CAREER Award for Artificial Intelligence Work
Dr. Vibhav Gogate Gets CAREER Award for Artificial Intelligence Work Recipient of National Science Foundation Grant Wants to Refine, Accelerate Markov Logic Networks UT Dallas assistant professor of computer science Dr. Vibhav Gogate has earned a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his work to improve a type of computer algorithm…
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Prof. Prabhakaran Shares 3D Immersive Tele-Rehabilitation Research at Capitol Hill
Prof. Prabhakaran Shares 3D Immersive Tele-Rehabilitation Research at Capitol Hill Via Jonsson School News – Dr. B. Prabhakaran, professor of computer science, and a team of researchers recently shared their work with U.S. congress and senate members in Washington D.C. With advanced 3D modeling, virtual and mixed reality and networking technologies, Prabhakaran has developed remote physical therapy…
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University Honors Graduate Students for Excellence in Research, Teaching
University Honors Graduate Students for Excellence in Research, Teaching In recognition of excellence among doctoral students, The University of Texas at Dallas’ Office of Graduate Studies has introduced an awards program honoring the top doctoral dissertation in each school. Winners of the inaugural 2017 Best Dissertation Award were announced at an April reception celebrating excellence in graduate education.…
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Dr. Alvaro Cardenas’ PhD Student, Junia Valente, Talks to Forbes About How Vulnerable Quadcopter Drones Are To Hacking
Dr. Alvaro Cardenas’ PhD Student, Junia Valente, Talks to Forbes About How Vulnerable Quadcopter Drones Are To Hacking Via Forbes – With so many reports of poor security on consumer drones, UAV enthusiasts would be forgiven for thinking manufacturers would have added mitigations against the most basic attacks. But, looking at one particularly popular model of…
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Biannual Battle of the Brains Programming Contest Challenges High Schoolers From 26 High Schools From All Over North Texas
Biannual Battle of the Brains Programming Contest Challenges High Schoolers From 26 High Schools From All Over North Texas This spring the biannual Battle of the Brains High School Programming Contest brought in 100 teams from 26 different North Texas high schools. For more than a decade, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department has been…
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UT Dallas Computer Science Researchers Make Two Important Discoveries in Computational Geometry
UT Dallas Computer Science Researchers Make Two Important Discoveries in Computational Geometry Dr. Benjamin Raichel, assistant professor of computer science, and his collaborators recently made two important discoveries in the area of computational geometry. Computational geometry is a field of study devoted to the development of efficient algorithms for problems which can be stated in…
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Google Visits With UT Dallas CS & SE Students for a Week of Google Tech Talks, Workshops, and Other Google Events
Google Visits With UT Dallas CS & SE Students for a Week of Google Tech Talks, Workshops, and Other Google Events Earlier this semester, Google paid a visit with their team of UT Dallas CS Google Alumni to the UT Dallas Computer Science department for a week of activities, tech talks, workshops, and Q&A’s as part of their Google University Outreach…
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UT Dallas CS Celebrates Pi Day With The Mathematical Sciences Department
UT Dallas CS Celebrates Pi Day With The Mathematical Sciences Department Earlier this month on March 19th, the UT Dallas CS Department and the Mathematical Sciences Department celebrated national Pi day with a series of lectures, pizzas, pies, mathematical interaction games, mathematical models, and other fun activities. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14)…
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HackUTD’17 Motivates 500 Students For 24 Hours With Big Ideas, Virtual Reality, Creativity, And Design
HackUTD’17 Motivates 500 Students For 24 Hours With Big Ideas, Virtual Reality, Creativity, And Design The Third Annual HackUTD 24-hour hackathon was held March 4th and 5th with approximately 500 students participating from all over the nation. The HackUTD event was organized by the UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) under the guidance of UT…
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The Spring’17 Grace Series Continues to Empower With Dr. Peggy Shadduck, DCCCD STEM Institute Director
The Spring’17 Grace Series Continues to Empower With Dr. Peggy Shadduck, DCCCD STEM Institute Director The Spring 2017 run of the Grace Series carried on with its second speaker, Dr. Peggy Shadduck, Director of both the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) STEM Institute and the Dallas/North Texas STEM Degree Accelerator Program. Last February, Dr. Peggy Shadduck’s Grace Series…
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Thuraisingham Receives The Inaugural And Prestigious Research Award In Data And Applications Security And Privacy At The 2017 ACM CODASPY
Thuraisingham Receives The Inaugural And Prestigious Research Award In Data And Applications Security And Privacy At The 2017 ACM CODASPY Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham is the inaugural recipient of the prestigious 2017 CODASPY Research Award, presented at the Association of Computing Machinery’s Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY) in Scottsdale, Arizona on March 23, 2017. This award represents a high honor that is given to a researcher working in Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DASPY) who…