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36 Students Head Off to Houston for the 2016 International Grace Hopper Conference
36 Students Head Off to Houston for the 2016 International Grace Hopper Conference This October, 36 young women majoring in computer science and software engineering and six UT Dallas CS faculty members, made their way to Houston, TX, for the annual International Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology (GHC) Conference. The Grace Hopper Conference is designed to bring the research and career interests…
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Dr. Page and His Programming Team Place Fifth in the ACM ICPC South Central Regional Programming Contest
Dr. Page and His Programming Team Place Fifth in the ACM ICPC South Central Regional Programming Contest On October 28th and 29th, four UT Dallas teams competed in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) for the South Central Region. This is the most intellectually demanding programming contest for university students, as well as the largest worldwide programming contest. Regional Contests from all over…
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Dr. Latifur Khan’s Data Mining Research Group Makes Advances in Data Stream Mining
Dr. Latifur Khan’s Data Mining Research Group Makes Advances in Data Stream Mining Dr. Latifur Khan, Professor of Computer Science at UT Dallas and Director of the UT Dallas Data Management and Analytics, and his research group have been doing research in data science for a long time. One of their research focus is data stream mining, where they have…
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Data-Mining Work Offers Insight into Detecting Multiple Hackers
Data-Mining Work Offers Insight into Detecting Multiple Hackers Security efforts to combat hackers usually focus on one method of attack, but computer scientists at UT Dallas have developed a strategy more effective at tackling various types of attacks. Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and director…
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North Texas High Schoolers Compete in the Fall 2016 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Contest
North Texas High Schoolers Compete in the Fall 2016 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Contest For more than a decade, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department has been conducting a statewide “Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Contest.” The contest, which follows ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) style, is…
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The Women Who Compute (WWC) Club Organizes Events to Promote Women in Computing and Technology
The Women Who Compute (WWC) Club Organizes Events to Promote Women in Computing and Technology At UT Dallas, both the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and the UT Dallas Computer Science strive to promote a strong sense of community amongst the female student body by working with UT Dallas clubs and outside…
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Grace Series Continues to Inspire with Lymari Ames of Cisco Systems
Grace Series Continues to Inspire with Lymari Ames of Cisco Systems The Fall 2016 Grace Series continued with its second guest speaker, Lymari Ames of Cisco Systems. Ms. Ames is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with Cisco Systems, Inc. Advanced Services. She is responsible for managing $77 million in profits and losses while focusing…
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UT Dallas CS Faculty Organize VINCI’16
UT Dallas CS Faculty Organize VINCI’16 This past September, the UT Dallas Computer Science department hosted the Ninth Annual International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI’16) in Dallas, TX. This symposium is an international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. UT Dallas…
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Hack Week Winners Develop Mobile App for City of Richardson
Hack Week Winners Develop Mobile App for City of Richardson The City of Richardson is working to implement a new mobile app developed by a pair of UT Dallas students at a community hackathon event. More than 200 UT Dallas students formed teams for Hack Week, an event sponsored by State Farm where the students were…
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UT Dallas CS Department Welcomes In The New School Year With An Assortment Of Student Activities
UT Dallas CS Department Welcomes In The New School Year With An Assortment Of Student Activities This past August marked the beginning of a new 2016 academic year for the UT Dallas campus full of eager students ready to start their academic careers. The UT Dallas Computer Science Department was ready and waiting to welcome…
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UT Dallas CS Student and IBM Watson Intern Shares the Details of His Summer Internship and His Team’s Award Winning Robot Poker Players AI Project
UT Dallas CS Student and IBM Watson Intern Shares the Details of His Summer Internship and His Team’s Award Winning Robot Poker Players AI Project This summer, Indervir Banipal, a UT Dallas CS student, was invited by IBM Watson to take part in a summer internship at their Research Triangle Park Campus in Durham, North…
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The Grace Series Kicks Off The Fall’16 Series With IBM Distinguished Engineer And Master Inventor, Romelia H. Flores
The Grace Series Kicks Off The Fall’16 Series With IBM Distinguished Engineer And Master Inventor, Romelia H. Flores The Grace Series kicked off the new fall 2016 semester on September 14th with guest speaker, Romelia H. Flores, an IBM distinguished engineer and IBM Master Inventor. Romelia’s Grace Series talk brought in a full room of…