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NSF Brings Together Computer Scientists, Industry for New Tech Hub
NSF Brings Together Computer Scientists, Industry for New Tech Hub Computer scientists at UT Dallas hope that funding awarded by the National Science Foundation to create an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center will help the Dallas area become a research hub for technology that enhances human abilities. Like all I/UCRCs, the iPerform Center for Assistive Technologies to Enhance Human…
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Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Delivers the Inaugural Grace Series Lecture
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Delivers the Inaugural Grace Series Lecture This past Wednesday, April 1st 2015, the Department of Computer Science at University of Texas at Dallas presented the first Grace Series lecture with Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham as the inaugural speaker. The objective of the Grace Series is to present a program of lectures about the…
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Dr. David Walker – The Spring 2015 Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. David Walker – The Spring 2015 Distinguished Lecture Series On April 3rd, the Computer Science Department’s Distinguished Lecture series featured Dr. David Walker, a professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Dr. Walker received his B.Sc. from Queen’s University, Canada, in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2001. Dr.…
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Battle of the Brains – The 2015 Spring High School Programming Contest
Battle of the Brains – The 2015 Spring High School Programming Contest The Computer Science department of the University of Texas at Dallas organized this latest High School Programming Contest on Saturday, March 21st from 10am to 4pm. The contest was originally scheduled for February 28th, but due to snow and ice that fell on…
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National Center for Women & IT and Microsoft Research Sponsor UTD’s Tech Girls Summer Camp
National Center for Women & IT and Microsoft Research Sponsor UTD’s Tech Girls Summer Camp The National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT.org) and Microsoft Research has selected to sponsor the University of Texas at Dallas’ Connect-Inspire-Guide Camp for female freshman students. The NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund awards NCWIT’s Academic Alliance members at non-profit…
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Living Learning Community Host a 31-Hour Hackathon
Living Learning Community Host a 31-Hour Hackathon The CS Living Learning Community (LLC) and the CS department sponsored a Hackathon over the weekend of March 7th and 8th. The event started at noon on Saturday and ended early Sunday evening. The principal objective of the weekend Hackathon was to bring together CS students to develop…
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NCWIT Encourages Young Women through the Aspirations in Computing Program
NCWIT Encourages Young Women through the Aspirations in Computing Program Twelve young female high school students received the Award for Aspirations in Computing from the NCWIT (The National Center for Women & Technology) in a day-long event held in late February. The NCWIT is a non-profit community of 600 universities, companies, non-profits, and government organizations…
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Creator of ‘UTD Eats’ Franchises Dining App at Other Universities
Creator of ‘UTD Eats’ Franchises Dining App at Other Universities When Justin Ehlert was a freshman at UT Dallas, he and his friends occasionally became frustrated when they would walk to the dining hall and realize that it had already closed. That frustration drove him to develop UTD Eats, a website and iOS app that shows…
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Addressing The Evolving Challenges Of Cybersecurity
Addressing The Evolving Challenges Of Cybersecurity Last week, cyber attackers took on targets ranging from the White House to the town of Cleburne in North Texas. Russians are suspected of trying to break into unclassified White House computers. And hackers broke into Cleburne’s system after a police officer shot and killed a dog. The University…
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Dr. James Kurose – The Spring 2015 Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. James Kurose – The Spring 2015 Distinguished Lecture Series The Computer Science Department’s Distinguished Lecture series on March 6, 2015 featured Dr. James Kurose who is the Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Dr. Kurose leads the CISE Directorate in its mission to uphold…
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Cyber Security Expert Talks About Privacy, National Security, and Cyber War
Cyber Security Expert Talks About Privacy, National Security, and Cyber War Dr. Yvo Desmedt, Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at UT Dallas and a globally recognized expert in cryptography, cyber security, and cyber infrastructure protection, recently spoke at two conferences on the all-important topics of privacy and national security, respectively. The first of these talks was given at…
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NSF Projects Offer Research Experience for Undergraduates
NSF Projects Offer Research Experience for Undergraduates The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Dallas is home to two different research projects for undergraduate students sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Eric Wong, professor of computer science, leads a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) project about software safety, and Dr. Amy Walker, associate professor of materials…