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Dr. Pedro Domingos – The Spring 2015 Distinguished Lecture Series
Dr. Pedro Domingos – The Spring 2015 Distinguished Lecture Series The first talk in the Computer Science Department’s spring 2015 Distinguished Lecture Series took place on February 27th 2015 and featured Dr. Pedro Domingos. He is currently a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests are in machine…
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The Good Life: Data Show Recent Grads Faring Well in the Workplace
The Good Life: Data Show Recent Grads Faring Well in the Workplace Andrew Seguin BS’09 packed 10 items into a backpack, straddled his blue Kawasaki motorcycle and embarked on a six-month cross-country journey to clear his head before pursuing a career. The University of Texas at Dallas computer science graduate spent his college years acing tests and…
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Computer Science Students Earn Top Awards
Computer Science Students Earn Top Awards UT Dallas computer science students continue to impress with their technical prowess in cybersecurity. Top awards recently were earned at the 11th annual New York University Polytechnic School Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) conference and at the Capital One Coding for Good Hackathon competition. “Our students have shown time…
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UTD students’ tech-savvy streak continues
UTD students’ tech-savvy streak continues Two years ago, University of Texas at Dallas students Justin Ehlert, Nelson LeDuc and Alex Gwyn, along with graduate student Naveen Tammineni came together and developed an app that provided band schedules for the Richardson Wildflower! Festival. The cool app helped festival-goers with a much-needed tool for tracking concerts beforehand…
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CS Students Challenge Each Other in Another Programming Contest
CS Students Challenge Each Other in Another Programming Contest UT Dallas Computer Science students once again got to show off their programming skills on Saturday afternoon, February 14th. A computer programming contest was organized by UTD ACM student chapter with the help of Professor Ivor Page. Prof. Ivor Page has been organizing these competitions for…
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UT Dallas Ranks #21 on LinkedIn’s “Best Universities for Software Developers”
UT Dallas Ranks #21 on LinkedIn’s “Best Universities for Software Developers” The professional networking site, LinkedIn, recently published their rankings of universities based on how successful recent graduates have been at landing desirable jobs. In the category of “desirable software development job,” UT Dallas was ranked 21st. Carnegie Mellon University topped the rankings. Only two…
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Student Chapter of the ACM Organizes UT Dallas’ 1st major Hackathon
Student Chapter of the ACM Organizes UT Dallas’ 1st major Hackathon HackUTD, the first UT Dallas Hackathon, took place over the weekend of January 17 and 18. It started at 11 am on Saturday and lasted until late Sunday afternoon. The event was organized by the UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM (Association for…
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Cyber security Institute to Celebrate Its 10th Anniversary with Events
Cyber security Institute to Celebrate Its 10th Anniversary with Events In 2004, to address the increasing attacks to the nation’s computers, communications systems and infrastructure, UT Dallas became proactive in cybersecurity education and research by establishing what has become the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI). Since then, it has grown into one of…
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Women Who Compute (WWC) Students at UT Dallas Make a Difference
Women Who Compute (WWC) Students at UT Dallas Make a Difference This year, Make a Difference Day was held on Saturday, 10/25/2014. Students at UT Dallas participated in a common mission with millions of other volunteers throughout the world to improve the lives of others. The mission statement on the Make A Difference Day website states:…
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2nd Annual Teacher Inspiration Award Ceremony
2nd Annual Teacher Inspiration Award Ceremony The 2nd Annual Teacher Inspiration Award Ceremony were held by the Computer Science Department at UT Dallas on Friday, 10/24/2014. Inspiration Awards were given to teachers who inspired Computer Science students at UT Dallas to pursue an education in Computer Science (CS). Teachers were nominated by freshmen students from…
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Helping Computers to Understand Human Language
Helping Computers to Understand Human Language The research in Dr. Yang Liu’s Speech and Language Processing Lab reflects the myriad of problems humans encounter when understanding language. Written communication tends to be more formal than verbal communication. Verbal communication includes more slang and sentence fragments. Text communication includes standard and nonstandard abbreviations along with misspelled words and…
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Summer Research Program for Undergraduates
Summer Research Program for Undergraduates The Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas conducts a ten-week summer research program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for undergraduate students. For the summer class of 2014 (pictured above) the focus was on “software safety” however, the technology and skills learned by the students…