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Presenting, a Patch for HeartBleed Bug
Presenting, a Patch for HeartBleed Bug US cybersecurity researchers have developed a technique that fights the Heartbleed virus, and detects and entraps hackers who might be using it to steal sensitive data. The Heartbleed bug, which became public last week, has set alarm bells ringing across the globe, including India, for fear of exposing millions…
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15 Distinguished Faculty Members Honored at Investiture Ceremony
A crowd of family members, colleagues and benefactors gathered to pay tribute as UT Dallas celebrated 15 of its most accomplished faculty members with a formal Investiture Ceremony and reception March 18. The ceremony honored both the distinguished faculty members and the far-sighted donors who helped establish the endowed chairs and professorships,President David E. Daniel…
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Hone Skills, Have Fun at UT Dallas Summer Camps
For K-12 students seeking an experience beyond the traditional campfires, s’mores and horseback riding, UT Dallas offers summer camps for kids interested in robotics, chess, sports, engineering, computer programming, theater and more. The camps teach students new skills and give them an introduction to the University and college life, said Raul Hinojosa Jr., director of…
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A Walk Through Virtual Reality
Dr. Ryan McMahan, pictured above, is wearing an enhanced Oculus Rift in the Motion Capture Lab at UT Dallas. The Oculus Rift is a commercial head-mounted display (HMD) that provides orientation tracking to allow the user to immersively look around a virtual environment. The enhanced Oculus Rift, modified by Dr. McMahan and his students, also…
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For the best ROI, get your computer science degree at a state school
Based on the expected annual return, computer science degrees from state universities pay off better than those from private schools. If you’re a high school student – or the parent of one – thinking about what to study in college, computer science is obviously a solid choice. Demand for software developers continues to go up,as…
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This is the Year of the Horse
The Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival. Yuan-Xiao, also known as the Lantern Festival, is celebrated 15 days after the Chinese New Year. In 2014, the Chinese New Year occurred on January 31st and Yuan-Xiao occurred on February 14th. The year 2014 is the year of the horse. The Computer Science…
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Google Vice President Talks Old, New Technology at ATEC Lecture
Vinton G. Cerf — a ‘Father of the Internet’ — Touted Importance of UT Dallas’ Research During First Campus Visit. As a crowd filled the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building’s lecture hall, the lights glowing around the walls of the room were a bright blue, red, yellow and green. The multicolored arrangement was a…
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Cybersecurity Researchers Roll Out A New Heartbleed Solution
Technique Called ‘Red Herring’ Creates Decoy Servers, Entraps, Monitors Hackers Who Think They’re Stealing Data. As companies scrambled in recent days to address the latest cybersecurity bug known as Heartbleed, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas had a solution that fixes the vulnerability, and also detects and entraps hackers who might be using…
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Research in Big Data is Big at UT Dallas
At the weekly Computer Science mixer on Friday, 4/18/2014, Luis Mojica, Tahrima Rahman, David Smith, Somdeb Sarkel, Vibhav Gogate, and Deepak Venugopal (pictured above) described their research, related to Big Data. The camaraderie among the PhD graduate students and their adviser, Dr. Vibhav Gogate, was evident on the first page of their presentation. The description…
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A Wireless Network Test Emulator with repeatable results
A Wireless Network Test Emulator (WiNe TestEr) is being developed by a research team from the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTDallas) to run controlled experiments on wireless networks. Dr. Ravi Prakash, Dr. Subbarayan Venkatesan, and Dr. Neeraj Mittal work with some additional researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU).…
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Professor to Develop Framework to Protect Computers’ Cores
UT Dallas cybersecurity expert Dr. Zhiqiang Lin has received funding from the U.S. Air Force to develop a defense framework that burrows deep into a computer system to protect its core. The Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) provides up to $360,000 over three years to…
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Dr. Gogate is a Big Data Champion
For three months in 2010 and in 2012, geeky, international competitions were held online and Dr. Vibhav Gogate’s team won in several categories. His team competed against about eight other teams, but this doesn’t mean there wasn’t much competition. Quite the contrary! There are only a handful of teams in the world that have the…