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CS Department Organizes a Bevy of Activities to Welcome Students to the New School Year
CS Department Organizes a Bevy of Activities to Welcome Students to the New School Year This August marked the beginning of a new 2015 academic year for UT Dallas and the Computer Department. The UT Dallas Computer Science department welcomed 2,876 students, including 466 computer science/software engineering freshmen, with activities and events as a way…
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Samsung donates $28K of Virtual Reality Equipment to UT Dallas for VR course
Samsung donates $28K of Virtual Reality Equipment to UT Dallas for VR course This semester Samsung Electronics America, a global leader in technology, donated 30 Samsung Gear VR (virtual reality) Innovator Edition head-mounted displays (HMDs) along with 30 Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphones to the UT Dallas Virtual Reality course instructed by Dr. Ryan McMahan. The donations would not have been…
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Computer Scientist Seeks Stronger Security Shroud for the Cloud
Computer Scientist Seeks Stronger Security Shroud for the Cloud Dr. Zhiqiang Lin, of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Dallas, is working to advance the field of cloud computing, and in the process, has developed a technique that allows one computer in a virtual network to monitor another for invasions or viruses.…
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Undergrad Research Matching Event gets Students Ready for UG Research Course
Undergrad Research Matching Event gets Students Ready for UG Research Course UT Dallas’s Computer Science Department brought together its distinguished Computer Science/Software Engineering faculty and invited ambitious undergraduate students with high GPA’s to participate in the Undergraduate Research Matching Event as a prelude to the Undergraduate Research in Computer Science course. Dr.’s Linda Morales and Janell Straach, both UT Dallas CS professors and the…
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Institute of Data Analytics Signs Project Extension with QuEST Forum
Institute of Data Analytics Signs Project Extension with QuEST Forum The Institute of Data Analytics, part of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Dallas, has signed a 3-year project extension with QuEST Forum to manage data for the TL 9000 quality standard. QuEST Forum is a global association of the…
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UT Dallas Center for CS Outreach Codes with K-12 Campers for the Summer of 2015
UT Dallas Center for CS Outreach Codes with K-12 Campers for the Summer of 2015 This summer students from all over North Texas and beyond ranging from ages five all the way to seventeen came to the UT Dallas Computer Science department to explore the world of Computer Programming. During the eleven weeks of summer…
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UT Dallas CS Dept. Gets Involved With The Open Source Community
UT Dallas CS Dept. Gets Involved With The Open Source Community An Independent Studies course on cloud computing and networking (using OpenStack) was offered at the University of Texas at Dallas Computer Science Department in conjunction with Award Solutions, a company that provides training and consulting to employees of large companies. The instructor of the…
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Dr. Vincent Ng’s Group Advances the State-of-the-Art in Automated Essay Grading
Dr. Vincent Ng’s Group Advances the State-of-the-Art in Automated Essay Grading Dr. Vincent Ng, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas and a member of the UT Dallas Human Language Technology Research Institute, has been active in a range of research areas related to machine learning of natural languages, part…
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Discrete Math Mentor Center Celebrates its Three-Year Anniversary
Discrete Math Mentor Center Celebrates its Three-Year Anniversary The Discrete Math Mentor Center (DMMC)/Computer Science Mentor Center (CSMC) celebrated its three-year anniversary in the spring of 2015. The DMMC welcomes students of Computer Science and Software Engineering who are studying Discrete Mathematics to augment and integrate their classroom learning. A solid understanding of Discrete Mathematics is…
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The Computing Scholars Honors Program Celebrates its Two Years of Success
The Computing Scholars Honors Program Celebrates its Two Years of Success In the fall of 2013, the Computer Science department at the University of Texas at Dallas launched the Computer Science Computing Scholars (CS2) Honor Program, also known as the Computing Scholars Honor Program. Twenty-seven students joined the program that fall; some of the students…
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UT Dallas’ Computer Science Department visited by 200 teachers from the Computer Science Teachers’ Association
UT Dallas’ Computer Science Department visited by 200 teachers from the Computer Science Teachers’ Association Two hundred computer science high school teachers attending the national Computer Science Teachers’ Association (CSTA) conference visited UT Dallas for an evening event. The UT Dallas Computer Science department hosted the teachers to show them the facilities and teaching resources,…
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UT Dallas CS Department Hosts two Residential Camps for Tech-Minded Girls
UT Dallas CS Department Hosts two Residential Camps for Tech-Minded Girls The UT Dallas Computer Science Department is doing their part to inspire high school girls to get interested in the world of computer science by holding residential camps on the UT Dallas campus. The UT Dallas CS Department ran two residential camps for young…