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Drs. Andrian Marcus and Vincent Ng Create Automated System for Improving Computer Bug Reports
Drs. Andrian Marcus and Vincent Ng Create Automated System for Improving Computer Bug Reports When software doesn’t work properly, many frustrated users fill out online bug reports. Too often, however, their explanations are unclear or incomplete, leaving developers without enough information to resolve the issue, said Dr. Andrian Marcus, professor of computer science in the…
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Dr. Shiyi Wei Creates Framework That Tracks Down Hard-to-Find Variability Bugs
Dr. Shiyi Wei Creates Framework That Tracks Down Hard-to-Find Variability Bugs One of the biggest challenges to fixing software bugs can be finding them. With support from the National Science Foundation, computer scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas are going after some of the hardest-to-find errors, called variability bugs, which appear only when…
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Dr. Zygmunt Haas Awarded Two Prestigious Fellowship Appointments
Dr. Zygmunt Haas Awarded Two Prestigious Fellowship Appointments In March 2019, Dr. Zygmunt Haas was selected as one of the 28 engineering professionals awarded with the title of the Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). In order to become a Fellow of the IET, a person has to demonstrate a significant level of individual…
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Ultimate Victory: CS & Engineering Students Esports Team Wins Super Smash Bros. National Title
Ultimate Victory: CS & Engineering Students Esports Team Wins Super Smash Bros. National Title The University of Texas at Dallas earned its first athletics national championship last month, and it was its newest squad that secured the title — the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate team. The esports team traveled to Massachusetts to compete in the…
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Drs. Kantarcioglu and Thuraisingham Presented with the SACMAT Test of Time Award
Drs. Kantarcioglu and Thuraisingham Presented with the SACMAT Test of Time Award UT Dallas CS Professors and Cyber Security experts, Drs. Murat Kantarcioglu and Bhavani Thuraisingham were recently presented with the Test of Time award by the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2019) for their paper titled “A Semantic Web Based…
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Dr. Latifur Khan Awarded the IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award
Dr. Latifur Khan Awarded the IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award Last May, Dr. Latifur Khan received the IEEE Big Data Security Senior Research Award in recognition for his outstanding and sustained research contributions in the field of Big Data Security and Privacy for over ten years. Dr. Khan was given this award at…
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UT Dallas Professor Helps Invent Traffic Lights That Talk to Each Other and Reduce Congestion
UT Dallas Professor Helps Invent Traffic Lights That Talk to Each Other and Reduce Congestion Via Dallas Business Journal || Interview By Rob Schneider — Dr. Rym Zalila-Wenkstern and her team at the University of Texas at Dallas invented a smart traffic light system that allows traffic lights to communicate with each other and collaboratively adjusting the timing signals in real-time…
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UT Dallas CS Hosts NSA Workshop on Advanced Data Science
UT Dallas CS Hosts NSA Workshop on Advanced Data Science This summer, twenty engineers from the National Security Agency (NSA) joined one another at the UT Dallas Computer Science Department for a 5-day NSA funded workshop where they had the opportunity to learn about cutting edge research that is being done in the field of…
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Jonsson School Recognizes Staff, Faculty and Researchers at the Annual Award Ceremony
Jonsson School Recognizes Staff, Faculty and Researchers at the Annual Award Ceremony The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas recently honored staff, teaching assistants and faculty at its annual appreciation awards celebration in May. Award winners were nominated by their peers for their outstanding performance. Dr.…
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Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham talks with the CBSDFW 11 I-Team About the Controversial Hate Website 8chan
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham talks with the CBSDFW 11 I-Team About the Controversial Hate Website 8chan Via CBSDFW.COM | Interview By Brian New – A day after a hate-filled screed allegedly linked to the El Paso mass murder suspect was posted on the website 8chan, the controversial site was knocked offline. The web security service Cloudflare announced it was…
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Youngsters’ Skills Take Flight at University’s Summer Coding Camps
Youngsters’ Skills Take Flight at University’s Summer Coding Camps Eliana Lainez never thought she’d become a pilot. Yet the eighth grader from Fowler Middle School in Plano is not only flying an aircraft, but she also programmed it. Eliana is participating in one of The University of Texas at Dallas’ weeklong Summer Coding Camps. She joined other students, from fifth through 12th grade, in learning a new skill. “I’m learning how…
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Q&A with Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu
Q&A with Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Via UT Dallas Office of Research Blog Interview By Alyssa Galganov — We are surrounded by an incredible expanse of data, created at an exponential rate and offered on a multitude of electronic devices; a wealth of significant information at the ready to benefit a population eager to absorb it. Can…