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Thuraisingham Receives the 2016 Senior Faculty Research Award
Thuraisingham Receives the 2016 Senior Faculty Research Award 35 years of research, development, and technology transfer has resulted in prestigious fellowships, technical achievement awards from IEEE and ACM and culminates in the Jonsson School 2016 Senior Faculty Research Award for Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham. Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, became the first professor of Computer Science and the…
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UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) Establishes the Center for Engaging Women in Cyber Security
UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) Establishes the Center for Engaging Women in Cyber Security Coming off of the success of hosting the Women in Cyber Security (WiCys ) 2016 Conference in Dallas, Texas early last April, the UT Dallas’s Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) has established the inaugural Center…
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CS Department Holds Its Biennial Retreat on Lake Ray Hubbard
CS Department Holds Its Biennial Retreat on Lake Ray Hubbard The Computer Science Department held its biennial retreat on May 2nd, 2016, at the Rockwall Hilton in Rockwall, TX. The retreat began at 8:30am and went on till 4:30pm. According to Professor Gopal Gupta, Head of the UT Dallas CS Department, the goal of the…
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Dr. Kantarcioglu and Team Receive Best Application Paper Award at PAKDD’16
Dr. Kantarcioglu and Team Receive Best Application Paper Award at PAKDD’16 This past April, Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, UT Dallas computer science professor, and Director of the UT Dallas Data Security and Privacy Lab, and one of his team’s research scientists, Dr. Yan Zhou, received the acclaimed Best Application Paper Award from the 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data…
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Dr. Ryan McMahan, Virtual Reality Researcher and CS Professor Wins NSF Career Grant
Dr. Ryan McMahan, Virtual Reality Researcher and CS Professor Wins NSF Career Grant My argument is that virtual reality will never be as realistic as the real world. But there are things we can do in VR that you can’t do in the real world – things that can improve the training process. A prestigious…
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Education Matters: Coding Club – Dr. Veerasamy Discusses Coding Club with Arkansas Matters
Education Matters: Coding Club – Dr. Veerasamy Discusses Coding Club with Arkansas Matters Arkansas Matters – More schools are including “coding” in their curriculum, and the students are younger than ever. Nine-year-old Isabelle Visser loves to “play” on the computer, but her classwork is no ordinary game. She is learning how to code! “There’s a…
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WiCyS’16 – Women in Cybersecurity: Reducing the Gender Gap – A Three Part Series
WiCyS’16 – Women in Cybersecurity: Reducing the Gender Gap – A Three Part Series CTOvision – This post is the first in a three part series on the Women in Cybersecurity Conference brought to you by CTOvision and Katie Kennedy. On March 31st through April 2nd, women from academia, government, and industry from around the globe gathered…
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Undergrads Explore Joining Faculty Research Projects During the UG Research Speed Matching Lunch
Undergrads Explore Joining Faculty Research Projects During the UG Research Speed Matching Lunch This past April, twenty-four UT Dallas Computer Science Undergraduate students were invited to take part in the Spring Computer Science Undergraduate Research Speed Matching Luncheon. The event brought together both UT Dallas’s distinguished computer science and software engineering faculty members and a select group of ambitious CS/SE undergraduate students. Students…
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Dr. Sanda Harabagiu Delivers the Last Grace Series Talk for the Spring 2016 Semester
Dr. Sanda Harabagiu Delivers the Last Grace Series Talk for the Spring 2016 Semester On April 4th, the Grace Series ended its spring 2016 talks with Dr. Sanda Harabagiu, a Professor of Computer Science at UT Dallas, the Erik Jonsson School Research Initiation Chair, and the Director of the Human Language Technology Institute at UT…
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Dr. Lingming Zhang Wins Google Backing for App Project
Dr. Lingming Zhang Wins Google Backing for App Project A UT Dallas scientist is one of eight researchers worldwide to be awarded a grant from Google to pursue software engineering and programming languages research. Dr. Lingming Zhang, assistant professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, received a one-year Google…
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Dr. Yvo Desmedt Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
Dr. Yvo Desmedt Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts On January 21st, Dr. Yvo Desmedt was elected to become a Foreign Member of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, a prestigious academy consisting of three classes: Science, Humanities, Fine Arts, each class…
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HackUTD’16 Challenges 500 Students for 24 Hours of Ideas, Hacking, and Design
HackUTD’16 Challenges 500 Students for 24 Hours of Ideas, Hacking, and Design Five hundred students from across the nation convened at the UT Dallas Computer Science Department for the second year of HackUTD. Whereas last year’s HackUTD was open to only UT Dallas students, this year, the registration for HackUTD’16 was open to the public. The second HackUTD was…