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2016 Grace Series Begins With Dr. Jo Zhang of Fujitsu Labs of America
2016 Grace Series Begins With Dr. Jo Zhang of Fujitsu Labs of America The UT Dallas Computer Science Department’s Grace Series Lectures ushered in the 2016 New Year this February with featured speaker, Dr. Qiong (Jo) Zhang, a PhD UT Dallas Computer Science Alumna and research scientist at Fujitsu Laboratories of America. The Grace Series…
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Alumnus Gives in Support of National Society of Black Engineers
Alumnus Gives in Support of National Society of Black Engineers During a pause from a busy workday, Niyi “John” Olajide BSTE’04 sits at a conference table overlooking the Dallas North Tollway to visit with four engineering students who want to know about his career journey. Olajide is young, successful and philanthropic: At 34 years old, he is…
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CS Department Places Record Number of Students in Internship Assignments
CS Department Places Record Number of Students in Internship Assignments Twice a year the Industrial Practice Programs (IPP) for the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science and the UT Dallas Career Center work together to hold the biannual Intern Fair for UT Dallas Computer Science and Engineering students where companies are invited to…
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Dr. Kevin Hamlen research to be published in the 2016 NSF I/UCRC Tech Breakthrough Compendium
Dr. Kevin Hamlen research to be published in the 2016 NSF I/UCRC Tech Breakthrough Compendium Cyber Attacks against government agencies, financial institutions, health care providers, and companies of all sizes have become more prevalent and devastating over the past decade. Researchers at UT Dallas have been actively researching ways to combat cyber attacks. This past January, the research of Dr. Kevin Hamlen, a…
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Prominent European Researcher, Dr. Luc de Raedt Delivers Opening CS Distinguished Lecture Series Talk for 2016
Prominent European Researcher, Dr. Luc de Raedt Delivers Opening CS Distinguished Lecture Series Talk for 2016 The Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series started the 2016 year with Dr. Luc de Raedt, professor of research at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Leuven, Belgium, prominent researcher from Europe, and an expert in intelligent systems, machine…
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UT Dallas CS Department Partners with IBM Watson to Offer an Undergraduate Course
UT Dallas CS Department Partners with IBM Watson to Offer an Undergraduate Course During the Fall 2015 semester, the IBM Academic Initiative and the Watson Academic Engagement collaborated with the UT Dallas Computer Science department to offer students the opportunity to enroll in the Fall 2015 Cognitive Course Leveraging Watson. The goal of the course…
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UT Dallas CS and Samsung Join Forces to Offer First Ever Mobile VR Course
UT Dallas CS and Samsung Join Forces to Offer First Ever Mobile VR Course This past fall, UT Dallas, in collaboration with Samsung Electronics America, provided UT Dallas Computer Science students the opportunity to participate in an in-depth Virtual Reality (VR) course. Samsung donated 30 Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition head-mounted displays (HMDs) along with 30 Samsung…
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CS & SE Seniors Present their Capstone Projects at the Fall 2015 UTDesign CS Expo
CS & SE Seniors Present their Capstone Projects at the Fall 2015 UTDesign CS Expo UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering seniors came together last December to present their capstone projects at the Fall 2015 UTDesign Computer Science Expo. Nineteen teams ranging from three to five members each participated in the UTDesign CS Expo. For one semester, both Computer Science and…
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UT-DIISC Holds Their Inaugural Conference, the International Workshop on Interactive & Spatial Computing (IWISC 2015)
UT-DIISC Holds Their Inaugural Conference, the International Workshop on Interactive & Spatial Computing (IWISC 2015) The newly established University of Texas at Dallas Institute on Interactive and Spatial Computing (UT-DIISC) held its first International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC 2015). The workshop was held in Dallas, TX, over the first weekend in December.…
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University Journey Took UT Dallas Computer Scientist Alumnus Beyond His Planned Path
University Journey Took UT Dallas Computer Scientist Alumnus Beyond His Planned Path Stepping onto the UT Dallas campus for freshman orientation, I had a goal: to learn all of the things I didn’t know as quickly as possible, and move on to The Next Thing. In my mind The Next Thing was a clear, tangible…
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Three-hundred Graduates attend the UT Dallas CS Fall 2015 Graduation Luncheon
Three-hundred Graduates attend the UT Dallas CS Fall 2015 Graduation Luncheon Friends, family, and UT Dallas Computer Science faculty and staff came together last December to celebrate the achievements of the UT Dallas Fall 2015 Computer Science and Software Engineering graduating class. To recognize the dedication and hard work of the fall 2015 graduating class, the UT…
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Dr. Veerasamy talks with the Dallas Morning News and the Associated Press about Coding for Kids
Dr. Veerasamy talks with the Dallas Morning News and the Associated Press about Coding for Kids Dallas Morning News — When the last bell rings through the halls of Herfurth Elementary School, 10-year-old Savannah Schwarz races to the computer lab. She posts up outside the door in anticipation of coding club. The after-school sessions were…