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UT Dallas CS department celebrates Inspiration Awards Luncheon with High School Computer Science Teachers
UT Dallas CS department celebrates Inspiration Awards Luncheon with High School Computer Science Teachers Last month on October 30th, high school teachers, counselors, and mentors traveled from as far as Cypress, College Station, and Pearland, TX, to the UT Dallas campus to accept their 2015 Computer Science Inspiration Award at the Computer Science Inspiration Awards Luncheon. Despite heavy rain that…
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7th Annual E-Plan Users Group Meeting held in North Carolina
7th Annual E-Plan Users Group Meeting held in North Carolina The seventh annual E-Plan User’s Group Meeting was held in Raleigh, NC on November 4-5, 2015. The meeting, which garnered more than 130 people from nearly 15 states, including approximately fifty private industry attendees, twenty first-responders, and others from state and local emergency planning organizations. The conference was organized by UT…
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Twenty-Seven CS Students Celebrate ‘Our Time to Lead’ at the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology
Twenty-Seven CS Students Celebrate ‘Our Time to Lead’ at the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology This October, Twenty-Seven UT Dallas female Computer Science and Software Engineers and five UT Dallas CS faculty members, made their way to Houston, TX, for the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology (GHC) Conference. The…
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CS Department Institutes the Research Excellence Scholarship Program for top 1st year PhD students
CS Department Institutes the Research Excellence Scholarship Program for top 1st year PhD students This year the UT Dallas Computer Science Department established the Research Excellence Scholarship for 1st year Computer Science and Software Engineering PhD students. The PhD Admissions Committee selected five students from the fall 2015 incoming applicant pool to the PhD program…
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CS Department Hosts Three Conferences in October
CS Department Hosts Three Conferences in October During the last two weeks of October, the CS Department at UT Dallas played host to three prominent computer science conferences. SecureComm 2015, the 11th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, took place from October 26th to the 30th. IEEE MASS 2015, the 12th…
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Drs. Hamlen and Kantarcioglu Discuss the IRS’ Tax Refund Fraud Detection Systems Vulnerability to Hackers
Drs. Hamlen and Kantarcioglu Discuss the IRS’ Tax Refund Fraud Detection Systems Vulnerability to Hackers | TBO – Tampa Tribune | The new computer system the IRS is using to detect identity theft refund fraud may be vulnerable to hackers, according to a recent inspector general report, which cited delays in patching known cyber security issues. The IRS…
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NSF Grants Bring Together Computer, Political Scientists for International Conflict Projects
NSF Grants Bring Together Computer, Political Scientists for International Conflict Projects UT Dallas political and computer scientists have received nearly $2 million from the National Science Foundation to collaborate on two projects focused on international conflict. The first grant includes $1.5 million to create a research tool that uses big data to provide updated information…
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UT Dallas & UTA iPerform Center Creates Opportunities for Universities and Industry Researchers
UT Dallas & UTA iPerform Center Creates Opportunities for Universities and Industry Researchers University faculty, Industry members, and students met at the University of Texas at Dallas on October 9th for the 2nd Semi-Annual Industrial Advisory Board Meeting of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) iPerform Center for Assistive Technologies (AT)…
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Texas Vets 1st to Test New Cyber Rehab Technology
Texas Vets 1st to Test New Cyber Rehab Technology Starting in November, 25 Dallas-area veterans will be the first to try cutting-edge rehabilitation technology designed to transmit sensations of physical touch over the Internet, according to researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas who are leading the initial six-month trials. The project, dubbed the…
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IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2015) this October 21st-23rd
IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2015) this October 21st-23rd The third IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2015) will be taking place in Dallas, Texas, this month on October 21-23, 2015. The conference, which is sponsored by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Computer Society and the Technical Committee on Intelligent…
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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…