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Cyber security Institute to Celebrate Its 10th Anniversary with Events
Cyber security Institute to Celebrate Its 10th Anniversary with Events In 2004, to address the increasing attacks to the nation’s computers, communications systems and infrastructure, UT Dallas became proactive in cybersecurity education and research by establishing what has become the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI). Since then, it has grown into one of…
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Women Who Compute (WWC) Students at UT Dallas Make a Difference
Women Who Compute (WWC) Students at UT Dallas Make a Difference This year, Make a Difference Day was held on Saturday, 10/25/2014. Students at UT Dallas participated in a common mission with millions of other volunteers throughout the world to improve the lives of others. The mission statement on the Make A Difference Day website states:…
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2nd Annual Teacher Inspiration Award Ceremony
2nd Annual Teacher Inspiration Award Ceremony The 2nd Annual Teacher Inspiration Award Ceremony were held by the Computer Science Department at UT Dallas on Friday, 10/24/2014. Inspiration Awards were given to teachers who inspired Computer Science students at UT Dallas to pursue an education in Computer Science (CS). Teachers were nominated by freshmen students from…
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Helping Computers to Understand Human Language
Helping Computers to Understand Human Language The research in Dr. Yang Liu’s Speech and Language Processing Lab reflects the myriad of problems humans encounter when understanding language. Written communication tends to be more formal than verbal communication. Verbal communication includes more slang and sentence fragments. Text communication includes standard and nonstandard abbreviations along with misspelled words and…
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Summer Research Program for Undergraduates
Summer Research Program for Undergraduates The Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas conducts a ten-week summer research program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for undergraduate students. For the summer class of 2014 (pictured above) the focus was on “software safety” however, the technology and skills learned by the students…
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Recent CS Research Associate from UT Dallas Wins 2014 Emerging Leader Award
Recent CS Research Associate from UT Dallas Wins 2014 Emerging Leader Award Thamar Solorio, 2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE Award, is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior to this position, she held a post-doctoral Research Associate…
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Binary Code Reuse: A Dynamic Binary Analysis Approach
Binary Code Reuse: A Dynamic Binary Analysis Approach Junyuan Zeng, a PhD graduate student in the Computer Science (CS) department at UT Dallas, is developing an efficient and effective method to convert low level binary code into high level C code. Typically, computer software is developed using a high level language (source code such as…
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14th International Conference on Quality Software
14th International Conference on Quality Software At the QSIC 2014, Dr. Way Kuo gave the keynote speech about critical findings on nuclear and renewable energies. He is the President and University Distinguished Professor of City University of Hong Kong, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions, and Reliability Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. Copies of his book, Critical Reflections…
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$3.9 Million Award Bolsters Cybersecurity Scholarship Program
$3.9 Million Award Bolsters Cybersecurity Scholarship Program Dr. Kamil Sarac, associate professor of computer science, is principal investigator and director of UT Dallas’ Scholarship for Service program. A cybersecurity scholarship program in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science has received an award of more than $3.9 million from the National Science Foundation.…
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Code JAM at UT Dallas
Code JAM at UT Dallas On Saturday (9/20/2014) from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM, the Computer Science Department at UT Dallas held a Code JAM for all ages. Young coders came with their parents and high school coders came with their friends. The Code JAM was organized by Dr. Jey Veerasamy, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Center for…
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Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud
Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud Three PhD Computer Science graduate students at UT Dallas, Harichandan Roy, Erman Pattuk, and Fahad Shaon, pictured, have been working under the direction of Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu to improve data security and privacy in the cloud. At the weekly Computer Science Mixer on 9/19/2014, they talked about their research. Their…
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Good Food, Good Friends, and Good Advice for Freshmen
Good Food, Good Friends, and Good Advice for Freshmen The Computer Science Department at UT Dallas invited all Freshmen CS students to an informal dinner where they had a chance to meet other students and mingle with some faculty members. Dr. Gopal Gupta, head of the CS Department, talked about the benefits of a degree in…