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Graduate Research – Distributed Systems
Graduate Research – Distributed Systems During the Friday mixer on 9/5/2014, in the Computer Science Department at UT Dallas, Joseph Beshay, Brooks McMillin, and Swair Shah talked about their research on Distributed Systems. Their adviser is Dr. Ravi Prakash. A summary of their presentation is included below. TCP Optimization for LTE networks LTE vastly increases the…
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High School Women Have Fun While Learning to Write Computer Software
High School Women Have Fun While Learning to Write Computer Software For one week, 24 high school girls attended a one-week girls camp at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTDallas) where they learned to write software programs and have a great time. Most of the girls had NO programming experience. Graduate and undergraduate Computer Science…
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Moses Ike: An Impressive Scholar
Moses Ike: An Impressive Scholar After graduating from high school, Moses Ike worked as a Coca-Cola delivery person from 2009 to 2012. He used and sharpened his social skills as he met with a wide variety of people. He had always done well in math, but those skills were not used. While still working full-time…
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Alumnus Finds Bright Side of Success with ‘Dark Room’ Game App
Alumnus Finds Bright Side of Success with ‘Dark Room’ Game App Amir Rajan BS’06, who graduated with a degree in software engineering, is not sure how or why his app for “A Dark Room” became so popular. After working full time since he was a student, Amir Rajan BS’06 needed a break. He decided to quit…
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High-Tech Speech Treatments Receive Boost from Grants, Teamwork
High-Tech Speech Treatments Receive Boost from Grants, Teamwork Dr. B. Prabhakaran from the Computer Science Department at UT Dallas, is part of the team that is giving a boost to High-Tech Speech Treatments. Dr. Thomas Campbell, executive director of the Callier Center, and his colleagues are using electromagnetic articulography data to create a real-time computerized representation…
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New Shape of UTDesign Program Reflects Growing Company Support
NEW SHAPE OF UTDESIGN PROGRAM REFLECTS GROWING COMPANY SUPPORT UTDesign students Carlos Caicedo-Narvaez, Casio Travesi and James Smiley work on their eBike project. Texas Instruments sponsored the project and is one of the companies that has donated equipment to the new UTDesign studio. Growing support for the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science’s award-winning senior design program is…
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Robotic Art – STEM Camp
Robotic Art – STEM Camp Robotic Art- STEM Camp will introduce students to common sensors and motors, simple microprocessors and programming robots to turn inputs into actions. Students will build robotic “kinetic sculptures” (or whatever they want). Students will also spend time working with real robots in UT Dallas Robotics Lab. Instructor: Dr. Nick Gans, Dr. Gans is…
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One-Day Workshops for Business Professionals
One-Day Workshops for Business Professionals Dr. Jey Veerasamy is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science (CS) Department at UTDallas. Most schools and many parents in the Dallas area are familiar with the computer software classes, workshops, and classes he organizes for students of all ages. These classes are taught by graduate students from the…
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Campus to Welcome Newest McDermott Scholars This Fall
Campus to Welcome Newest McDermott Scholars This Fall The UT Dallas McDermott Scholars Program has selected 25 students to make up the 2014 incoming class. The entering cohort, the program’s 14th class, was selected from nearly 1,600 high school students from 36 states and four countries who had initially expressed interest in the program. Fifty-nine applicants…
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Executive Masters Program Graduates The First Cohort of Students
Executive Masters Program Graduates The First Cohort of Students In June 2014, the Computer Science Department at UTDallas graduated its’ first cohort from the Executive Masters Program. For 20 months, a cohort of seven students spent their weekends taking classes to give their careers a boost and earn a masters degree. The mission of the…
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Dallas region sees growth in software and mobile app development talent
Dallas region sees growth in software and mobile app development talent Projekt 202 CEO David Lancashire says his firm, which develops Web, mobile and workplace software applications, has hired 21 people in the Dallas area this year, a mix of software architects, developers and user experience experts. When content management startup ContentGuard decided to move…
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Pittsburgh cybersquad leads way in fighting cybercrime
Pittsburgh cybersquad leads way in fighting cybercrime Above, U.S. attorney David J. Hickton takes questions from the media on the recent cyberespionage case at FBI headquarters on the South Side. At left is Scott C. Smith, FBI special agent in charge, and right are J. Keith Mularski, FBI supervisory special agent, and Jimmy Kitchen, assistant…