Category: Clubs

Blockchain and Cryptographic Systems Student Club Helps Members Find Jobs in New Industry Via UT Dallas Mercury | Cindy Folefack – Bitcoin gained international attention in early December when it experienced a meteoric rise in value, quickly followed by a nearly 50 percent drop. While one UT Dallas professor has written the currency off as a […]

WWC and Jonsson School Alumni Relations Sponsor Two Separate Networking Events for CS & SE Students This fall, two separate speed networking events were held with UT Dallas CS Alumni and tech industry members, one was hosted by the UT Dallas student Women Who Compute (WWC) student organization and the other hosted by the UT […]

HackUTD’17 Motivates 500 Students For 24 Hours With Big Ideas, Virtual Reality, Creativity, And Design The Third Annual HackUTD 24-hour hackathon was held March 4th and 5th with approximately 500 students participating from all over the nation. The HackUTD event was organized by the UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) under the guidance of UT […]

UT Dallas AI Society Hosts Its First Annual 24-Hour HackAI Hackathon Last fall, the UT Dallas Artificial Intelligence Society (AIS) hosted its first Annual 24-Hour HackAI Hackathon. The inaugural HackAI brought in 160 RSVP’s with approximately 90 students attending the event. The participants were grouped into teams of up to four. At the end of the 24-hour period, 18 projects had been successfully completed. […]

UT Dallas Cyber Security Celebrates Its 6th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week The UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) in conjunction with the UT Dallas Computer Science Department hosted their 6th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week (TexSAW 2016) in November 2016. More than 50 students participated from nine schools including UT Dallas, Abilene Christian […]

The Women Who Compute (WWC) Club Organizes Events to Promote Women in Computing and Technology At UT Dallas, both the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and the UT Dallas Computer Science strive to promote a strong sense of community amongst the female student body by working with UT Dallas clubs and outside […]

UT Dallas CS Department Welcomes In The New School Year With An Assortment Of Student Activities This past August marked the beginning of a new 2016 academic year for the UT Dallas campus full of eager students ready to start their academic careers. The UT Dallas Computer Science Department was ready and waiting to welcome […]

Codeburners: A 16-Year Old Competitive Coding Club for UT Dallas CS Students Since its inception over 16-years ago, the Codeburners (pdf) club has garnered over 500 members while under the supervision of Dr. Ivor Page, the club’s faculty supervisor and a UT Dallas Computer Science Professor of 35 years. The Codeburners is a group of […]

Izuchukwu “Izu” Elechi, Software Engineering 2016 Graduate, Speaks at the CS Commencement Ceremony Do work you’re proud of. Do work you’re passionate about. Leave the world a better place than you found it, no matter what the scale is. For those who could not attend the Spring 2016 UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering […]

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 […]