Category: Competition

Chess Team Makes Right Moves at Pan-Am, Advances to Final Four For the 17th time in 20 years, The University of Texas at Dallas chess team will travel to New York to participate in the 2020 Final Four tournament. The finals berth comes after the team placed fourth in the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship this week. […]

UT Dallas Competitive Programming Team takes 2nd Place at ICPC South Central USA Regional Contest On November 9th of this year, the UT Dallas Competitive Programming Teams competed and won second place at the ICPC South Central USA Regional Contest (SCUSA). The 2nd place winning team consisted of Darrin Wiley, An Nguyen, and Duy Vu. Our […]

Chess Team Conquers Belgrade in Cup Match, Prepares for Pan-Am For the second year in a row, The University of Texas at Dallas chess team defeated the University of Belgrade in the teams’ annual competition. Six of the team members are either computer science or software engineering majors and three of them are grandmasters and three of […]

CS Student Entrepreneurs Bring Big Ideas to Pitch Competition Finals Computer science graduate students Shobhana Ganesh and Anish Hegde pitched ResumePuppy, a tool that helps job applicants improve their odds of landing interviews, during the 2019 Big Idea Competition. Their team won the competition’s $25,000 first-place prize. A résumé service that helps job applicants keep […]

Student Hackathon Experience: All Freshmen Team Win 2nd Place at T-Mobile Hacktober Hackathon A freshman CS team at UT Dallas consisting of Supratik Pochampally, Khalid Hossain, Cady Baltz, and Christina Abraham recently competed in the T-Mobile Hacktober Hackathon and finished in 2nd place.  Below is a short story written by Supratik Pochampally about his time […]

300+ High Schoolers Compete at the Fall 2019 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition The Fall 2019 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition was held on November 2nd, with State Farm Insurance sponsoring the event. Registration for the Fall 2019 competition was free, thanks to the sponsorship. The contest drew more than 300 […]

Dr. Kevin Hamlen Sets Spaceflight Simulation Game World Record Computer science professor Dr. Kevin Hamlen was searching for the fastest route to a human colony 22,000 light years away in the game Elite Dangerous when the challenge started to look similar to a theory he teaches his students. Hamlen, who was playing with his 6-year-old […]

Ultimate Victory: CS & Engineering Students Esports Team Wins Super Smash Bros. National Title The University of Texas at Dallas earned its first athletics national championship last month, and it was its newest squad that secured the title — the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate team. The esports team traveled to Massachusetts to compete in the […]

UT Dallas CS and IEEE Reliability Society Host The 2nd Annual Contest on Software Testing Software plays an integral part of our daily lives because of its near universal influence on our increasingly technology-dependent society. Within the past decades, we have utilized software to improve our efficiency, reliability, and safety in production, business, life, etc. […]

UT Dallas Chess Team Comprising of 3 Grandmasters & 1 International Master CS/SE Majors Takes 3rd Place at Final Four Tournament in Big Apple Update 4/15/19: The UT Dallas chess team defeated a solid Harvard University squad and finished in third place at the 19th annual President’s Cup collegiate chess tournament April 6 and 7 […]