Category: Competition

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 CS Students Take First Place at Smart Cities Hackathon Two computer science students from The University of Texas at Dallas recently won a first-place award at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for their Alexa-based tool that maps safety on the street. Junior Pablo Sarquis Peillard and sophomore Raviteja Lingineni were on a five-member […]

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 […]

Dr. Page and His Programming Team Place Fifth in the ACM ICPC South Central Regional Programming Contest On October 28th and 29th, four UT Dallas teams competed in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) for the South Central Region. This is the most intellectually demanding programming contest for university students, as well as the largest worldwide programming contest. Regional Contests from all over […]

North Texas High Schoolers Compete in the Fall 2016 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Contest For more than a decade, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department has been conducting a statewide “Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Contest.” The contest, which follows ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) style, is […]

UT Dallas CS Student and IBM Watson Intern Shares the Details of His Summer Internship and His Team’s Award Winning Robot Poker Players AI Project This summer, Indervir Banipal, a UT Dallas CS student, was invited by IBM Watson to take part in a summer internship at their Research Triangle Park Campus in Durham, North […]

Gil Popilski, CS Sophomore, Crowned Co-Champion at the 117th US Open Chess Tournament Via UT Dallas News Center – UT Dallas chess team player and Grandmaster Gil Popilski was crowned co-champion at the 117th annual U.S. Open after tying for first at 8-1 with Grandmaster Alex Shabalov. The tournament, held July 30-Aug. 7 in Indianapolis, included 389 […]

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 […]

22 Teams Present Their Senior Capstone Projects at the UTDesign Spring’16 CS Expo Twenty-two teams of senior UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering students gathered on May 6th to present their UTDesign senior capstone projects. In order to graduate, all students in the UT Dallas Computer Science bachelor’s program are required to complete a one-semester, team-oriented capstone UTDesign project during […]