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UT Dallas CS and IT Empowerment for Her Program Promote STEM Education for Middle School Girls Through Weekend Workshops Last January and February, Saumya Rawat, a senior at Dallas’ School of Science and Engineering Magnet, worked with Dr. Janell Straach, a CS Professor and the Director of the UT Dallas Center for Engaging Women in […]

UT Dallas CS Department Participates in the Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference Held at Stanford University This March, the Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference was held at Stanford University in California as well as at over 100 regional locations nationwide and was available via livestream. The regional sessions were hosted by […]

UT Dallas Team Wins Grand Prize at Texas A&M Hackathon Via UT Dallas Mercury | Noumika Balaji – A UTD team was declared the grand prize winner at TAMUHack 2018, the Texas A&M annual hackathon, for developing an app utilizing social media for first responders. The team also won the “Best Hack for Social Good,” sponsored by […]

UT Dallas Cyber Security Institute Hosts the 7th Annual Texas Security Awareness The UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) in conjunction with the UT Dallas Computer Science Department hosted their 7th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week (TexSAW) last semester. For two days, TexSAW brings together both Computer Science and Software Engineering students […]

UT Dallas CS and IEEE Reliability Society Organize IEEE Software Testing Contest Software plays an integral part in our everyday lives because of its near omnipresent influence on our increasingly technological society. Therefore, taking appropriate steps to apply software testing techniques is of utmost importance. To promote advanced software testing theory, techniques, and tools, the […]

31 Senior CS/SE Teams Present Their Industry Sponsored Projects at the UTDesign CS Fall’17 Expo Every semester, UT Dallas Computer Science (CS) and Software Engineering (SE) seniors come together one final time before graduation to present their final capstone project at the biannual UTDesign Computer Science Expo. Last December, thirty-one teams ranging from three to five […]

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 […]

UT Dallas CS Hosts the 2017 Flagship ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security Via EurekaAlert – The Association for Computing Machinery has a longstanding interest in computer security, and improving the security of computing systems is increasingly essential for modern life. The 24th annual ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2017), 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 […]

Fall’17 Grace Series Presents Three Inspirational Speakers from State Farm, USAA, and UT Dallas This semester, the fall 2017 Grace Series Talks featured three inspiring members of the tech community, Dr. Farokh Bastani, UT Dallas CS Professor, Excellence in Education Chair, and Director of the UT Dallas site of the NSF Net-centric and Cloud Software […]