Category: Industry

‘The Future of Police Training’: SURVIVR Uses Virtual Reality to Prep Officers for the Real World Via Dallas Innovates || By Payton Potter  Founded by a recent UT Dallas CS grad, Brian Hoang, VR training startup SURVIVR is working to change how law enforcement trains its officers, while cutting costs and saving lives along the way. […]

Spring’19 UTDesign CS Expo Showcases Cutting-Edge Senior Capstone Projects UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering seniors came together last May to present their capstone projects at the Spring 2019 UTDesign Computer Science Expo. Fifty-two teams ranging from three to five members each presented their final projects to a room full of their peers, UT Dallas […]

Student Chapter of the ACM at UT Dallas Expands With More Opportunities and New Initiatives for Students The Student Chapter of the ACM was founded in UT Dallas in the early 2000s. Since then, the official University of Texas at Dallas Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has grown by leaps and […]

UT Dallas CS Department Hosts AI Conference Focusing on Applications and Technical Foundations With Artificial Intelligence (AI) saturating many aspects of our lives (e.g., smart speakers, voice recognition) and the prediction that in the future AI will a playing a more significant role in our everyday lives, it’s no wonder why AI is so popular. […]

HackUTD’19: A 24-Hour Marathon of Student Innovation, Creativity, Learning, and Fun This past February, HackUTD, a 24-hour annual hackathon, organized by UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM in partnership with the Major League Hacking (MLH) Organization, was held in UT Dallas’s newest building, Engineering & Computer Science West. HackUTD ’19 was organized under the guidance […]

UT Dallas CS Organizes a 5-Day Workshop on Deep Learning Last January, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department hosted a deep-dive into deep learning with a Professional Development Workshop with Tarry Singh, the CEO, Founder, and AI Researcher at deepkapha.ai. Approximately, ninety people attended the 5-day workshop to learn about GANs, RNN, CNN & Deep Reinforcement Learning. The workshop drew in not […]

User Experience Conference Provides UX Enthusiasts With a Look Into the Exciting Future of UX Design Researchers, students, and industry professionals alike joined one another at the UT Dallas Computer Science Department for the 2019 Conference on User Experience (UX). The goal of the one-day conference was to provide a forum for UX Design enthusiasts […]

Self-Syncing Stoplight Technology, Developed by UT Dallas CS Professor, Can Be Used in Any City That Deploys Programmable Traffic Controllers with Internet Access Via Dallas Innovates | Dave Moore — Go Time: Traffic-Control Signals Cut Stoplight Wait by 40% in Richardson What would you do with the time lost waiting for traffic lights to change? Some […]

UT Dallas Hosts Third ARO Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning Last fall, Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, UT Dallas CS Professor and Director of the UT Dallas Data Security and Privacy Lab, hosted the Third Army Research Office (ARO) Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning (AML) at UT Dallas. The two-day workshop focused on the newly emergent and […]

UTDesign CS Capstone Projects Provide CS & SE Seniors with Real-World Experiences before Graduation The UTDesign Senior Capstone Project is the culmination of the undergraduate experience, where the knowledge students have gained throughout the course of their college education is applied to a major design project. The pinnacle of the experience is the UTDesign CS […]