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Recent Achievements of the UT Dallas Computer Science Faculty The UT Dallas Computer Science Department houses 86 accomplished faculty members with multifaceted talents, each of whom have distinguished themselves in their individual field. Twelve CS faculty members have earned the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, many of them hold professorial chairs, several of them serve as […]

Mobile App Developer Listed as the #1 Career in CNNMoney’s Top 100 Careers Via CNNMoney – With 2017 just starting, CNNMoney/PayScale‘s released its list of top 100 careers with the biggest growth, greatest pay and most satisfying work. At the top of the list, CNNMoney and PayScale have listed Mobile App Developer as the best job in America with […]

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 […]

UTD Broadens Efforts to Teach Computer Skills to Children, Teachers Across North Texas The University of Texas at Dallas is expanding its ongoing efforts to promote computer science education to K-12 students — and teachers — throughout North Texas. The University currently coordinates programs that range from providing training and professional development for science, math […]

36 Students Head Off to Houston for the 2016 International Grace Hopper Conference This October, 36 young women majoring in computer science and software engineering and six UT Dallas CS faculty members, made their way to Houston, TX, for the annual International Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology (GHC) Conference. The Grace Hopper Conference is designed to bring the research and career interests […]

Dr. Latifur Khan’s Data Mining Research Group Makes Advances in Data Stream Mining Dr. Latifur Khan, Professor of Computer Science at UT Dallas and Director of the UT Dallas Data Management and Analytics, and his research group have been doing research in data science for a long time. One of their research focus is data stream mining, where they have […]

Data-Mining Work Offers Insight into Detecting Multiple Hackers Security efforts to combat hackers usually focus on one method of attack, but computer scientists at UT Dallas have developed a strategy more effective at tackling various types of attacks. Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and director […]

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 […]

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 Faculty Organize VINCI’16 This past September, the UT Dallas Computer Science department hosted the Ninth Annual International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI’16) in Dallas, TX. This symposium is an international forum for researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art in visual communication theories, designs, and applications. UT Dallas […]