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Dr. Kamil Sarac Discusses the Recent Internet Connection Issues as the New School Year Begins Via Dallas Morning News — Virtual learning sputters to a halt in schools across North Texas after hardware crash at regional hub. More than 50 school districts in a nine-county area, including Collin and Dallas Counties, ran into connectivity problems Thursday morning. […]

Dr. Gopal Gupta talks with NBC DFW about Autonomous Semi-Trucks Hitting North Texas Roads Via NBC DFW News – Interview By Diana Zoga — They don’t get distracted and they don’t get tired behind the wheel – that’s the idea behind autonomous semi-trucks. Aurora, the latest tech company to announce it is testing autonomous vehicles in […]

Dr. B. Prabhakaran, professor of computer science and director of the UT Dallas Multimedia and Computer Graphics Lab, and a team of researchers led the collaboration of the first-ever, trans-pacific collaborative plant walk. The Trans-Pacific Collaborative Mixed Reality Plant Walk involves three different locations (or sites), three different time zones, on two different continents.

Dr. Emily Kyle Fox Earns NSF CAREER Award for His Designs on More Efficient Algorithms Dr. Emily Kyle Fox, assistant professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas, recently received a five-year, $586,654 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to explore how the […]

How To Protect Yourself from Cyberattacks at Home The COVID-19 pandemic has led to new cybersecurity threats as more people work from home, children spend more time online and scammers target taxpayers’ stimulus payments. Cybersecurity expert Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Dallas, shared some tips for protecting […]

Software Project Aims To Keep Patient Data Protected in COVID-19 Research The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for sharing patient data to help scientists learn more about the virus and how to stop it from spreading. One key ethical issue, however, is how much information can health providers disclose to researchers without violating […]

Three UTD CS Professors are Among This Year’s UTD Office of Research Seed Grant Winners Last month, the UT Dallas Office of Research named this year’s seed grant winners. Among the list of Seed Program for Interdisciplinary Research (SPIRe) recipients are three UT Dallas Computer Science Professors, Drs. Vincent Ng, Murat Kantarcioglu, and Jessica Ouyang. […]

Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Discusses Whether Stablecoins are the Future of the Crypto Space Via E-Crypto News — The stable coins vs. other tokens battle has been raging on for the better part of five years now. This has left many wondering if for some reason stable coins are the future of the crypto space. E-Crypto News […]

Researchers Chart Vital Territory with COVID-19 Data Dashboards To contribute to the public battle with COVID-19, University of Texas at Dallas faculty, staff and students have built websites that track current coronavirus health data and model future scenarios. Researchers from the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication (ATEC), the School of Economics, Political and […]

Not Just Any Science: Computer Science – Getting a BS CS or BS SE @ UT Dallas Technology is increasingly impacting our lives, from smartphones, social media, devices such as Alexa, the sharing economy of Uber, Airbnb, etc., to the promise of self-driving cars and artificial intelligence. What is common among all these technological advancements […]