Category: Organizations

UTDesign Team Projects Ready to Soar for Spring Expo Competition The final results of the projects created by seniors in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science range from saving corporations money or employee time, to health applications such as a breast pump that allows a mother to assess the nutritional needs of her child, […]

NSF Brings Together Computer Scientists, Industry for New Tech Hub Computer scientists at UT Dallas hope that funding awarded by the National Science Foundation to create an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center will help the Dallas area become a research hub for technology that enhances human abilities. Like all I/UCRCs, the iPerform Center for Assistive Technologies to Enhance Human […]

National Center for Women & IT and Microsoft Research Sponsor UTD’s Tech Girls Summer Camp The National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT.org) and Microsoft Research has selected to sponsor the University of Texas at Dallas’ Connect-Inspire-Guide Camp for female freshman students. The NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund awards NCWIT’s Academic Alliance members at non-profit […]

Living Learning Community Host a 31-Hour Hackathon The CS Living Learning Community (LLC) and the CS department sponsored a Hackathon over the weekend of March 7th and 8th. The event started at noon on Saturday and ended early Sunday evening. The principal objective of the weekend Hackathon was to bring together CS students to develop […]

NCWIT Encourages Young Women through the Aspirations in Computing Program Twelve young female high school students received the Award for Aspirations in Computing from the NCWIT (The National Center for Women & Technology) in a day-long event held in late February. The NCWIT is a non-profit community of 600 universities, companies, non-profits, and government organizations […]

Cyber security Institute to Celebrate Its 10th Anniversary with Events In 2004, to address the increasing attacks to the nation’s computers, communications systems and infrastructure, UT Dallas became proactive in cybersecurity education and research by establishing what has become the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI). Since then, it has grown into one of […]

Women Who Compute (WWC) Students at UT Dallas Make a Difference This year, Make a Difference Day was held on Saturday, 10/25/2014.  Students at UT Dallas participated in a common mission with millions of other volunteers throughout the world to improve the lives of others. The mission statement on the Make A Difference Day website states: […]