Category: Outreach

300+ High Schoolers Compete at the Fall 2019 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition The Fall 2019 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition was held on November 2nd, with State Farm Insurance sponsoring the event. Registration for the Fall 2019 competition was free, thanks to the sponsorship. The contest drew more than 300 […]

Youngsters’ Skills Take Flight at University’s Summer Coding Camps Eliana Lainez never thought she’d become a pilot. Yet the eighth grader from Fowler Middle School in Plano is not only flying an aircraft, but she also programmed it. Eliana is participating in one of The University of Texas at Dallas’ weeklong Summer Coding Camps. She joined other students, from fifth through 12th grade, in learning a new skill. “I’m learning how […]

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 […]

Computer-Savvy High Schoolers Compete at the Spring’19 Battle of the Brains: HS Programming Competition The Spring 2019 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition was held on April 6th, with State Farm Insurance sponsoring the event. Registration for the Spring 2019 competition was free, thanks to the sponsorship. The contest drew more than 117 […]

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 […]

The term “hacker” usually conjures up an image of a nefarious computer whiz secretively working in a dark room. But at Hacks for Humanity at The University of Texas at Dallas in October, that notion couldn’t have been further from the truth. Dozens of computer experts and nonexperts joined Arizona State University in tying technical […]

Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition Hosts Largest Contest in its History This October, the biannual Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Competition held one of the biggest competitions in its decade-long history. The contest drew in more 135 teams comprising more than 450 high school students from all over North Texas, […]

UT Dallas Program Aims To Close Gender Gap Through Connections, Inspiration Via Dallas Business Journal | Written By Bill Hethcock – Dallas Business Journal Staff Writer – The University of Texas at Dallas’ computer science department is aiming to inspire high school girls to choose and stay in technology careers through a program called Connect-Inspire-Guide. “There is a wide disparity […]

Dr. Janell Straach Talks with D Magazine About Closing the Gender Gap in Tech Via D Magazine | By Danielle Abril  – Companies seeking to bolster the pipeline of women in tech target education. Before Jaime Chambron was even 10 years old, she had already discovered she had an affinity for math and problem-solving. Her interests led her on […]