Category: Outside News

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. […]

UTD CS Alumni Creates a Viral COVID-19 Visualization that Promotes Honest, Accessible, Transparent Access to Case Data In mid-March with less than 2,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States, UT-Dallas CS alumni Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider (BS’05, MS’06) had questions on the growth and spread of the soon-to-be pandemic.  Over a period of two days, […]

Universities the World Needs: UT Dallas Computer Science Via Study International — Throughout their University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) degree and after graduation, Ph.D. students from the Department of Computer Science are motivated to master all corners of computer science. Gbadebo Gbadero Ayoade, a UT Dallas Ph.D. in Computer Science graduate from Nigeria took […]

Jobs of the Future: The Hottest Areas of Tech Education Via Dallas Innovates || By Tara Nieuwesteeg — Here’s a list of some of the area’s most exciting programs, with the universities across North Texas that are shaping the talent of the future. Dallas-Fort Worth has more than 40 higher learning institutions, each with programs that incorporate on-the-job training […]

Dr. Alvaro Cárdenas Discusses His Lab’s Recent IoT Hacks with Newsweek Via Newsweek | Adam Piore — In 2009, just as consumers had begun to buy wifi-enabled thermostats and front-door cams and other early devices that now make up the “Internet of Things,” computer scientist Ang Cui had gotten the idea to scan the Web for “trivially […]

Dr. Zygmunt J. Haas Shares Five Things To Know About 5G Via The Gilmer Mirror — There’s a lot of talk about 5G, as this new generation of wireless technology begins to roll out. But what exactly is 5G and how is it different from 4G? And when will it become ubiquitously available? Dr. Zygmunt […]

UT Dallas Professor Helps Invent Traffic Lights That Talk to Each Other and Reduce Congestion Via Dallas Business Journal || Interview By Rob Schneider — Dr. Rym Zalila-Wenkstern and her team at the University of Texas at Dallas invented a smart traffic light system that allows traffic lights to communicate with each other and collaboratively adjusting the timing signals in real-time […]

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham talks with the CBSDFW 11 I-Team About the Controversial Hate Website 8chan Via CBSDFW.COM | Interview By Brian New – A day after a hate-filled screed allegedly linked to the El Paso mass murder suspect was posted on the website 8chan, the controversial site was knocked offline. The web security service Cloudflare announced it was […]

‘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. […]

Meet UT Dallas CS Alumni Michael Lewellen of Tarski Technologies in Richardson Via VoyageDallas Interview – Today we’d like to introduce you to Michael Lewellen the CEO and Founder of Tarski Tech. Michael, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far. I first […]