Category: Outside News

Dr. Kevin Hamlen Talks With FOX 4 News about DeSoto and Lancaster Emergency Siren Hacking Via FOX4 News | By FOX4News.com Staff — City officials in Lancaster and DeSoto face a lot of questions about the network of warning sirens that was hacked early Tuesday — but they’re not willing to talk about it. Officials would […]

Self-Syncing Stoplight Technology, Developed by UT Dallas CS Professor, Can Be Used in Any City That Deploys Programmable Traffic Controllers with Internet Access Via Dallas Innovates | Dave Moore — Go Time: Traffic-Control Signals Cut Stoplight Wait by 40% in Richardson What would you do with the time lost waiting for traffic lights to change? Some […]

Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Talks with Fox 4 News About How Phone Providers are Trying to Tackle the Robocaller Problem “It’s easy for the spammers to set up shop in a different location or change their tactics.” Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu  Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu’s research focuses on creating technologies that can efficiently extract useful information from any data […]

New USPTO Director, North Texas Experts Tackle Business of AI, Emerging Tech Via DallasInnovates.com | By Payton Potter – As artificial intelligence takes on bigger roles in business, the U.S. Patent Office, industry leaders, and academics work to understand the technology. United States Patent Office Director Andrei Iancu joined four artificial intelligence experts Friday morning in Dallas to jumpstart […]

Dr. Kantarcioglu Talks With CBS DFW About Smart Home Systems VIA CBS DFW | By Aparna Zalani –  If you are wondering what the home of the future looks like… look no further than the voice activated device nearest you. It will most-likely include SIRI or Alexa. Last week- Amazon unveiled an Alexa- controlled microwave […]

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 […]

Computer Science Grad Wins OZY Genius Award for Advising App James Griffin BS’18 describes himself as shy, but ask him, “What’s new?” and his smile lights up the room. “I just won an OZY award,” said Griffin, a 21-year-old entrepreneur who graduated magna cum laude in May with a computer science degree from the Erik Jonsson School of […]

Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu Talks with the Texas Standard about Smart Speakers and their Potential Privacy Threats Via The Texas Standard | Shelly Brisbin – It remains to be seen whether smart speakers like those sold by Google and Amazon will have a transformative impact in our lives. But some 47 million people in the U.S. have […]

Professors Cardenas and Thuraisingham Join the New NSA Lablet on CPS Security Via Vanderbilt University News – Cyber-physical systems let you analyze Fitbit data on a smartphone. They tell your house to bump up the thermostat before you get there. They run traffic lights. Mass transit. Electrical grids. It’s not a question about whether these […]