Category: Programs

22 Teams Present Their Senior Capstone Projects at the UTDesign Spring’16 CS Expo Twenty-two teams of senior UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering students gathered on May 6th to present their UTDesign senior capstone projects. In order to graduate, all students in the UT Dallas Computer Science bachelor’s program are required to complete a one-semester, team-oriented capstone UTDesign project during […]

UT Dallas CS Partners with the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for a Special Track on Software Entrepreneurship The UT Dallas Computer Science Department in collaboration with the UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE), will be offering UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering undergraduate students aiming to venture into software-based startups, the […]

NCWIT Honors the Achievements of 15 North Texas Female High School Tech Enthusiasts The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) 2016 Award for Aspirations in Computing (AiC) honored fourteen female high school technologists and one educator from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex during a daylong celebration at the UT Dallas Campus. The NCWIT Award […]

Dr. Alvaro Cárdenas Gets CAREER Boost for Cyber Security Project Dr. Alvaro Cárdenas, assistant professor of computer science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his research on cyber-physical systems.  The award provides him with more than $500,000 in funding over five years.  […]

CS Department Places Record Number of Students in Internship Assignments Twice a year the Industrial Practice Programs (IPP) for the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science and the UT Dallas Career Center work together to hold the biannual Intern Fair for UT Dallas Computer Science and Engineering students where companies are invited to […]

CS & SE Seniors Present their Capstone Projects at the Fall 2015 UTDesign CS Expo UT Dallas Computer Science and Software Engineering seniors came together last December to present their capstone projects at the Fall 2015 UTDesign Computer Science Expo. Nineteen teams ranging from three to five members each participated in the UTDesign CS Expo. For one semester, both Computer Science and […]

Dr. Veerasamy talks with the Dallas Morning News and the Associated Press about Coding for Kids Dallas Morning News — When the last bell rings through the halls of Herfurth Elementary School, 10-year-old Savannah Schwarz races to the computer lab. She posts up outside the door in anticipation of coding club. The after-school sessions were […]

UT Dallas Cyber Security Institute celebrates its 5th Annual TexSAW The UT Dallas’ Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) in conjunction with the UT Dallas Computer Science department hosted their 5th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week (TexSAW) 2015. TexSAW 2015 gathered CS students from across Texas who were interested in pursuing computer security and […]

UT Dallas Coding Team Places Third in the ACM ICPC Regional Contest It took six local programming contests and eight Friday evening training sessions during the fall 2015 semester to train and select four teams who would compete for UT Dallas at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Regional Programming […]

Google University Outreach visits UT Dallas CS dept. for a Week Last October, Google paid a visit to the UT Dallas Computer Science department for a week of activities, luncheons, tech talks, and Q&A’s with the team as part of their Google University Outreach Program. Currently, the UT Dallas CS department has over sixty alumni working for Google. With the large number […]