Category: Programs

CS Department Institutes the Research Excellence Scholarship Program for top 1st year PhD students This year the UT Dallas Computer Science Department established the Research Excellence Scholarship for 1st year Computer Science and Software Engineering PhD students. The PhD Admissions Committee selected five students from the fall 2015 incoming applicant pool to the PhD program […]

CS Department Hosts Three Conferences in October During the last two weeks of October, the CS Department at UT Dallas played host to three prominent computer science conferences. SecureComm 2015, the 11th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, took place from October 26th to the 30th. IEEE MASS 2015, the 12th […]

Texas Vets 1st to Test New Cyber Rehab Technology Starting in November, 25 Dallas-area veterans will be the first to try cutting-edge rehabilitation technology designed to transmit sensations of physical touch over the Internet, according to researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas who are leading the initial six-month trials. The project, dubbed the […]

CS Department Organizes a Bevy of Activities to Welcome Students to the New School Year This August marked the beginning of a new 2015 academic year for UT Dallas and the Computer Department. The UT Dallas Computer Science department welcomed 2,876 students, including 466 computer science/software engineering freshmen, with activities and events as a way […]

Computer Scientist Seeks Stronger Security Shroud for the Cloud Dr. Zhiqiang Lin, of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Dallas, is working to advance the field of cloud computing, and in the process, has developed a technique that allows one computer in a virtual network to monitor another for invasions or viruses. […]

Undergrad Research Matching Event gets Students Ready for UG Research Course UT Dallas’s Computer Science Department brought together its distinguished Computer Science/Software Engineering faculty and invited ambitious undergraduate students with high GPA’s to participate in the Undergraduate Research Matching Event as a prelude to the Undergraduate Research in Computer Science course. Dr.’s Linda Morales and Janell Straach, both UT Dallas CS professors and the […]

Institute of Data Analytics Signs Project Extension with QuEST Forum The Institute of Data Analytics, part of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Dallas, has signed a 3-year project extension with QuEST Forum to manage data for the TL 9000 quality standard. QuEST Forum is a global association of the […]

UT Dallas Center for CS Outreach Codes with K-12 Campers for the Summer of 2015 This summer students from all over North Texas and beyond ranging from ages five all the way to seventeen came to the UT Dallas Computer Science department to explore the world of Computer Programming. During the eleven weeks of summer […]

UT Dallas CS Dept. Gets Involved With The Open Source Community An Independent Studies course on cloud computing and networking (using OpenStack) was offered at the University of Texas at Dallas Computer Science Department in conjunction with Award Solutions, a company that provides training and consulting to employees of large companies. The instructor of the […]

Dr. Vincent Ng’s Group Advances the State-of-the-Art in Automated Essay Grading Dr. Vincent Ng, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas and a member of the UT Dallas Human Language Technology Research Institute, has been active in a range of research areas related to machine learning of natural languages, part […]