Category: Prospective Students

Blockchain and Cryptographic Systems Student Club Helps Members Find Jobs in New Industry Via UT Dallas Mercury | Cindy Folefack – Bitcoin gained international attention in early December when it experienced a meteoric rise in value, quickly followed by a nearly 50 percent drop. While one UT Dallas professor has written the currency off as a […]

Five Computer Science Professors and their Students Receive Best Paper Award at International Conferences in Fall 2017 UT Dallas Computer Science faculty members are world-renowned for their research and scholarship. The CS Department ranks within top 50 on csrankings.org (2008-2018 period).  Fifteen of its faculty members hold the prestigious NSF CAREER Awards, and three of […]

400 High School Students Compete in the Fall’17 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Contest For more than a decade, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department has been conducting a statewide “Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Contest.” The contest, which follows ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) style, is held twice […]

UT Dallas CS Ph.D. Graduates Land Jobs at Major Tech Companies, Universities, and Research Facilities From the Fall of 2016 to Summer of 2017, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department has graduated 23 Ph.D. students, four of whom have been women. These graduates have gone on to find jobs in prestigious universities, top tier research […]

CS Undergraduate Students Explore Joining Faculty Research with Networking Luncheon This past April, twenty UT Dallas Computer Science Undergraduate students were invited to take part in the UG Research Networking and Faculty Matching Luncheon. The luncheon brought together both UT Dallas’s distinguished computer science and software engineering faculty members and a select group of highly ambitious CS/SE undergraduate students. Students who attended […]

CS Seniors’ Capstone Projects Feature Cutting-Edge Innovations and Solutions for Top-Tier Companies Every semester, UT Dallas Computer Science (CS) and Software Engineering (SE) seniors come together one final time before graduation to present their final capstone project at the biannual UTDesign Computer Science Expo. This May, 25 teams ranging from three to five members each […]

UT Dallas and NCWIT Honor 30 North Texas High School Women For Their Outstanding Technical Accomplishments at the NCWIT Aspirations Awards Last March, as part of an ongoing effort to encourage more young women to choose careers in technology, the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) in conjunction with UT Dallas recognized thirty high […]

Google Visits With UT Dallas CS & SE Students for a Week of Google Tech Talks, Workshops, and Other Google Events Earlier this semester, Google paid a visit with their team of UT Dallas CS Google Alumni to the UT Dallas Computer Science department for a week of activities, tech talks, workshops, and Q&A’s as part of their Google University Outreach […]

HackUTD’17 Motivates 500 Students For 24 Hours With Big Ideas, Virtual Reality, Creativity, And Design The Third Annual HackUTD 24-hour hackathon was held March 4th and 5th with approximately 500 students participating from all over the nation. The HackUTD event was organized by the UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) under the guidance of UT […]

New Living Learning Community to Help Female Students Gain STEAM When Dr. Janell Straach took computer science courses at UT Dallas a few decades ago, there were very few female students in her classes. “I just accepted it as that’s the way it is. We all knew each other. You found each other and clung together,” she […]