Category: Students

UT Dallas Computer Scientists Create Video Game Mechanism To Detect Cheating Via Dallas Innovates | Written By Lauren Hawkins — Using popular video game Counter-Strike, researchers have created a cheat detection mechanism that can be used in a variety of games. The research is especially important as it has the potential to affect the near $1 billion esports […]

New CS Graduate Finds Success Bit by Bit with True Grit and Talent – PhD Pursuit Is Next for Scholar Who Followed Nontraditional Course Itzel Ramirez Tapia has been going through life at 100 miles an hour for as long as she can remember. As a mother, first-generation college student and underrepresented minority, she’s used […]

Computer Scientists Launch Counteroffensive Against Video Game Cheaters University of Texas at Dallas computer scientists have devised a new weapon against video game players who cheat. The researchers developed their approach for detecting cheaters using the popular first-person shooter game Counter-Strike. But the mechanism can work for any massively multiplayer online (MMO) game that sends […]

UT Dallas Announces Class, Campus Plans for Spring 2021 Semester UT Dallas students like finance freshman Christa York can choose to live on campus and take face-to-face, online and hybrid classes, or live at home and take a full course load online next spring. The spring semester will begin Jan. 19, and the last day […]

Culture of Value Micro-grant Fuels Second Annual Art of Kindness Competition Student art contest hosted by Kindness Enterprise at the Center for BrainHealth, in collaboration with ATEC and Computer Science – all with UT Dallas The City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture has awarded a Culture of Value micro-grant to a UT Dallas […]

A Day in the Life of a UT Dallas Computer Science Student Via Study International — A PhD is like a full-time job; for 26-year-old Takshak Desai from India, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), it happens to be one that he enjoys — a lot. Desai’s weekdays start at […]

UT Dallas SE PhD Alumni, Dr. Oscar Chaparro, Earns the 2020 David Daniel Thesis Award UT Dallas Software Engineering Ph.D. Alumni, Dr. Oscar Chaparro, was named one of two students to earn this year’s David Daniel Thesis Award. The award is supported by an endowment established in 2006 by Dr. David Daniel, president emeritus of […]

Summer Coding Camps Move to New Platform with Same Fun for Computer Fundamentals Coding camps at The University of Texas at Dallas are helping area school children sharpen their computer literacy and skills through interactive online classes this summer. The camps are the brainchild of Dr. Jey Veerasamy, senior lecturer in computer science and director […]

UT Dallas CS Salutes the Hard Work of the Spring 2020 Graduates with a Unique Online Experience When the COVID-19 pandemic forced college seniors across the globe to finish their final semester online, it dramatically altered one of the most significant events of their lives: their college graduation ceremonies. However, UT Dallas refused to let […]

Graduating Software Engineering Student Veteran Discovers Perfect Balance in Service, Studies Software engineering senior and student veteran Yugesh Taksari has managed to balance his duties in the Army Reserve with his coursework at The University of Texas at Dallas — all while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, he has spent one weekend […]