Archive for September, 2014

Code JAM at UT Dallas On Saturday (9/20/2014) from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM, the Computer Science Department at UT Dallas held a Code JAM for all ages.  Young coders came with their parents and high school coders came with their friends.  The Code JAM was organized by Dr. Jey Veerasamy, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Center for […]

Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud Three PhD Computer Science graduate students at UT Dallas, Harichandan Roy, Erman Pattuk, and Fahad Shaon, pictured, have been working under the direction of Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu to improve data security and privacy in the cloud. At the weekly Computer Science Mixer on 9/19/2014, they talked about their research.  Their […]

Good Food, Good Friends, and Good Advice for Freshmen The Computer Science Department at UT Dallas invited all Freshmen CS students to an informal dinner where they had a chance to meet other students and mingle with some faculty members.  Dr. Gopal Gupta, head of the CS Department, talked about the benefits of a degree in […]

Graduate Research – Distributed Systems During the Friday mixer on 9/5/2014, in the Computer Science Department at UT Dallas, Joseph Beshay, Brooks McMillin, and Swair Shah talked about their research on Distributed Systems.  Their adviser is Dr. Ravi Prakash.  A summary of their presentation is included below. TCP Optimization for LTE networks LTE vastly increases the […]