Archive for 2014

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 […]

High School Women Have Fun While Learning to Write Computer Software For one week, 24 high school girls attended a one-week girls camp at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTDallas) where they learned to write software programs and have a great time. Most of the girls had NO programming experience.  Graduate and undergraduate Computer Science […]

Moses Ike: An Impressive Scholar After graduating from high school, Moses Ike worked as a Coca-Cola delivery person from 2009 to 2012.  He used and sharpened his social skills as he met with a wide variety of people.  He had always done well in math, but those skills were not used.  While still working full-time […]

Alumnus Finds Bright Side of Success with ‘Dark Room’ Game App Amir Rajan BS’06, who graduated with a degree in software engineering, is not sure how or why his app for “A Dark Room” became so popular. After working full time since he was a student, Amir Rajan BS’06 needed a break.  He decided to quit […]

High-Tech Speech Treatments Receive Boost from Grants, Teamwork Dr. B. Prabhakaran from the Computer Science Department at UT Dallas, is part of the team that is giving a boost to High-Tech Speech Treatments. Dr. Thomas Campbell, executive director of the Callier Center, and his colleagues are using electromagnetic articulography data to create a real-time computerized representation […]

NEW SHAPE OF UTDESIGN PROGRAM REFLECTS GROWING COMPANY SUPPORT UTDesign students Carlos Caicedo-Narvaez, Casio Travesi and James Smiley work on their eBike project. Texas Instruments sponsored the project and is one of the companies that has donated equipment to the new UTDesign studio. Growing support for the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science’s award-winning senior design program is […]

Robotic Art – STEM Camp Robotic Art- STEM Camp will introduce students to common sensors and motors, simple microprocessors and programming robots to turn inputs into actions.  Students will build robotic “kinetic sculptures” (or whatever they want).  Students will also spend time working with real robots in UT Dallas Robotics Lab. Instructor: Dr. Nick Gans, Dr. Gans is […]

One-Day Workshops for Business Professionals Dr. Jey Veerasamy is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science (CS) Department at UTDallas.  Most schools and many parents in the Dallas area are familiar with the computer software classes, workshops, and classes he organizes for students of all ages.  These classes are taught by graduate students from the […]