Archive for 2015

Dr. Veerasamy talks with the Dallas Morning News and the Associated Press about Coding for Kids Dallas Morning News — When the last bell rings through the halls of Herfurth Elementary School, 10-year-old Savannah Schwarz races to the computer lab. She posts up outside the door in anticipation of coding club. The after-school sessions were […]

Battle of the Brains: Fall 2015 High School Programming Contest For almost 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 a year at the […]

Washington Post’s CIO/CTO, Shailesh Prakash launches the UT Dallas CS Fall 2015 Distinguished Lecture Series On November 6th, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department’s Distinguished Lecture series featured Mr. Shailesh Prakash, Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief of Technology (CTO) at The Washington Post as the first speaker. Mr. Prakash holds a BS in Computer […]

Dr. Fred Schneider – The Fall 2015 Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series The UT Dallas Computer Science Department’s Distinguished Lecture series featured Dr. Fred B. Schneider on November 13th. Dr. Schneider is the chairman and Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, where he has been on the faculty since 1978. Dr. […]

CS Freshman Raviteja Lingineni wins First Place in the Business Idea Competition for Undergraduates From Indian food trucks to automated parking systems, UT Dallas students recently shared new business ideas that they hope will meet consumer needs, attract financial backers, and launch them into a successful career. Nearly 300 students participated in the 2015 Business […]

UT Dallas Cyber Security Institute celebrates its 5th Annual TexSAW The UT Dallas’ Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) in conjunction with the UT Dallas Computer Science department hosted their 5th Annual Texas Security Awareness Week (TexSAW) 2015. TexSAW 2015 gathered CS students from across Texas who were interested in pursuing computer security and […]

UT Dallas Coding Team Places Third in the ACM ICPC Regional Contest It took six local programming contests and eight Friday evening training sessions during the fall 2015 semester to train and select four teams who would compete for UT Dallas at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Regional Programming […]

CS Alumnus Helps Deal Winning Hand to Customers with their Tech Company UrComped Craig Shacklett MS’13 and Cale Sherry BS’10 help make their customers feel like winners even when they lose. The former students co-founded UrComped, a tech company that acts as an independent casino broker, helping its players maximize their comps at casinos and […]

Dr. Ranran Feng tells her story at the Fall 2015 Grace Series Lectures The UT Dallas Computer Science Department’s Grace Series Lectures continued with Dr. Ranran Feng as the featured speaker at the beginning of November. The objective of the Grace Series is to present a program of lectures about the role of women in […]

Cyber Security Institute and Information Assurance Information The UT Dallas Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI) currently includes eleven core professors conducting research in data security and privacy, software and language security, secure networks, secure systems and forensics, hardware security, information assurance, cryptography, control systems security, data mining for malware detection and security applications. […]