Archive for 2015

Google University Outreach visits UT Dallas CS dept. for a Week Last October, Google paid a visit to the UT Dallas Computer Science department for a week of activities, luncheons, tech talks, and Q&A’s with the team as part of their Google University Outreach Program. Currently, the UT Dallas CS department has over sixty alumni working for Google. With the large number […]

UT Dallas CS department celebrates Inspiration Awards Luncheon with High School Computer Science Teachers Last month on October 30th, high school teachers, counselors, and mentors traveled from as far as Cypress, College Station, and Pearland, TX, to the UT Dallas campus to accept their 2015 Computer Science Inspiration Award at the Computer Science Inspiration Awards Luncheon. Despite heavy rain that […]

7th Annual E-Plan Users Group Meeting held in North Carolina The seventh annual E-Plan User’s Group Meeting was held in Raleigh, NC on November 4-5, 2015. The meeting, which garnered more than 130 people from nearly 15 states, including approximately fifty private industry attendees, twenty first-responders, and others from state and local emergency planning organizations. The conference was organized by UT […]

Twenty-Seven CS Students Celebrate ‘Our Time to Lead’ at the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology This October, Twenty-Seven UT Dallas female Computer Science and Software Engineers and five UT Dallas CS faculty members, made their way to Houston, TX, for the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology (GHC) Conference. The […]

CS Department Institutes the Research Excellence Scholarship Program for top 1st year PhD students This year the UT Dallas Computer Science Department established the Research Excellence Scholarship for 1st year Computer Science and Software Engineering PhD students. The PhD Admissions Committee selected five students from the fall 2015 incoming applicant pool to the PhD program […]

CS Department Hosts Three Conferences in October During the last two weeks of October, the CS Department at UT Dallas played host to three prominent computer science conferences. SecureComm 2015, the 11th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, took place from October 26th to the 30th. IEEE MASS 2015, the 12th […]

Drs. Hamlen and Kantarcioglu Discuss the IRS’ Tax Refund Fraud Detection Systems Vulnerability to Hackers | TBO – Tampa Tribune | The new computer system the IRS is using to detect identity theft refund fraud may be vulnerable to hackers, according to a recent inspector general report, which cited delays in patching known cyber security issues. The IRS […]

NSF Grants Bring Together Computer, Political Scientists for International Conflict Projects UT Dallas political and computer scientists have received nearly $2 million from the National Science Foundation to collaborate on two projects focused on international conflict. The first grant includes $1.5 million to create a research tool that uses big data to provide updated information […]

UT Dallas & UTA iPerform Center Creates Opportunities for Universities and Industry Researchers University faculty, Industry members, and students met at the University of Texas at Dallas on October 9th for the 2nd Semi-Annual Industrial Advisory Board Meeting of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) iPerform Center for Assistive Technologies (AT) […]

Texas Vets 1st to Test New Cyber Rehab Technology Starting in November, 25 Dallas-area veterans will be the first to try cutting-edge rehabilitation technology designed to transmit sensations of physical touch over the Internet, according to researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas who are leading the initial six-month trials. The project, dubbed the […]