Archive for 2017

Dr. Harabagiu and CS PhD Student, Travis Goodwin, Receive the Homer R. Warner Award at the 2017 AMIA Annual Symposium Via UT Dallas News Center – Travis Goodwin BS’11, MS’13, a computer science PhD student at UT Dallas, and Dr. Sanda Harabagiu, professor of computer science and Research Initiation Chair in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering […]

Computer Science Undergraduate Students Help Professor Reconstruct Apollo Mission Recordings  Via Dallas Innovates – Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have taken a giant step in making audio recordings of the U.S. Apollo lunar missions available for all mankind in a five-year project that overcame many technical challenges. In 2012, researchers at the Center […]

WWC and Jonsson School Alumni Relations Sponsor Two Separate Networking Events for CS & SE Students This fall, two separate speed networking events were held with UT Dallas CS Alumni and tech industry members, one was hosted by the UT Dallas student Women Who Compute (WWC) student organization and the other hosted by the UT […]

Fall’17 Grace Series Presents Three Inspirational Speakers from State Farm, USAA, and UT Dallas This semester, the fall 2017 Grace Series Talks featured three inspiring members of the tech community, Dr. Farokh Bastani, UT Dallas CS Professor, Excellence in Education Chair, and Director of the UT Dallas site of the NSF Net-centric and Cloud Software […]

UT Dallas CS Researchers Named Most Influential in Field Via Jonsson School News – Multiple Computer Science Department faculty from The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science have been named to the AMiner Most Influential Scholar Annual List, which recognizes the world’s top-cited research scholars – from both industry and academia – in […]

UT Dallas CS Hosts IoT Conference for Academics, Industry Members, and Students Earlier this semester, the UT Dallas CS Department hosted a one-day Internet of Things (IoT) Conference for students, academics, and industry members. The IoT Conference’s mission was to provide undergraduate students, graduate or PhD students, academics, and engineers from industry with hands-on knowledge […]

Dr. Sergey Bereg Utilizes Computational Geometry Research for Musicological Analysis of the Spanish Flamenco Dance Dr. Sergey Bereg, UT Dallas CS Professor and founding member of the Dallas Institute for Interactive and Spatial Computing (UT-DIISC), traveled to Spain this past summer to take part in the International COFLA: Computational Analysis of Flamenco Music  research project. […]

400 High School Students Compete in the Fall’17 Battle of the Brains: High School Programming Contest For more than 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 […]

UT Dallas CS Students Win Facebook, Microsoft Awards at HackTX 17 Via UT Dallas Mercury | Noumika Balaj – Two UT Dallas student teams were declared winners of three spot prizes at HackTX 17, the largest annual hackathon in Texas on Oct. 28. One of the teams won Facebook’s “Community Building” award for building Friendzy […]

UT Dallas CS Comets Place 2nd Among 73 Teams in the Regional ACM Programming Competition On November 4th of this year, UT Dallas Competitive Programming Teams competed and won second place at the ACM Regional Intercollegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The 2nd place winning team consisted of Darrin Wiley, Terrence Park, Walter Han. Out of 73 […]