Archive for April, 2017

Dr. Alvaro Cardenas’ PhD Student, Junia Valente, Talks to Forbes About How Vulnerable Quadcopter Drones Are To Hacking Via Forbes – With so many reports of poor security on consumer drones, UAV enthusiasts would be forgiven for thinking manufacturers would have added mitigations against the most basic attacks. But, looking at one particularly popular model of […]

Biannual Battle of the Brains Programming Contest Challenges High Schoolers From 26 High Schools From All Over North Texas This spring the biannual Battle of the Brains High School Programming Contest brought in 100 teams from 26 different North Texas high schools. For more than a decade, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department has been […]

UT Dallas Computer Science Researchers Make Two Important Discoveries in Computational Geometry Dr. Benjamin Raichel, assistant professor of computer science, and his collaborators recently made two important discoveries in the area of computational geometry. Computational geometry is a field of study devoted to the development of efficient algorithms for problems which can be stated in […]

Google Visits With UT Dallas CS & SE Students for a Week of Google Tech Talks, Workshops, and Other Google Events Earlier this semester, Google paid a visit with their team of UT Dallas CS Google Alumni to the UT Dallas Computer Science department for a week of activities, tech talks, workshops, and Q&A’s as part of their Google University Outreach […]

UT Dallas CS Celebrates Pi Day With The Mathematical Sciences Department Earlier this month on March 19th, the UT Dallas CS Department and the Mathematical Sciences Department celebrated national Pi day with a series of lectures, pizzas, pies, mathematical interaction games, mathematical models, and other fun activities. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) […]

HackUTD’17 Motivates 500 Students For 24 Hours With Big Ideas, Virtual Reality, Creativity, And Design The Third Annual HackUTD 24-hour hackathon was held March 4th and 5th with approximately 500 students participating from all over the nation. The HackUTD event was organized by the UT Dallas Student Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) under the guidance of UT […]