Archive for January, 2018

BIG DATA ANALYTICS FOR CYBER SECURITY: DEFEATING CYBER ATTACKERS By: Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, UT Dallas Like many application domains, more and more data are collected for cyber security. Examples of these collected data include system logs, network packet traces, account login formation, etc. Since the amount of data collected is ever increasing, it has become impossible […]

CLOUD COMPUTING, FOG COMPUTING, AND BIG DATA: LESSONS FROM THE FASHION INDUSTRY By Dr. Ravi Prakash, UT Dallas Every thirty years or so corduroys become fashionable. Raid your parents’ old suitcases and grandparents’ trunks. You will find that the clothes that were fashionable when they were young are in, once again. One can either attribute this […]

31 Senior CS/SE Teams Present Their Industry Sponsored Projects at the UTDesign CS Fall’17 Expo Every semester, UT Dallas Computer Science (CS) and Software Engineering (SE) seniors come together one final time before graduation to present their final capstone project at the biannual UTDesign Computer Science Expo. Last December, thirty-one teams ranging from three to five […]

Blockchain and Cryptographic Systems Student Club Helps Members Find Jobs in New Industry Via UT Dallas Mercury | Cindy Folefack – Bitcoin gained international attention in early December when it experienced a meteoric rise in value, quickly followed by a nearly 50 percent drop. While one UT Dallas professor has written the currency off as a […]

Five Computer Science Professors and their Students Receive Best Paper Award at International Conferences in Fall 2017 UT Dallas Computer Science faculty members are world-renowned for their research and scholarship. The CS Department ranks within top 50 on csrankings.org (2008-2018 period).  Fifteen of its faculty members hold the prestigious NSF CAREER Awards, and three of […]

Dr. Alvaro Cardenas Talks With D Magazine about Cyber Security and The World of Corporate Cyber Security in Dallas-Fort Worth Via D Magazine | By Danielle Abril | Published In D Ceo January-February 2018 – In the increasingly dangerous world of cybercrime, Dallas-Fort Worth cybersecurity professionals are on the defense. But how much protection is enough? All it took was […]

Dallas News – Coding Clubs Give Young Dallas-Area Students a Head Start on Technology, Life Skills Via Dallas News | Elvia Limón, Communities Writer — Hemant Pacha hopes to be a doctor and a part-time video game designer when he’s older. But until then, the 11-year-old is keeping busy by learning how to code his own mobile video […]

UT Dallas Becomes 1 of 9 Schools Recognized Internationally for CS Team’s Invention to Detect Car Crashes Via UT Dallas Mercury | Ayoung Jo –  A team of computer science students were recognized in an international competition after developing a device detecting car crashes and alerts emergency services automatically. The achievement makes UT Dallas one […]

UT Dallas CS Grad Student, Kruthika Vishwanath, Discusses How She Used Social Media To Prepare For The Grace Hopper Celebration Conference Below is a personal blog is written by UT Dallas CS Graduate student, Kruthika Vishwanath, about her experiences attending the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Conference over the past few years and how others can prepare […]

UT Dallas CS Hosts the 2017 Flagship ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security Via EurekaAlert – The Association for Computing Machinery has a longstanding interest in computer security, and improving the security of computing systems is increasingly essential for modern life. The 24th annual ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2017), a […]