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  • ACM UTD Named Top Chapter for School Service

    ACM UTD Named Top Chapter for School Service

    ACM UTD Named Top Chapter for School Service Recently, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) student chapter at The University of Texas at Dallas (ACM UTD) was recognized as the top ACM chapter for school service in 2023 and was awarded the 2022-2023 ACM Student Chapter Excellence Award for “Outstanding School Service.” Out of approximately…

  • City of Dallas likely targeted in ransomware attack, city official says

    City of Dallas likely targeted in ransomware attack, city official says

    City of Dallas likely targeted in ransomware attack, city official says Via Dallas Morning News — Dallas officials say the city likely was hit with a ransomware attack, affecting 311, the municipal court and other departments on Wednesday. Dallas chief financial officer Jack Ireland sent a message to the mayor and City Council on Wednesday…

  • Grace Series Talks Continue To Empower With Final Speaker Of Spring’23 Series

    Grace Series Talks Continue To Empower With Final Speaker Of Spring’23 Series

    Grace Series Talks Continue To Empower With Final Speaker Of Spring’23 Series The UT Dallas CS Department continued its Spring’23 Grace Series talks with Pallabi Parveen, a Principal-Big Data Software Engineer at AT&T. Pallabi earned her Ph.D. from UT Dallas while under the supervision of Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham. The Grace Series recognizes women and their accomplishments…

  • Handbook of Software Fault Localization by Professor W. Eric Wong

    Handbook of Software Fault Localization by Professor W. Eric Wong

    Handbook of Software Fault Localization by Professor W. Eric Wong The Handbook of Software Fault Localization: Foundations and Advances edited by Dr. W. Eric Wong, Professor and Director of the Software Engineering Program of the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas, and Dr. T.H. Tse, an Honorary Professor in Computer Science with The…

  • UTD To Honor Newest Group of Endowed Chairs, Professors

    UTD To Honor Newest Group of Endowed Chairs, Professors

    The University of Texas at Dallas will recognize 14 outstanding faculty members at its 2023 Investiture Ceremony, to be held April 14 in the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building Lecture Hall.

  • The Last Word: Dr. Kangkook Jee on How UTD Students Are Making Their Mark in National Competitions

    The Last Word: Dr. Kangkook Jee on How UTD Students Are Making Their Mark in National Competitions

    A team of UT Dallas students placed fourth in the U.S. in the 2022 National Security Agency (NSA) Codebreaker Challenge, which tasked college students with solving a fictional ransomware attack.

  • UT Dallas CS Hosts 2023 Spring IEEE International Contest on Software Testing

    UT Dallas CS Hosts 2023 Spring IEEE International Contest on Software Testing

    UT Dallas CS Hosts 2023 Spring IEEE International Contest on Software Testing The Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), in conjunction with the Technical Committee of System and Software Assurance of the IEEE Reliability Society (RS) and the RS Dallas Chapter, organized a very successful International Contest on Software Testing…

  • Dr. K. Truemper Publishes His Latest Book, Artificial Intelligence: Why AI Projects Succeed or Fail

    Dr. K. Truemper Publishes His Latest Book, Artificial Intelligence: Why AI Projects Succeed or Fail

    For almost 50 years, Dr. Klaus Truemper has worked at the University of Texas at Dallas: the first two decades in Operations Research and Mathematics, and then in Artificial Intelligence (AI). At present, he is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science. He recently published his AI insights and findings in the book Artificial Intelligence: Why AI Projects…

  • Chatbots Could Be The Next Big Hacking Tool—Here’s How To Defend Yourself

    Chatbots Could Be The Next Big Hacking Tool—Here’s How To Defend Yourself

    Researchers have found a way to make Bing’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ask for user information. The new method could be a convenient tool for hackers. There’s growing concern that chatbots could be used for malicious purposes, including scams.

  • Spring’23 Grace Series Continues to Inspire with Saritha Reddy

    Spring’23 Grace Series Continues to Inspire with Saritha Reddy

    Spring’23 Grace Series Continues to Inspire with Saritha Reddy As technology trends show, the tech industry is always one step ahead regarding innovation. However, one region seems to be lagging behind—gender diversity. The World Bank reports that globally women make up less than 40% of the global workforce. Women are consistently highly underrepresented in the technology field.…

  • ChatGPT: The strengths and limitations of the AI technology

    ChatGPT: The strengths and limitations of the AI technology

    ChatGPT: The strengths and limitations of the AI technology Via Fox4 News — FOX 4’s Brandon Todd talks with Jessica Ouyang from the UT-Dallas computer science department about the technology that has people talking. Watch the full interview Source | Fox 4 News About the UT Dallas Computer Science Department The UT Dallas Computer Science…

  • Understanding ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that’s gone viral

    Understanding ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that’s gone viral

    Understanding ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that’s gone viral Via Dallas Morning News — UTD scientists weigh in: What can ChatGPT be used for? And where does it make mistakes?  In November, the research company OpenAI released a bot called ChatGPT. The bot has since gone viral, and has been used to write code, poetry and…