Posts Tagged ‘Virtual Reality’

UT Dallas CS Students Win Smart Cities Competition Using AI to Address School Shootings Research professor Marjorie Zielke PhD’07 and a company founded by computer science senior Ashlesha Nesarikar have both won the city of Richardson’s Smart Gigabit Communities development challenge. The challenge is part of US Ignite’s encouragement for participating cities to create Smart City applications addressing […]

Students’ Entrepreneurial Venture Receives Support from the UT Dallas CS Department The UT Dallas Computer Science Department recently instituted the Software Startup Launch Track to motivate computer science and software engineering students to become entrepreneurs. Under this program, student engagement with entrepreneurship starts from the freshman or sophomore year itself, and culminates in a startup housed […]

International Researchers and Industry Specialists Explore Latest Research in Interactive and Spatial Computing Last April, the UT Dallas Institute of Interactive and Spatial Computing (UT-DIISC) held its second International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC). IWISC is an international workshop that provides a forum for international researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss state-of-the-art research and concepts within the field of interactive […]

Prof. Prabhakaran Shares 3D Immersive Tele-Rehabilitation Research at Capitol Hill Via Jonsson School News – Dr. B. Prabhakaran, professor of computer science, and a team of researchers recently shared their work with U.S. congress and senate members in Washington D.C. With advanced 3D modeling, virtual and mixed reality and networking technologies, Prabhakaran has developed remote physical therapy […]

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 […]

UT Dallas Computing Scholars Celebrate Success with Internships and Research Opportunities The Computing Scholars Honors Program (CS2) began in the fall of 2013. It was designed to attract students with excellent academic records and provide them a cohort elite style of classes taught by our best instructors at a deeper level of theory and mathematics. Our […]

CS Professor, Dr. Ryan McMahan Comments on How Virtual Reality is Gaining Traction in Healthcare Industry Via The Huffington Post – Before carrying out a neurosurgery procedure, Dr. Neil Martin and his team at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center take a test drive through the patient’s brain. Using a controller, the team zooms around blood […]

Dr. Ryan McMahan, Virtual Reality Researcher and CS Professor Wins NSF Career Grant My argument is that virtual reality will never be as realistic as the real world. But there are things we can do in VR that you can’t do in the real world – things that can improve the training process. A prestigious […]

UT Dallas CS and Samsung Join Forces to Offer First Ever Mobile VR Course This past fall, UT Dallas, in collaboration with Samsung Electronics America, provided UT Dallas Computer Science students the opportunity to participate in an in-depth Virtual Reality (VR) course. Samsung donated 30 Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition head-mounted displays (HMDs) along with 30 Samsung […]

UT-DIISC Holds Their Inaugural Conference, the International Workshop on Interactive & Spatial Computing (IWISC 2015) The newly established University of Texas at Dallas Institute on Interactive and Spatial Computing (UT-DIISC) held its first International Workshop on Interactive and Spatial Computing (IWISC 2015). The workshop was held in Dallas, TX, over the first weekend in December. […]