Kathryn McKinley Receives 2006 ACM Distinguished Scientist Award
11/01/2006 - Professor Kathryn McKinley has been named a 2006 ACM Distinguished Scientist.
Awards & Honors
Dhillon receives SIAG/LA Prize
07/27/2006 - Professor Inderjit Dhillon has received the 2006 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Linear Algebra Prize (SIAG/LA Prize) along with co-author, Professor Beresford Parlett for their paper entitled, "Orthogonal Eigenvectors and Relative Gaps.
Don Towsley receives IEEE award
07/24/2006 - Former UTCS student Don Towsley is the recipient of the 2007 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award.
University of Texas at Austin Computer Sciences Professor Receives 2006 Maurice Wilkes Award
06/20/2006 - r. Doug Burger, professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has received the 2006 Maurice Wilkes Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Computer sciences student awarded $50,000 by Interactive Brokers Group
04/24/2006 - Texas-Patrick Christmas, a graduate student in computer sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded $50,000 from Interactive Brokers Group (IBG), for winning its electronic trading Olympiad for colleges.
Boyer, Kaufmann and Moore awarded the 2005 ACM Software System Award for the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover
03/21/2006 - Professors Robert Boyer and J Strother Moore and Senior Research Scientist Matt Kaufmann, all from the University of Texas at Austin Computer Sciences Department, have been awarded the 2005 Software System Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for their work on the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover.
UTCS Wins the “2005 Everybody WINS Award”
10/06/2005 - Women in Natural Sciences presented the 2005 Everybody WINS Award to the Department of Computer Sciences, in recognition and appreciation of the department’s commitment to best practices in the recruitment and/or retention of women and underrepresented minorities.
Six named distinguished teachers at The University of Texas at Austin
07/11/2005 - Six faculty members from The University of Texas at Austin have been selected for membership in the university’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers. The academy is intended to recognize and enhance teaching, particularly at the undergraduate level.
The Clare Boothe Luce Professor in CS at UT Austin
05/01/2005 - UTCS Wins Clare Boothe Luce Professorship.
Professor Simon Lam and UTCS alumni share the 2004 ACM Software System Award
03/10/2005 - Secure Network Programming, a system designed and implemented in 1993 by Professor Simon Lam and three former graduate students in the UTCS Networking Research Lab, won the 2004 Software System Award, given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).