TXCS Researchers Win Best Paper Awards at Evolutionary Computation Conferences
07/28/2020 - Texas Computer Science (TXCS) is proud to announce that two research teams have received awards at preeminent evolutionary computation conferences.
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UT Austin to Partner in New NSF Quantum Computing Institute
07/22/2020 - Original story by Marc G Airhart, College of Natural Sciences
Investigating How to Make Robots Better Team Members
07/17/2020 - Imagine that you are a robot in a hospital: composed of bolts and bits, running on code, and surrounded by humans. It’s your first day on the job, and your task is to help your new human teammates—the hospital’s employees—do their job more effectively and efficiently. Mainly, you’re fetching things. You’ve never met the employees before, and don’t know how they handle their tasks. How do you know when to ask for instructions? At what point does asking too many questions become disruptive?
Power of DNA to Store Information Gets an Upgrade
07/15/2020 - Article by Esther R Robards-Forbes | College of Natural Sciences
BigHPC Texas/Portugal Partnership Forged to Transform Data Science
06/24/2020 - Note: the original article was written for and published on the Texas Advanced Computing Center website. Authorship credit goes to Faith Singer-Villalobos.
TXCS Researchers Design Evolutionary Algorithms for Neural Networks
05/28/2020 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving field, with advancements occurring every day. While the idea of an artificial intelligence system may conjure images of an autonomous machine that rattles out facts like a hi-tech encyclopedia, complex AI exists only because a countless number of talented individuals dedicate their time toward refining these systems.
New Sandboxing Approach in Web Browser Increases Security
02/25/2020 - UPDATE (Jan. 18, 2021): The new approach to securing web browsers described below is now part of the latest version of the Firefox browser, available to all users.
Changing the Evolution of Database Applications
02/04/2020 - Most websites that we use every day are database applications, which means that they involve software that interacts with an underlying database. As these websites evolve to meet the demands of their users, so must the software and the database schema, i.e., the model that determines the layout of the data. This process is extremely time-consuming and error-prone, because developers not only need to transform the data, but also re-implement all the affected parts of the application.
Professor Scott Aaronson Named as ACM Fellow
12/10/2019 - Texas Computer Science professor Scott Aaronson has been named as a 2019 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow. ACM is the world’s largest computing society and is dedicated to advancing the field. Each year, the organization honors members that have made a significant contribution to the field of computing and information technology.