05/08/2018 -
UT College of Natural Sciences News | October 16, 2017
Nature has a way of making complex shapes from a set of simple growth rules. The curve of a petal, the swoop of a branch, even the contours of our face are shaped by these processes. What if we could unlock those rules and reverse engineer nature's ability to grow an infinitely diverse array of shapes?
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04/10/2018 -
By Pallab Ghosh, BBC News
Researchers in Texas are developing robots that have minds of their own.
The scientists are creating systems that can learn for themselves and be able to operate in the home, the workplace and even on the sports field.
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12/19/2017 -
Undergraduate student Ashlie Martinez has been selected as an awardee of the 2018 Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Ashlie is a senior in the Turing Scholars Honors program in UT Computer Science.
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10/06/2017 -
UTCS professor Peter Stone was interviewed as part of a documentary called Digital Transformation: Visions of Nations, Companies, and People, a film exploring the future of technology through interviews with entrepreneurs, futurists, scientists and more.
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08/10/2017 -
Source: The Daily Texan
The computer simulations of artificial intelligence researcher Katie Genter could help robot birds lead real flocks away from dangerous situations.
Genter, who presented her Ph.D. dissertation on flocking behavior and other research in UT’s Learning Agents Research Group to a panel of computer scientists this May, wanted to know if she could control the movement of virtual flocks by adding certain autonomous agents into the mix.
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