Computer Science

09/10/2012 - AUSTIN, Texas – Renowned French mathematician and engineer Francois Baccelli joins The University of Texas at Austin this fall as the first Simons Chair in Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Baccelli is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a cutting edge researcher at the intersection of mathematics, telecommunications and network information theory. As part of the appointment, he will develop a new Center in Information and Network Science.

09/05/2012 - A website devoted to covering the world of soccer adds a pinch of science by covering Robocup.

09/05/2012 - AUSTIN, Texas–The UT^2 game bot, created by computer scientists Jacob Schru, Igor Karpov and Risto Miikkulainen, won the Humanlike Bot Competition at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012).

08/06/2012 - UT President Bill Powers gives praise to Brent Waters of the College of Natural Sciences for receiving a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Mathematician Alessio Figalli also gets a shout-out.

08/01/2012 - The Economist speaks with Dr. Peter Stone about how making sporting robots can aid in using them for rescue missions.

08/01/2012 - Forbes reports on research done at UT, with colleagues in China and Taiwan, to create a nano laser device.

07/25/2012 - By David Maly, The Daily Texan, 7/18/2012

07/23/2012 - By Katie Thompson, the Career Design Center Elynn Lee is a Software Development Engineering (SDE) intern at Amazon on the Kindle Reader Framework team. This is her second internship, her first one being at Facebook in Palo Alto, California. She is simultaneously doing research on a SRC-URO fellowship in Computational Epidemiology.

07/19/2012 - By Katie Thompson, the Career Design Center Parth Upadhyay is a Software Development Engineering (SDE) intern at Facebook on the Real Time Infrastructure team. This is his second internship. His first internship was at Bloomberg in New York City, New York.

07/03/2012 - The Austin Business Journal reports on our robot squad’s triumph in Mexico City.