Ray Mooney

05/14/2026 - IN BRIEF: Prof. Raymond J. Mooney is retiring after nearly 40 years as a leading AI figure at UT Austin. A prolific researcher, he published more than 200 papers and earned fellowships from the most prestigious professional organizations in his field. Mooney plans to spend his retirement writing a popular science book that chronicles the 60-year history of natural language processing, tracing the science back to its 1951 origins.

07/19/2013 - UTCS's AI group enjoyed considerable success at this summer's conferences.

06/14/2013 - For all the progress we've made in IT over the last 50 years, there's one area of life that has steadfastly eluded the grasp of computers: understanding human language. Now, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are utilizing a Hadoop cluster on its Longhorn supercomputer to move the state of the art of language processing a little bit further.

02/11/2011 - IBM and eight universities from around the world will collaborate on developing the company's Watson supercomputer and the question-answering technology behind it. The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science which will collaborate on automated reasoning and common sense.

08/29/2007 - UTCS is pleased to note a number of recent, significant awards and honors. The department is deeply honored by the peer and public recognition of our work.

08/25/2004 - Sugato Basu, Misha Bilenko and Ray Mooney won the SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award for their paper "A Probabilistic Framework for Semi-supervised Clustering," presented at KDD2004, "the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining."