10/21/2024 - UT Computer Science mourns the loss of Professor Emeritus E. Allen Emerson, winner of the most prestigious award in computer science and a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin since the early 1980s, who died on October 15 after an extended illness."I'm very sad to learn of Allen's death, he was a good friend and a great scientist,” said Don Fussell, Chair of the Department of Computer Science. “His work was a huge step forward in the development of tools that help designers create systems with known, verifiable properties."Read More
10/10/2024 - Kara Swisher, award-winning author of “Burn Book”, sits down to talk about her concerns about big tech companies, how technology can be weaponized, and how AI cannot replace human creativity.Read Article
10/02/2024 - Computer Science and Mathematics senior Alan Baade really enjoys spending hours on problems.Especially the particularly hard ones, he said. Spending 40 hours on one equation with a small break for sleep somewhere in the middle is rewarding to him.“I think it's because you can tell at the end of this you are going to understand the material,” Baade said. “You're going to understand computers.”Read More
09/26/2024 - Marc Airhart sits down with journalism professor Robert Quigley to talk all about AI and journalism. They talk about AI-generated news, misinformation, and how can AI play a role in the news industry.Read Article
09/25/2024 - Biotech advances from UT’s new Deep Proteins group are changing the game with help from artificial intelligence.Working as a chemist in Houston, Danny Diaz spent a lot of time plodding his way through crosstown traffic, pondering how to speed up his research.“I realized that my impact in the short term would be limited to the amount of chemistry experiments I could do with my hands,” he recalled.Read More
09/24/2024 - The job of building computer networks that train and run large AI models is becoming increasingly complicated because traditional network designs can’t operate at the higher speeds that the AI workloads require and need to be tuned to a variety of communication endpoints (such as CPUs, graphics processing units and AI accelerators) that have widely different characteristics, including data generation speeds. Moreover, AI workloads require advanced network monitoring capabilities to quickly diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks.Read More
09/24/2024 - The 2024-2025 rankings tout undergraduate computer science at The University of Texas at Austin as among the ten best nationally.Read More
09/20/2024 - On Thu, Sep 19, 2024, the UT Programming Team competed at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2023-24 48th World Finals hosted by the Kazakhstan Competitive Programming Federation in Astana, Kazakhstan.Read More
09/18/2024 - The University of Texas at Austin has been selected to lead the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins, a new $20 million research initiative focused on using AI to explore the universe’s biggest mysteries, from dark matter to the origins of life. Greg Durrett, Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT, is a co-investigator on this groundbreaking project, further cementing UT’s leadership in AI research.Read Article
09/12/2024 - With AI now being easily accessible to the public, should AI be regulated? If so, how? Marc Airhart sits down with lawyer and UT Law lecturer Matthew Murrell to talk about the risks unregulated AI pose, ChatGPT training data, and if regulation could stifle innovation and competition. Read Article
