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From the Chair: A Year for the History Books

12/20/2013 - Since our last newsletter, the UT Computer Science population has surged past 2,000 undergraduates--more than triple the enrollments when I started as chair five years ago--easily making us the largest computer science department among the nation’s top ten ranked programs. Read More

Game Changers: New Faculty

12/20/2013 - UT Computer Science is excited to welcome four new faculty members coming to campus in 2014. They all have incredibly impressive credentials and research experience, and we’re extremely grateful that they have chosen to join our family. Read More

Students Pitch Shark Tank’s Cuban at Demo Day

12/11/2013 - The fifth annual Demo Day, held Dec. 5, had a packed house in the LBJ Auditorium to hear a conversation between Cuban and Bob Metcalfe, professor of innovation at the Cockrell School of Engineering and director of Longhorn Startup. RetailMeNot CEO Cotter Cunningham also took the stage, and 14 student startups made presentations. Read More

David Zuckerman Elected ACM Fellow

12/10/2013 - Professor David Zuckerman has been elected to be an ACM Fellow for his contributions to randomness extraction, pseudo randomness, and their role in complexity theory. Read More

Ballard Wins Helmholtz Test-of-Time Award

12/09/2013 - Professor Dana Ballard, and his co-author Michael Swain, have won the Helmholtz Test-of-Time award. Read More

Dana Ballard Selected for 2014 Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award

12/09/2013 - Dana Ballard has been selected to receive the 2014 Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award from the University of California, Merced. Read More

Chandrajit Bajaj and Inderjit Dhillon Elected IEEE Fellows

11/25/2013 - Two of our distinguished faculty, Chandra Bajaj and Inderjit Dhillon, have been elected IEEE Fellows. Read More

CS Students Win 2nd Student Cluster Competition

11/23/2013 - Five UTCS students won the student cluster overall competition at the international SC conference for the second year in a row! Read More

Lili Qiu Named ACM 2013 Distinguished Scientist

11/20/2013 - Associate Professor Lili Qiu has been recognized as one of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) 2013 Distinguished Scientists. Her research focus is on internet and wireless networking. Qiu's current projects include Wireless Network Management, MIMO, and Content Distribution in Mobile Networks. Read More

TACC to Deploy Maverick for Interactive, Remote Visualization and Data Analysis

11/19/2013 - The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin, along with technology partners Hewlett-Packard and NVIDIA, today announced that in January 2014 they will deploy Maverick, a powerful, high-performance visualization and data analytics resource for the open science and engineering community. Read More