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First Bytes 2012
First Bytes Summer Camp
The tenth annual First Bytes Summer Camp, sponsored by UTCS, kicked off on June 17 on the university campus. The free, weeklong camp showcases the potential of a rewarding career in technology to selected Texas high school girls. Campers work together on programming language labs and logic games, see surgical robots in action, meet professional computer scientists, get career mentoring, play games, enjoy campus life and get a taste of what it’s like to have a fascinating, well-paying job. Read More
University of Texas at Austin Team Wins Robot Soccer World Championships in Two Divisions
UT Austin Villa Standard Platform League RoboCup World Champion Team
AUSTIN, Texas — UT Austin Villa, a team of computer science students led by professor Peter Stone, won two 2012 Robot Soccer World Cup division championships during RoboCup 2012 last week in Mexico City.The annual tournament, founded in 1997 to foster innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics research, is often touted as the world’s biggest robotics and artificial intelligence event. Read More
UT robots win soccer championship in Mexico City
UT Austin Villa, a team of robots led by University of Texas computer scientists, took home two 2012 Robot Soccer World Cup division championships during the RoboCup 2012 in Mexico City this month. Read More
The Department of Computer Science Tweaks Curriculum to Be More Flexible
The Department of Computer Science Tweaks Curriculum
The Department of Computer Science will decrease the number of required classes needed to obtain a degree from the department, a move some faculty hope will allow students to specialize in their interests and experience more while attending school. Read More
UTCS Professors and Alum Win Best Paper Award
Don Fussell, Calvin Lin, 2010 UTCS Ph.D. graduate Paul Navratil, and Hank Childs of University of California, Davis won the Best Paper Award at the 12th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization. Read More
Alum Arvind Narayanan to be Princeton Tenure-track Assistant Professor
UTCS alum Arvind Narayanan, who completed his Ph.D. in 2009, will be starting in the fall at Princeton as a tenure-track assistant professor. Read More
William Cook Wins Best Paper Award at ECOOP
Associate Professor William Cook won the Best Paper award at the 2012 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP). Read More
Computer Science Camp is Geared to Girls
Event: First Bytes, An Innovative Summer Program in Computer Science to Promote Interest in Technology in Teenage Girls When: June 17–22, various times Where: Various locations on The University of Texas at Austin campus (see below for details) and across Austin Read More
Lorenzo Alvisi Appointed Visiting Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Professor Lorenzo Alvisi has been appointed Visiting Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Read More
Univ. of Texas group speeds up drug discovery with supercomputers
FierceBiotechIT | By Ryan McBride For years, drug researchers have tapped computers to take serendipity out of the discovery equation, and a group from the University of Texas at Austin has advanced computational drug discovery further with updated image-reconstruction and modeling techniques, according to the university. Read More

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