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New Digital Security Program Doesn't Protect as Promised
University of Texas at Austin scientists have shown that they can break "Vanish," a program that promised to self-destruct computer data, such as emails and photographs, and thereby protect a person's privacy. Read More
Career Brunch 2009
The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences (UTCS) Friends of Computer Sciences (FoCS) 2009 Career Brunch was held in conjunction with the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Career Expo on September 21, 2009 at the Frank Erwin Center. Read More
The 1910 Society Presents Conversations with Bob Taylor Co-sponsored by The Department of Computer Sciences Dell Distinguished Lecture Series
To celebrate the lead donation by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation for a new computer science building, the Department of Computer Sciences has inaugurated the Dell Distinguished Lecture Series. The Dell Lecture Series invites an international leader of the digital revolution to give a public lecture at The University and attend other events with university and business leaders. Read More
Robots Play Winning Soccer
Robots Play Winning Soccer
Texas Computer Science students are programming robots to play soccer... and winning. Current robots are only 2-feet high, but the goal is to develop robotic players large and skillful enough to beat a real-live World Cup team by 2050. Students from Texas Tech (TT) and The University of Texas at Austin (UT) use C++ to program robots to play without human interaction during the games. The robots play as a team and make individual decisions. Read More
2009 UTCS Hooding Ceremony
UTCS honored this year's Ph.D. graduates with its first annual hooding ceremony. Chair J Moore, clad in ceremonial kilt, performed the hooding. Graduate research advisers spoke of each graduate's special traits and accomplishments. Afterwards, a reception was held for graduates, faculty, friends and family. Read More
Good Bytes and Good Luck
The Department of Computer Science congratulates its graduating students of 2009. We wished them “Good Bytes and Good Luck” with a commencement celebration (C2) catered by Austin’s own Amy’s Ice Cream. Read More
Computer Science Student Wins $5,000 Michael H. Granof Outstanding Dissertation Award
Computer Science graduate student Benjamin Hardekopf was presented the $5,000 Outstanding Dissertation Award, which recognizes exceptional work by doctoral students. Read More
Neural Network Systems
Neural Network Systems
Uli Grasemann and Risto Miikkulainen are using their neural network system, DISCERN, to model what might be going on inside a schizophrenic brain. DISCERN can understand and produce natural language. Working with Ralph Hoffman, a psychiatrist at Yale, they have also been able to pair their neural network results with a study of human schizophrenics, and the similarities have been striking. Read More
GNU Creator Gives Talk on Copyright in the Age of Computer Networks
The Department of Computer Science welcomed Richard Stallman, founder of Free Software Foundation, to present his lecture, "Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks." Read More
New Computer Science Complex at The University of Texas at Austin Receives $30 Million Challenge Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex
AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas at Austin announced today (April 17) a $30 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, part of a $120 million capital campaign to construct a new building complex for one of the nation’s leading computer science programs. Read More

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