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News and Events |
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| 6.22.2006 |
Burger wins Wilkes Award
Professor Doug Burger has won the prestigious Maurice Wilkes Award, given annually by the ACM to an outstanding computer scientist whose career began less than 20 years ago. Burger was cited for his pioneering work on the TRIPS processor, which is co-led by Professor Steve Keckler. |
| 5.20.2006 | Wang addresses commencement audience Senior Shan Wang was honored as the College of Natural Science's sole student commencement speaker, as chosen by a special faculty committee. Shan will be continue her studies in the fall at Stanford's PhD program in Computer Science. |
| 5.20.2006 | Three students named Dean's Honored Graduates
Mark Gebhart, Kevin Resnick, and Shan Wang were named Dean's Honored Graduates, the College of Natural Science's highest award for graduating students. Only 18 of the College's approximately 2000 graduates were so honored. |
| 3.22.2006 |
Boyer, Kauffman, and Moore win System Software
Award
Professors Bob Boyer and J Moore and senior research scientist Matt Kauffman have been awarded ACM's System Software Award-- given to an institution or individuals for developing software systems that have had a lasting influence-- for their work on the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover. |
| 3.15.2006 | UT Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg speaks |
| 3.3.2006 | Faculty defeats Turing Scholars in dodgeball (again)
In the second annual faculty-student dodgeball game, the faculty demonstrated that age and experience can trump youth and vigor, winning 8 games to 3. The faculty were represented by Doug Burger, Inderjit Dhillon, Steve Keckler, Calvin Lin, and Mike Scott, while the students were represented by a cast of thousands. The faculty are happy to report no serious injuries. |
| 1.19.2006 |
CS graduates in high demand
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 1 million new IT jobs in the next 10 years |
| 9.09.2005 | The Fall 2005 Turing Scholars
Newsletter
Take a look at what our students are up to! |
| 5.14.2005 | Program graduates first student
Ryan Holliday graduated in three years to become the department's first student to graduate with the Turing Scholars Honors designation. Ryan is now a software engineer at Microsoft in Redmond, WA. |
| 4.25.2005 | Cline named to Academy of
Distinguished Teachers
Professor Alan Cline has been the first CS professor inducted into UT-Austin's Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Each year, only 5 to 10 faculty are so honored. |
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| Sep 25 | Career Expo and FoCS brunch
8:30-10:30am Erwin Center |
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| Aug 29 | 6:00pm Gone to Texas | |
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| Aug 29 | Turing Scholars Orientation
3:00-5:00pm, Taylor 3.128 |
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