02/28/2012 -
Assistant Professor Pradeep Ravikumar has been selected for an NSF CAREER Award for his project entitled "CAREER: A New Neat Framework for Statistical Machine Learning." The CAREER awards recognize promising young faculty and supports their research with fiv
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02/15/2012 -
Congratulations to Kristen Grauman and Assistant Professor Michael Walfish! Both were recently awarded Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows. They will receive $50,000 over two years for the research of their choice. They are among 118 researchers to receive fellowships this year.
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02/06/2012 -
UTCS recognized scholarship recipients, scholarship donors, and Friends of Computer Science (FoCS) partners with a Scholarship Luncheon at the Alumni Center on February 1, 2012.
Thank you to our generous donors who make a difference in the lives of our students.
Friends of Computer Science (FoCS) partners, are denoted in bold.
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01/28/2012 -
At the Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments (VSTTE) conference, held as part of the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) in Philadelphia, UTCS's very own ACL2 team was awarded one of the two Gold Medals in the 2012 VSTTE verification competition.
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01/25/2012 -
UTCS is grateful to the following scholarship and fellowship donors whose partnerships with the department afford promising and deserving students the opportunity to study at a top-10 ranked department. These companies, foundations and individuals are crucial in enabling UTCS to recruit and retain top students.
Scholarship Donors:
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12/12/2011 -
Stephen Keckler, professor at The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science, was awarded Fellow status with a citation "for contributions to computer architectures and technology modeling."
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12/09/2011 -
Professor Inderjit Dhillon and Assistant Professor Pradeep Ravikumar, together with their postdoc Ambuj Tewari, had remarkable success at The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference this year. They submitted seven papers and all were accepted. NIPS's acceptance rate is about 20%. The papers are:
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12/02/2011 -
UTCS undergraduate students Ben Braun and Victor Vu have been selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition for 2012.
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11/28/2011 -
UTCS graduate Ken Calvert was elected to IEEE Fellow "for contributions to internet topology and active networks." Ken earned his Ph.D. from UTCS in 1991 under Simon Lam's supervision. Currently, Ken is Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Kentucky.
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11/28/2011 -
Yin Zhang, along with his former student Ajay Mahimkar (now at AT&T Research) and several other co-authors, won the Best Paper Award at ACM CoNEXT 2011. Their paper is titled "Rapid Detection of Maintenance Induced Changes in Service Performance."
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