09/09/2011 -
Faculty at the The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science (UTCS) are at the forefront of the digital revolution. Congratulations to the following faculty on their recent achievements.
Chandra Bajaj
Moncrief Grand Challenge Faculty award
Mike Dahlin
CNS Teaching Excellence Award
Inderjit Dhillon
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08/10/2011 -
For his work on the foundations of a new way of encrypting data, Brent Waters from the University of Texas in Austin has been elected as one of this year's...
Encrypting Data in the Cloud Brings Win for Texas | By Nicolas Zeitler | Aug 10, 2011 3:20 PM
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08/05/2011 -
Microsoft Research has selected Assistant Professor Brent Waters as one of eight Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows of 2011.
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07/28/2011 -
RoboCup Remix from Texas Science on Vimeo.
The video footage is from the second half of the championship game in the 3-D Simulation league in RoboCupSoccer 2011. UT Austin Villa won the game, 4-0, over a team from Changzhou Institute of Technology in China. The audio track is “humm ok,” by Gablé (Creative Commons).
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07/19/2011 -
AUSTIN, Texas—UT Austin Villa, a team of programmers led by University of Texas at Austin computer scientists Peter Stone and Patrick MacAlpine, has won the 2011 RoboCup Soccer championships in the 3-D simulation division.
The UT Austin Villa team beat 21 other teams from 11 nations for the trophy. In the process they scored 136 goals and conceded none.
The annual tournament, which was founded in 1997 to foster innovation in artificial intelligence and robotics research, was held last week in Istanbul, Turkey.
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06/15/2011 -
The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System has recognized Professor Calvin Lin and Senior Lecturer Mike Scott for outstanding teaching. Mike and Calvin are two of just seven UT faculty who got the award this year.The awards are given to faculty members who demonstrate extraordinary classroom performance and innovation at the undergraduate level.
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06/03/2011 -
Senior Lecturer Michael D. Scott is one of four faculty members at The University of Texas at Austin selected to hold a Dads' Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship during the 2011-12 fall semester.
The award reflects the recipients' teaching excellence and commitment and an acknowledgment of the many contributions they have made to the undergraduate experience for students at the university. Recipients of the award will receive a $3,500 honorarium.
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05/26/2011 -
Professor Inderjit Dhillon, together with Justin Brickell, Suvrit Sra and Joel Tropp have been selected to recive the award of the 2011 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Oustanding Paper Prize for their paper entitled, "The Metric Nearness Problem," which appeared in the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX). Their paper is one of the three winning papers.
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05/16/2011 -
"One way to study the schizophrenic brain: Build one" | Marketplace Tech Report
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