News: Computer Science

Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin

Features

Bill Press of UT Austin Publishes a Memoir on his Storied Career

Across domains, Press has contributed to many fields and institutions, which he writes about in a newly published memoir.

Bill Press

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Students and Faculty Parade Their Robots Through Campus

Texas Robotics held its inaugural Robot Parade, and members of various research labs and student groups showcased their work.

Several students and researchers in Texas Robotics t-shirts and holding controllers accompany a variety of robots walking and rolling down Speedway

Oden Institute & Department of Computer Science

Keshav Pingali Receives Ken Kennedy Award for High Performance and Parallel Computing

IEEE has announced its 2023 Ken Kennedy Award for University of Texas at Austin computer scientist Keshav Pingali.

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Accolades

Computer Scientist Inducted into Internet Hall of Fame

Simon Lam has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for creating the first secure sockets layer in 1993 for internet applications.

Portrait of a scientist

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UT Mourns Pioneer of Computational Mechanics and Founder of Oden Institute

J. Tinsley Oden, the founder of computational mechanics and first director of UT’s related institute, has died.

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Announcements

College Announces Newest Inductees to Hall of Honor

The Hall of Honor recognizes Distinguished Alumni, Distinguished Service and Emerging Leader award winners.

Amir Husain, Christina Reed and Wayne Alexander

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UT and U.S. Army Researchers Replicate Real-life Tech Lab for Summer Camp Students

A STEM enrichment camp at UT Austin recently connected middle school students with tech mentors.

Young students watch a demonstration

Announcements

New “Essentials of AI” Course Launches This Fall

The Department of Computer Science and the Good Systems program present a one semester-credit-hour course titled “Essentials of AI for Life and Society.”

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Accolades

Starbird, Martines and Dillig Selected for Texas 10 Recognition

Three faculty members in the College of Natural Sciences were chosen for an honor given by The Alcalde.

Theresa Martines, Işıl Dillig and Michael Starbird

Podcast

Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People’s Minds

The work relies in part on a transformer model, similar to the ones that power ChatGPT.

Strings of words spiral out from a brain