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President Obama Honors Computer Scientist
Brent Waters honored at the White House this week with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Computer Science Combats Disease
Computer Science professor Chandrajit Bajaj uses software to fight disease.
University of Texas at Austin Team Wins Robot Soccer World Championships in Two Divisions
For the first time in university history, the Texas team won the RoboCupSoccer Standard Platform League (SPL) competition — one of the highest profile leagues at RoboCup.
Molecular Matchmaking for Drug Discovery
Researchers at the Computational Visualization Center are finding drug targets through simulation and modeling.
A Tree of Life Grows in Texas
Computer scientist Tandy Warnow uses the supercomputers at TACC to help decipher the relationships between all living things on the planet.
Computer Scientist Developing Intersections of the Future With Fully Autonomous Vehicles
Intersections of the future will not need stop lights or stop signs, but will look like a somewhat chaotic flow of driverless, autonomous cars slipping past one another, says Peter Stone.
Toward Lowering the Power Consumption of Microprocessors
Scientists measure how microprocessors function on a variety of software and chip architectures.
Game Development Program Is Launched
The college is teaming up with two other colleges at the university to launch undergraduate students into an interdisciplinary game development program.
Peter Stone Named 2011 Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program Recipient
Computer science professor Peter Stone has been named a 2011 Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) recipient.
Computer Scientist Brent Waters Selected as Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
Microsoft Research has selected Assistant Professor Brent Waters as one of eight Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows of 2011. Waters studies cryptography and computer security. His research is laying the foundation for a new vision of encryption called Functional Encryption. Instead of encrypting to individual users, in a Functional Encryption syst...
RoboCup Remix
The UT Austin Villa team, which is led by University of Texas at Austin computer scientists Peter Stone and Patrick MacAlpine, beat 21 other teams from 11 nations for the trophy.
UT Austin Villa Wins World RoboCup Championships
UT Austin Villa has won the 2011 RoboCupSoccer championships in the 3-D simulation division.Scientists Afflict Computers with Schizophrenia to Better Understand the Human Brain
Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains.
Three Cheers for Watson
Computer scientists Bruce Porter, Ray Mooney and Ken Barker contributed expertise to IBM's Watson computer, which competes against humans on Jeopardy! this week.Read It Now
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