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Department of Computer Science

Building Industry Bridges: Computer Scientist Tackles New Role for Sony, While Leading at UT

November 21, 2019 • by Marc Airhart

Peter Stone, professor and head of Texas Robotics, will lead the newly established Sony AI in the United States.

Peter Stone has been tapped by Sony Corp. to head up the U.S. branch of its new global artificial intelligence research division, called Sony AI.

Features

Urbain Weyemi Looks for the Unexpected to Better Understand Cancer

November 20, 2019 • by Esther Robards-Forbes

Accolades

Microbe Research Team Awarded Gold Medal at 2019 iGEM Competition

November 18, 2019 • by Cason Hunwick

Students accept award on stage from three people dressed in formal wear

Announcements

UT Austin Launches Institute to Harness the Data Revolution

November 6, 2019 • by Aaron Dubrow

$1.5M award from National Science Foundation to support cross-disciplinary machine learning and data science research

Research

Attacking Weaknesses in Killer Bacteria with Help from Glowing Beads

November 5, 2019 • by Esther Robards-Forbes

Black background with purple circles and glowing pink dots inside them

Texas Leader

Alumna Supports her Love of Nature through Gifts to College of Natural Sciences

October 30, 2019 • by Staff Writer

The story of how this Lost Pines treasure landed within the College of Natural Sciences begins with UT alumna Lorraine Stengl, known to many as...

Lorraine Wyer and Casey Stengl stand in hats in an outdoor area at Stengl Lost Pines BIological Station with wildflowers in the foreground and a building farther away

Features

Visualizing Science 2019: Revealing Hidden Splendor in Research

October 24, 2019 • by Staff Writer

A network of gut bacteria of tadpoles from nine ponds in East Texas. Each color is a pond, and each dot is a different species of bacteria.

UT News

Artificial Intelligence System Gives Fashion Advice

October 23, 2019 • by Esther Robards-Forbes

Two hands hold a smart phone which displays a manakin wearing fashionable clothes

UT News

Gift to UT Austin Will Advance Programs in Biodiversity and Ecology

October 21, 2019 • by Christine Sinatra

A generous estate gift to The University of Texas at Austin from alumna and former physician Lorraine “Casey” Stengl will have a dramatic impact on...

Casey Stengl holds a framed montage of plants and outdoor areas

Accolades

Karen Uhlenbeck Awarded Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement

October 21, 2019 • by Cason Hunwick