Alumnus Andrew S. Maimone (Ph.D. 2015, M.S. 2012) was selected as one of two winners of the 2018 IEEE Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award. Maimone was recognized at the 25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) … Read more

Computer scientist Amitabh Varshney has been named dean of the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS), effective March 1, 2018. Amitabh Varshney. Photo: John T. Consoli (Click image to download hi-res version.) Varshney is a professor of computer science at UMD … Read more

Eighteen undergraduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and one undergraduate from Duke University have been selected as Phillips Ambassadors for summer and fall 2017 study abroad programs in Asia. In addition, one history doctoral candidate was awarded a … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill students Larry Han and Matthew Leming have been awarded prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarships, which provide full support for graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England. This is the first time Carolina has had two people selected … Read more

eBay wasted little time in starting its new mission of rebuilding its marketplace. On the same day eBay began trading separately from its former payments unit, PayPal, eBay revealed it will be buying the core technology of second-hand clothing e-retailer Twice for … Read more

At UW CSE’s graduation ceremony on Friday evening, 1978 Bachelors alum Tim Paterson and 1989 Ph.D. alum Kevin Jeffay will be recognized as the recipients of UW CSE’s 2015 Alumni Achievement Awards. We inaugurated this award for two purposes: first, … Read more

Mark Mine (M.S. 1994, Ph.D. 1997) was recognized by the 13th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards with an award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project. Mine, along with Tony Apodaca, Marianne McLean, Gilles Martin, and Edwin Chang, worked … Read more

In 1999, Matt Cutts had a decision to make. He could stay at UNC, working towards his PhD, or he could quit school and fly to California, to become one of the first employees of a new company called “Google.” Cutts knew … Read more

Thanks to Matt Cutts (M.S. 1988) for visiting our department and delivering an outstanding talk as part of our 50th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series. Matt is a Google Distinguished Engineer and Webspam Team Lead. Matt presented on “Lessons Learned … Read more