The UNC Department of Computer Science will celebrate Pi Day this year by hosting a “Pi Your Professor” fundraiser to support CS student clubs and initiatives. Comp Sci students can buy a ticket for $10 to lob a “pi” at … Read more
In early January, we discovered that Valve had acquired a 3D audio company called Impulsonic. Valve didn’t reveal the news, but Impulsonic’s website indicated that Valve swallowed up the company’s assets and employees. Impulsonic made a physics-based binaural 3D audio utility called … Read more
Pearl Hacks 2017 brought women from all over the country to UNC-Chapel Hill in February. The event sought to address the gender imbalance in computer science and technology by providing resources and education and by building community among women in … Read more
Twenty-two years ago, researchers first reported that adolescents with autism spectrum disorder had increased brain volume. During the intervening years, studies of younger and younger children showed that this brain “overgrowth” occurs in childhood. Now, a team at the University of North Carolina, … Read more
Faculty from the UNC School of Medicine and the Department of Computer Science came together on Tuesday to celebrate the 10 millionth book read on TarHeelReader.org. The online library of free books for students with disabilities was co-founded by computer … Read more
Tar Heel Reader, an online, open source library of free, easy-to-read, accessible books, recently reached 10 million books read.
Benjamin Kompa, a fourth-year student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Churchill Scholarship, a research-focused award that provides funding to outstanding American students for a year of master’s study … Read more
Achieving a wide field of view in an AR headset is a challenge in itself, but so too is fixing the so-called vergence-accommodation conflict which presently plagues most VR and AR headsets, making them less comfortable and less in sync … Read more
There has been a lot of arguing about the size of crowds in the past few days. Estimates for President Trump’s inauguration and the Women’s March a day later vary widely. And for crowd scientists, that’s pretty normal. “I think this is … Read more
Chapel Hill, NC—Tar Heel Reader, an online program that helps students with disabilities learn to read independently, reached 10 million books read on January 7 at 7:35 p.m. The site, which was created by Karen Erickson of the Center for Literacy … Read more
