300 young women from around the nation traveled to the Triangle last weekend to participate in the second annual Pearl Hacks, a weekend hackathon at UNC-Chapel Hill created by a student with a mission to get more women excited about technology. The … Read more
The UNC Department of Computer Science and the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication will host more than 300 college- and high school-aged women from 15 states for a women-focused hackathon on March 21-22. Pearl Hacks — an innovative … Read more
Assistant Professor Alex Berg has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award that will fund a research project titled “Situated Recognition: Learning to understand our local visual environment.” The project aims to develop computer vision technologies for … Read more
How many computers are in your car? One? Three? Five? Closer to 40. That’s for a mid-range vehicle. A higher-end car might have 100 computers, says UNC computer scientist Jim Anderson. Computers control a car’s ignition, transmission, brakes, cruise control, … Read more
I am lost in a virtual world. I am in a tiny house in a seaside town of Tuscany. I can hear a fire crackling next to me, and my brain tells me to move away. There is an organ … Read more
You might resemble or act more like your mother, but a novel research study from UNC School of Medicine researchers reveals that mammals are genetically more like their dads. Specifically, the research shows that although we inherit equal amounts of … 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 the classic TV cartoon series The Jetsons, a wisecracking and lovable robot maid named Rosie helps out around the house. She irons George’s shirts, helps Jane with the dishes and even disciplines Elroy. The show is set in the 2060s, … Read more
When former computer science professor John Smith came to UNC in 1966 as an English graduate student interested in computer science, there were two computers in the area. One was in the basement of Phillips Hall. The other, in Research … 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
