Earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes take lives around the world, due to their unpredictable nature and massive power. Humans are responsible for similar levels of carnage through human crushes or stampedes; for example, more than 2,200 Muslim pilgrims were killed in Mina, … Read more
Sight-impaired children from all over the state had an opportunity to test computer applications at Maze Day 2016. Participants came to the Department of Computer Science in Sitterson Hall to experience research and play games created specifically for them by computer science … Read more
Three researchers located at Drexel University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been named 2016 -2017 Data Fellows by the National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) the consortium announced today. The NCDS, … Read more
“I was introduced to computer science my first year of college at UNC Chapel Hill. A friend of mine was taking an online introductory JavaScript course. I followed along and taught myself the basics of code. I was a biochemistry … Read more
Ming Lin was the keynote speaker at the IEEE VR Conference on March 19, 2016. Lin’s talk, “Towards Immersive Multimodal Display: Interactive Auditory Rendering for Complex Virtual Environments” presented an overview of recent work on interactive auditory display, consisting of … Read more
High school and college women across the region came to Sitterson Hall on April 2 and April 3 for the third annual Pearl Hacks hackathon. Attendees went to workshops, created technological applications and supported gender diversification in STEM fields. “There … Read more
Tia Holmes, a first-year computer science major at UNC-Chapel Hill, was awarded a 2016 Google Lime Scholarship. The scholarship carries a $10,000 grant for the 2016-2017 academic year. The Google Lime Scholarship is a partnership between Google and Lime Connect … Read more
Fred Brooks retired in 2015 after 51 years at UNC — but he started teaching long before he got here. “I started regular teaching when I was in high school,” he said. “My senior year, one of the teachers came … Read more
With a little help from DJ Khaled, Kris Jordan is revolutionizing UNC’s intro level computer science program. Instead of taking the traditional bottom-up approach and building from basics to the harder stuff, Jordan said he has turned the traditional curriculum … 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
