Frustrated by male-dominated tech culture, junior computer science major Kaylee Llewellyn started Women in Tech Week, which is hosting events on campus through Friday. She said she wants to raise awareness that women are underrepresented in many tech industries and … Read more

Junior computer science major Kaylee Llewellyn was recognized on March 7 with the University Award for the Advancement of Women. Llewellyn was one of four recipients for 2017 who were honored during a ceremony in the Campus Y at the … Read more

Ravish Mehra, a 2014 doctoral graduate in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was awarded the 2016 VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award for his work developing simulated sound propagation algorithms. The IEEE VGTC Virtual … Read more

Several events to promote women who opt for careers in the technology industry will be held at UNC-Chapel Hill as part of the Department of Computer Science’s Women in Tech Week. The five-day promotion was conceived by Kaylee Llewellyn, a … Read more

Creating passwords that are memorable, hintable and resistant to attack is an increasingly important issue, especially in the age of savvy cyber-hackers — but computer-generated passwords are often too hard for people to remember, experts say. It turns out that … Read more

Take a moment to focus on the sounds around you. Maybe you’re sitting at a desk and someone walks by in the hallway. Even though you can’t see them, you can hear their footsteps and can tell when they get … Read more

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