The UNC Science Expo packed Cameron Street as hundreds of future scientists and eager local residents gathered around white tents to learn about scientific innovation at UNC. The Expo is a part of the North Carolina Science Festival, a month-long … Read more
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
Sitting in a room with fellow team members and higher-up employees, someone suggests a solution for a work problem. No one in the room acknowledges they said anything. A few moments later, someone beside them says the same thing and … Read more
Phi Beta Kappa inducted 190 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students as new members. The recent induction ceremony featured a keynote address by William L. Roper, M.D., MPH, dean of the UNC School of Medicine. New members received … Read more
According to the nonprofit organization Girls Who Code, just 24 percent of computer scientists today are women, and only 4 percent of female first-year students are enrolled in computing courses. At UNC, women make up nearly 30 percent of the … Read more
The UNC Department of Computer Science and the Women in Computer Science Club are hosting the second annual Women in Tech Week, beginning March 5, 2018. This year’s talks will feature a security theme. Throughout the week, students, faculty, and … Read more
A team of inventors from UNC-Chapel Hill received a patent for augmented reality technology offering greater alignment between real and synthetic imagery, according to a filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The technology provides low latency for … Read more
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) announced its 2018 Fellows on January 1, 2018. Among the 2018 cohort was Dinesh Manocha, Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science. The AAAI Fellows program … 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
You may have heard about so-called “adversarial” objects that are capable of baffling facial recognition systems, either making them fail to recognize an object completely or prompting them to classify it incorrectly — for example, thinking that a rifle is actually a … Read more
