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The New Social Network (feature on telepresence research at UNC)
December 11, 2015 | Endeavors
Aman sits outside a café in North Carolina. His wife, in Paris, calls him and tells him she would like to have lunch. He puts on a pair of eyeglasses and presses a button. Then, suddenly, she is sitting across the table … Read more
Entrepreneurship and education come together in new master’s program
November 19, 2015 | The Daily Tar Heel
UNC officials say the new Master of Arts in educational innovation, technology and entrepreneurship, which was introduced on Monday, is the first of its kind in the U.S. Although it is based in the School of Education, t … Read more
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DARPA seeks “non-traditional” robotics innovators
November 18, 2015 | ZDNet
The government has a robotics problem. Government grants for cutting edge robotics research and development typically favor large military contractors. But a lot of the development in robotics these days comes from indiv … Read more
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Syrian immigrant Bahij Dahdal juggles parenting and school (CS major profile)
November 2, 2015 | The Daily Tar Heel
For transfer student Bahij Dahdal, school is not the only thing he has to worry about each day. The father of three has to get up early each day to take his children to school before making the commute to UNC from Wake F … Read more
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Computer science majors outpace department’s budget, faculty
October 27, 2015 | The Daily Tar Heel
The computer science department at UNC is using one of the largest classrooms on campus, but students still complain they can’t get into classes they need. The number of computer science majors at UNC has increased fivef … Read more
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Workshop shows that data matters at Carolina
October 7, 2015 | renci
When you put more than 50 faculty members, center directors, and researchers from 30 different campus units in a room, ideas are inevitable. However, all the attendees at the Data@Carolina Workshop last week agreed on on … Read more
How Impulsonic Makes VR & Gaming More Immersive… With Help From the Triangle
September 18, 2015 | ExitEvent
What do you get when you mix a group of computer science PhDs, a vibrant startup culture and an ultra-supportive university department? You get Impulsonic, the Carrboro-based startup that’s pioneering work in the softwar … Read more
eBay buying Twice (founded by alumnus Calvin Young) in hopes of bringing back amateur sellers
July 20, 2015 | CNET
eBay wasted little time in starting its new mission of rebuilding its marketplace. On the same day eBay began trading separately from its former payments unit, PayPal, eBay revealed it will be buying the core technology … Read more
UNC explores future of transportation
July 8, 2015 | WNCN News
Ever since Henry Ford strapped on four wheels to the base of the Model T back in 1908, society has fostered a growing question: When will we be able to get behind the wheel of a self-driving car? Cartoons as far back as … Read more
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Developers create 3D models from public photos
July 7, 2015 | Spatial Source
United States modelling group URC ventures, in partnership with the University of North Carolina Department of Computer Science, has developed a 3D reconstruction method using computer vision and 3D modelling techniques … Read more
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Kevin Jeffay, Time Paterson receive 2015 UW CSE Alumni Achievement Awards
June 16, 2015 | Allen School News
At UW CSE’s graduation ceremony on Friday evening, 1978 Bachelors alum Tim Paterson and 1989 Ph.D. alum Kevin Jeffay will be recognized as the recipients of UW CSE’s 2015 Alumni Achievement Awards. We inaugurated this aw … Read more
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2015 Steven A. Coons Award: Henry Fuchs
June 15, 2015 | ACM Siggraph
ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to award the 2015 Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics to Henry Fuchs, for his contributions in augmented and virtual reality, telepresence and grap … Read more
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Rebuilding the World’s Most Beloved Landmarks in Six Days
June 5, 2015
New Process Constructs 12,903 3D Models from 100 Million Crowd-Sourced Photos June 5, 2015 The red dots in this image represent locations which have been reconstructed as 3D models. CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA—The UNC Ch … Read more
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Mehra receives 2015 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award
May 19, 2015
Doctoral student Ravish Mehra received the 2015 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering for his dissertation titled Efficient Techniques for Wave-Based Sound Propagation … Read more
The new Cisco CEO has a North Carolina connection
May 4, 2015 | Charlotte Business Journal
One of North Carolina’s major technology employers, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), has named Chuck Robbins as CEO to replace John Chambers. Robbins, the California-based company’s senior vice president of worldwide operati … Read more
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Why the Nation’s Top On-Campus Women’s Hackathon Invites Men
April 13, 2015 | Viget.com
All-female hackathons have become popular in recent years, mainly because they provide something very few tech companies and computer science departments can: a place where a woman who codes or wants to learn can do so w … Read more
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Robots and Real-World Variability: When Change Happens, Adapt
April 1, 2015 | Forbes
How long did it take you to get to work today? Me? A 12 mile trip took about 45 minutes. My daughter’s bus was running a little late. My son forgot to pack his backpack last night – what a surprise. Construction workers … Read more
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Undergraduate Maegan Clawges honored with University Award for the Advancement of Women
March 23, 2015
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has recognized senior Maegan Clawges with a University Award for the Advancement of Women for 2015. The award is presented to three recipients annually, one faculty member, … Read more
How a UNC Senior Built a Women’s Movement with Pearl Hacks
March 21, 2015 | ExitEvent
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 e … Read more
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Pearl Hacks addresses gender divide in computer science
March 19, 2015
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. Pear … Read more
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Berg receives NSF CAREER award
March 16, 2015
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 vi … Read more
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More Processors, More Problems (Real-Time Systems Group work for self driving cars)
March 13, 2015 | Endeavors
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, … Read more
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What’s in a Sound?
March 3, 2015 | Endeavors
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 playing in the distance, and I turn around an … Read more
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Genetically Speaking, Mammals Are More Like Their Fathers (research co-authored by CS graduate students and faculty)
March 2, 2015 | Newswise
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 althoug … Read more
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UNC CS Alumnus Mark Mine receives VES Award
February 21, 2015
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, G … Read more
Meet the UNC Researchers Behind Sugar-Scooping, Surgery-Performing, Self-Driving Robots
February 18, 2015 | ExitEvent
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 se … Read more
UNC Department of Computer Science celebrates 50 years
January 16, 2015 | The Daily Tar Heel
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 oth … Read more
Meet Google’s Webspam Man (CS Alumnus Matt Cutts)
January 15, 2015 | ExitEvent
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
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Matt Cutts delivers a talk as part of our 50th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series
January 12, 2015
Thanks to Matt Cutts (M.S. 1988) for visiting our department and delivering an outstanding talk as part of our 50th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series. Matt is a Google Distinguished Engineer and Webspam Tea … Read more
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Making movies, video games sound as good as they look (GAMMA Group)
January 2, 2015 | The Boston Globe
Earlier this month I wrote a story for Ideas on an equation that describes how people move in crowds. Afterward I received an e-mail that said, in effect, if you’re interested in things that are hard to model, look at ho … Read more