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Carolina Ranks 30th in 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities
August 28, 2018 | UNC Global
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks 30th in the world and 22nd in the U.S. among global universities, according to the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released by the ShanghaiRanking … Read more
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Welcome to “Compder Scifflin” — better known as COMP 110
August 24, 2018 | The Daily Tar Heel
Sitting in a large lecture on the first day of class can be intimidating. In a room of 300 or more students, sometimes you can barely see your professor at the front — how are you supposed to ask him questions when you d … Read more
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Well Said: computer science magic (interview with Prof. Gary Bishop)
August 2, 2018 | UNC Discover
On this episode of Well Said, we hear from computer science professor Gary Bishop, who discusses how he uses computer science magic and how he found that magic here in Chapel Hill. Transcript Bishop:One of the tal … Read more
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Bansal receives prestigious ARO Young Investigator Award
July 31, 2018 | College of Arts and Sciences
Mohit Bansal, an assistant professor in the department of computer science, received the prestigious Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award from the U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) for 2018 — for his work on natural lang … Read more
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Can a computer diagnose autism?
July 11, 2018 | Spectrum
Martin Styner’s son Max was 6 by the time clinicians diagnosed him with autism. The previous year, Max’s kindergarten teacher had noticed some behavioral signs. For example, the little boy would immerse himself in books … Read more
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Mind games: The emerging brain-powered possibilities of AR and VR
June 15, 2018 | Innovate Carolina
Most people you pass on the street have a general understanding of augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR). But a team of undergrads at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, led by Brian Moynihan of the UNC … Read more
A Proposed Solution to the Password Reuse Problem
June 13, 2018 | SecurityIntelligence
Password reuse across multiple sites creates major security risks. If an attacker can steal credentials and gain access to one account, he or she can also log into every other account that uses the same password. The thr … Read more
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Fuchs receives honorary doctorate from TU Wien
May 24, 2018
Federico Gil Distinguished Professor Henry Fuchs was awarded an honorary doctorate by TU Wien in Vienna, Austria on May 8. Fuchs was recognized for his service to the scientific development of computer graphics, in parti … Read more
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Bauer earns 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
May 17, 2018
Doctoral student Lisa Bauer was awarded the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Bauer was one of 2,000 fellowship awardees for 2018 selected from more than 12,000 applicants nationwide. The … Read more
Amert, Nemitz inducted into Frank Porter Graham Honor Society
May 16, 2018
Doctoral students Tanya Amert and Catherine Nemitz were selected for induction into the Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honor Society for 2018. Amert and Nemitz were two of 21 inductees in 2018. The … Read more
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Anderson receives IEEE TCRTS Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award
May 7, 2018
Kenan Distinguished Professor James H. Anderson was named the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS) Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award. The IEEE TCRTS Outstanding … Read more
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Computer science department provides an ‘empowering’ day for visually impaired students
May 7, 2018 | UNC Discover
Nobody, Carolina first-year Graham Trogdon said, should be excluded from a college campus just because of a disability. That was the message he wanted to send to the nearly 150 blind and visually impaired children who vi … Read more
UNC Science Expo says you don’t need a lab coat or a STEM degree to be a scientist
April 18, 2018 | The Daily Tar Heel
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 Scie … Read more
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Maimone awarded IEEE Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award
March 30, 2018
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 … Read more
Women and minorities in tech are making their voices heard
March 29, 2018 | The Daily Tar Heel
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 sa … Read more
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190 at UNC-Chapel Hill inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
March 23, 2018 | UNC News
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 … Read more
UNC Comp Sci department works to close gender gap
March 21, 2018 | The Daily Tar Heel
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 ne … Read more
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UNC CS announces Women in Tech Week 2018
February 27, 2018
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 wee … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill research team lands patent for augmented reality
February 26, 2018 | WRAL Tech Wire
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 … Read more
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Manocha named AAAI Fellow
February 19, 2018
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 … Read more
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Amitabh Varshney Named Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at UMD
January 24, 2018 | UMD CMNS
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 (C … Read more
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‘Adversarial glasses’ can fool even state-of-the-art facial-recognition tech
January 11, 2018 | Digital Trends
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 — f … Read more
AI-Fooling Glasses Could Be Good Enough to Trick Facial Recognition at Airports
January 5, 2018 | Motherboard
In the not-too-distant future, we’ll have plenty of reasons to want protect ourselves from facial detection software. Even now, companies from Facebook to the NFL and Pornhub already use this technology to identify peopl … Read more
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Ming Lin Named Chair of UMD Department of Computer Science
December 14, 2017 | UMD CMNS
Ming C. Lin will lead the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science, effective January 1, 2018. A noted educator and expert in virtual reality, computer graphics and robotics, Lin will assume the role of El … Read more
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When AI Supplies the Sound in Video Clips, Humans Can’t Tell the Difference
December 13, 2017 | MIT Technology Review
Machine learning is changing the way we think about images and how they are created. Researchers have trained machines to generate faces, to draw cartoons, and even to transfer the style of paintings to pictures. It is j … Read more
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IEEE TryCybSI Partners on Why Active Learning is Key for Mastering Cybersecurity
December 6, 2017 | IEEE Cybersecurity
Fabian Monrose is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. Monrose and research engineer Jan Werner teach cybersecurity using a challeng … Read more
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CS major Sweta Karleka featured in UNC’s Women in Science Wednesday
November 9, 2017 | Endeavors
When you were a child, what was your response to this question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Describe your research in five words. “Artificial intelligence helps you remember.” I always wanted to be a docto … Read more
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Berg wins 2017 Helmholtz Prize
November 3, 2017
The International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) is the top international Computer Vision event, comprising the main ICCV conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. At ICCV 2017 in Venice, Italy … Read more
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Tech companies look to universities for talent in artificial intelligence
November 1, 2017 | The Daily Tar Heel
Tech companies are pursuing artificial intelligence projects more than ever, and they’re looking at universities to recruit their new talent. According to Dinesh Manocha, a computer science professor at UNC, artificial i … Read more
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Bansal receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
October 23, 2017 | College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Mohit Bansal has received the prestigious Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — becoming only the second UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member t … Read more