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CS student Samantha Petrie profiled by Wogrammer
April 19, 2016 | Wogrammer
“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 bioc … Read more
UNC CS Featured at IEEE VR 2016 Conference — Two of four papers presented win awards
April 3, 2016
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 r … Read more
Hackathon inspires women in technology
April 3, 2016 | The Daily Tar Heel
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 gend … Read more
Holmes earns Google Lime Scholarship
March 30, 2016
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 pa … Read more
Founding UNC’s computer science department was an experiment — but it paid off for Fred Brooks
March 7, 2016 | The Daily Tar Heel
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 down with ca … Read more
Computer science class gets modern twist
February 18, 2016 | The Daily Tar Heel
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 … Read more
Two students named 2016 Gates Cambridge Scholars
February 18, 2016 | UNC News
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 … Read more
Dr. Dinesh Manocha discusses the rise of robots and future development in China (published in Chinese)
December 31, 2015 | OFweek.com
NC IDEA WINNER: Rheomics, Building Tools For More Accurate Blood Testing
December 15, 2015 | ExitEvent
Rheomics is one of six startups to win ~$50K in grant funding from the nonprofit Durham-based NC IDEA Foundation. Since 2006, the foundation has awarded nearly $4.2 million to 104 startups around the state. The six compa … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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