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How can machines, humans talk better? UNC prof, colleague land $1.5M to find out
July 13, 2019 | WRAL Tech Wire
Ever give a command to Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant, and find that some things get lost in communication? It’s safe to say that you’re not alone. To perform such functions, voice-activated virtual assistants rely o … Read more
Identifying perceived emotions from people’s walking style
July 12, 2019 | Tech Xplore
A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Maryland at College Park has recently developed a new deep learning model that can identify people’s emotions based on their … Read more
AMD’s SEV tech that protects cloud VMs from rogue servers may as well stand for… Still Extremely Vulnerable [featuring work from Jan Werner and Fabian Monrose]
July 11, 2019 | The Register
Five boffins from four US universities have explored AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology – and found its defenses can be, in certain circumstances, bypassed with a bit of effort. In a paper [PDF] prese … Read more
2019 BARCAMP ENGAGES AND INFORMS IT PROS
July 8, 2019 | UNC ITS
Carolina Technology Consultants brought together the University’s IT professionals and sparked discussion of the latest technologies at its annual BarCamp unconference on May 23. About 30 people attended CTC’s half-day u … Read more
Bansal receives Google Focused Research Award in NLP
July 8, 2019
Mohit Bansal, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and director of the UNC-NLP Lab, received a Google Focused Research Award in natural language processing to fund exploration of spatial language … Read more
Alumnus Raskar gives 2019 UNC Doctoral Hooding keynote address
June 4, 2019
Raskar’s contributions to the field have been innovative, collaborative, and have served in supporting solutions to global problems. His speech to doctoral graduates mirrored his work, challenging graduates to consider … Read more
UNC Computer Science recognizes more than 300 graduates in annual commencement
May 27, 2019
The UNC Department of Computer Science celebrated its summer 2018, winter 2018, and spring 2019 graduates with an annual ceremony in Carmichael Arena. With 335 graduates, the 2019 event was the largest to date. The depar … Read more
Kuntz earns Thomas S. Kenan III Graduate Fellowship
May 15, 2019
Computer science doctoral student Alan Kuntz was named to the first cohort of Thomas S. Kenan III Graduate Fellows. The Thomas S. Kenan III Graduate Fellowship will award Kuntz a $5,000 addition to his regular stipend fo … Read more
UNC CS team wins F1TENTH autonomous racing challenge
April 26, 2019
The scoreboard from F1TENTH 2019 Researchers from the UNC Department of Computer Science took first place at F1TENTH, an autonomous RC car race held during Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (CPS-IoT) Week 201 … Read more
Augmented Health Care (profile of augmented reality work from the UNC Graphics & Virtual Reality Group)
April 18, 2019 | Endeavors Magazine
As a computer science student in the 1970s, Henry Fuchs tried to explain the benefits of affordable, personal computers to others at his school. Most were not convinced –– they saw no need for this technology in their da … Read more
Hannan earns 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in natural language processing
April 16, 2019 | College of Arts and Sciences
Computer science doctoral student Darryl Hannan has been selected as a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship for 2019. This is a nationwide fellowship that supports outstanding gradu … Read more
Carving out a niche (profile of assistant professor of Cynthia Sturton)
April 9, 2019 | Arts & Sciences Magazine
In 2018, the public was made aware of a flaw in many common computer processors that makes computer hardware vulnerable even when it is running secure software. Multiple attacks exploited this vulnerability, with ominous … Read more
When robots commit wrongdoing, people may incorrectly assign the blame
April 8, 2019 | UNC College of Arts & Sciences
Last year, a self-driven car struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The woman’s family is now suing Arizona and the city of Tempe for negligence. But, in an article published on April 5 in the journal Trends i … Read more
UNC Comp Sci celebrates third annual Women in Tech Week
March 27, 2019 | The Daily Tar Heel
Anna Truelove entered first year at UNC feeling lost and confused. Now as a junior, she’s helping to guide and support women in technology. Truelove is a member of the planning committee that’s organizing Women in Tech W … Read more
Pearl Hacks 2019 empowers women and non-binary student coders
March 7, 2019
More than 300 women and non-binary students met in Chapel Hill for Pearl Hacks, a 24-hour hackathon facilitated by the UNC Department of Computer Science. The event was held from February 16 to 17 at the Gillings School … Read more
Former UNC CS researcher Dai and startup Ximmerse emerge as leaders in augmented reality
March 4, 2019
Augmented reality is changing the way people view, connect to, and interact with the world. At the forefront of this revolution is Jingwen Dai, co-founder and CTO at Ximmerse, a leader in the field of low-cost augmented … Read more
Pasunuru Awarded Prestigious Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship in NLP/ML
January 23, 2019
Computer science doctoral student Ramakanth Pasunuru, who works with assistant professor Mohit Bansal in the UNC-NLP group, received the prestigious 2019 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship for his work in natural language … Read more
Combating ‘fake news’: UNC team wins international competition for their fact-checking system
January 4, 2019 | UNC College of Arts & Sciences
The increasing concern over misinformation and “fake news” in the marketplace of ideas has stimulated research efforts on automatic fact-checking via machine learning and natural language processing methods. A UNC-Chapel … Read more
Teaching kids to code (profile of CS major Angelina Patel)
November 30, 2018 | UNC.edu Spotlight
Carolina sophomore Angelina Patel is teaching the universal language of computer programming to an unexpected audience: children. In high school, Patel participated in a computer science camp at Carolina, piquing her int … Read more
Scientists train a computer to classify breast cancer tumors
November 22, 2018 | UNC Lineberger
In a study published in the journal NPJ Breast Cancer, researchers reported they used a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning, or deep learning, to train a computer to identify certain features of breas … Read more
UNC CS researchers earn Best Paper at RTNS 2018
November 21, 2018
Doctoral students Namhoon Kim, Stephen Tang, and Nathan Otterness and faculty members James Anderson, F. Donelson Smith, and Donald Porter received the Best Paper Award at the 26th International Conference on Real-Time N … Read more
NSF announces awards to shape the human-technology partnership for the well-being of workers and their productivity
November 7, 2018 | National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing over $25 million in 26 projects to advance the cognitive and physical capabilities of workers in the context of human-technology interactions. These new awards will addr … Read more
UNC CS hosts 400 at Middle School and High School Open House
October 12, 2018
The Department of Computer Science hosted 400 participants at its third annual Middle School and High School Open House in September. Attendees had the opportunity to participate in hands-on research demonstrations, visi … Read more
UNC CS hires 3 new faculty members for Fall 2018
September 26, 2018
Students returning for Fall 2018 will notice three new faces among the computer science faculty. John Majikes, Junier Oliva, and Jeff Terrell were hired in the summer of 2018 and have already begun working with students … Read more
UNC CS sponsors 45 women at 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration
September 26, 2018
UNC was well represented at the Grace Hopper Celebration held in Houston September 26 – 28. With support from corporate partners, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and UNC alumni, the Department of Computer Science pr … Read more
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
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
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
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
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