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Amert, Nemitz inducted into Frank Porter Graham Honor Society
May 16, 2018
Catherine Nemitz Tanya Amert 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 … Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nemitz and Amert earn Best Student Paper at RTNS 2017
October 6, 2017
The International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS) recognized doctoral students Catherine Nemitz and Tanya Amert with the Best Student Paper Award for 2017. The paper, “Real-Time Multiprocessor Locks w … Read more
Students face off in the first ever Carolina Data Challenge
September 17, 2017 | The Daily Tar Heel
Eyes focused on computer screens, students from across the state spent their weekend analyzing data sets and competing at the first ever Carolina Data Challenge. In partnership with the National Consortium for Data Scien … Read more
Service through technology (profile of CS major Zareen Farooqui)
August 15, 2017 | UNC.edu Spotlight
Zareen Farooqui is a junior studying business administration and computer science at UNC-Chapel Hill. This summer, she’s using the knowledge she gained in her classes to revamp United Way of the Greater Triangle’s Teamin … Read more
Pasunuru, Bansal earn Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2017
August 14, 2017
Mohit Bansal Ramakanth Pasunuru First-year doctoral student Ramakanth Pasunuru and assistant professor Mohit Bansal earned an Outstanding Paper Award at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2017 conference … Read more

Baykal, Alterovitz earn Best Paper at RSS 2017
July 17, 2017
Cenk Baykal (B.S. 2015) and associate professor Ron Alterovitz earned the Best Paper award at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their paper, “Asymptotically Optimal Design of Piecewise … Read more

Full-time UNC student runs a corporation
July 12, 2017 | The Daily Tar Heel
While most students feel accomplished to get a summer internship or make an A in a class, one of their peers has been running a company since he was 16 years old. Linker Logic Technologies Inc., founded by CEO Ritwik Pav … Read more

Monrose named Kenan Distinguished Professor
July 5, 2017
Professor Fabian Monrose was named a Kenan Distinguished Professor, effective July 1, 2017. The Kenan Distinguished Professorship will provide Monrose’s salary, benefits and additional research funds. The announcement fr … Read more

Computer scientist helps make breakthroughs in sound simulation
June 30, 2017 | College of Arts and Sciences
While the quality of visual images in video games and virtual reality continues to advance impressively with technology improvements, the sound and music quality of those games haven’t kept pace. A team of faculty and st … Read more

Department of Computer Science celebrates 286 graduates at 2017 commencement ceremony
May 31, 2017
On May 14, the UNC Department of Computer Science recognized 286 graduates in its annual commencement ceremony in Carmichael Arena. The department recognized degree candidates for May 2017 as well as those who received d … Read more