Computer Science and Engineering

UNT Team 1 consisting of (L-R) Daniel Hooper, Robert Mitchell-Burke and James Pascoe has been invited to the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Harbin, China from February 1-6, 2010. This team placed 2nd in the 2009 ACM South Central Regional Programming Competition at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma in early November.

IEEEXtreme 3.0 programming competition was held in October. The UNT programming team consisting of Robert Mitchell-Burke, James Pascoe, and Wyatt Chastain finished in the top ten. More than 700 teams from universities in 40 countries and the ten Regions of IEEE participated.

Rada Mihalcea, Associate Professor for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, received the UNT Early Career Award for Research and Creativity on November 2, 2009. This award recognizes faculty members in their first ten years in a full-time faculty appointment whose research or creative endeavors have been truly outstanding.

The CSE course schedule Spring 2010 is now available for viewing on the department website. As more faculty course assignments are known, they will be added first to this website's listing, so always check our site first.

The CSE Department September 2009 Student and Alumni Email Newsletters have been sent. You can view the student newsletter online HERE, and the alumni newsletter online HERE

Congratulations go to the Computer Science and Engineering Summer Graduates. A full list of our graduates can be seen here.

After eight years as the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dr. Krishna Kavi is stepping down at the end of Summer 2009. He will then focus on the new NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Net-Centric Software and Systems and spend more time on his personal research and teaching. Dr. Kavi is also exploring the possibility of spending a semester at the National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan to establish stronger collaborations with faculty and industry there.

Dr. Krishna Kavi, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was quoted in the New York Times article "Airlines Study Alternatives to Jets’ Black Boxes" about his idea to transmit in real time the information from the flight data recorder. Read the NY Times article from July 13, 2009.

Rada Mihalcea has won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor a beginning scientist or engineer can receive in the United States. She is among the top 100 university researchers nationwide, among a dozen professors who received a NSF CAREER award, and the only professor in the Dallas/Fort Worth region to achieve this recognition. For more information, see this UNT press release.

Robocamp at UNT was one of 18 programs to receive a grant for young people to attend summer youth camps that focus on science, techology, engineering, and math (STEM). The Department of Computer Science and Engineering received $42,000 for 40 scholarships to teach participants coding and programming principles using computers and gaming consoles, and the role of physics and mathematics in game design. For more information, see this TWC press release.