Computer Science and Engineering

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering welcomes Dr. Costas Tsatsoulis as the new Dean of the UNT College of Engineering. For more information, read this UNT press release: http://web3.unt.edu/news/story.cfm?story=11047.

The tentative 2008 Fall Course Schedule for CSE has now been posted at the site here.

As the department becomes aware of updates and teacher assignments, this schedule will be kept up to date with the latest information, even faster than the university website.

The 2008 April edition of the CSE Student Email Newsletter has been sent to our students and other interested parties. To see the newsletter, go HERE.

The Knapsackers@UNT, Robert Burke, Hector Cuellar and John Rizzo, competed at the ACM World Finals in Banff Springs, Alberta, Canada, April 6-9, after winning first place in the ACM South Central Regional contest last semester. The team received an Honorable Mention for their efforts at the contest, which was won by a team from the St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics. A team from MIT placed second. Pictures from the trip can be seen in the Media Gallery section here.

The Knapsackers@UNT programming team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering were named winners of the IEEExtreme 2008 24-hour Programming Challenge on March 29th, 2008 after two weeks of judging to determine the winners of the March 8-9 competition. IEEE Extreme is sponsored by the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an international professional society that also sponsors student branches on numerous college campuses.

Welcome to the new UNT Computer Science & Engineering website!

The new site includes all of the department information as before, including faculty links, degree program information, and the most up-to-date course schedules, and new features are provided, including a comprehensive media gallery.

Tell us what you think of the new site. Contact us at donr {AT} unt.edu.

The Texas Codeboys competed Sunday, February 24th, in the first round Qualifier for the Challenge 24 Programming contest. They placed 4th and have qualified for the final round in Budapest for the 3rd year in a row. The next closest USA team this year was a team from Johns Hopkins Univ at 123rd place. The top 30 teams qualify for the final round, chosen from over 170 teams that competed in the qualifying round.

The dates for Robocamp 2008 have been announced and the website is now available at http://www.cse.unt.edu/robocamp.

There will be 4 open enrollment camps, 2 closed camps in Lewisville, 2 Counselor Robocamps and 2 Advanced Robotics Workshops for Robocamp alumni. The registration period is MArch 1 to April 15. More details on the website.

The CSE Department February 2008 Alumni Email Newsletter has been sent to our alumni and other interested parties. You can view this newsletter online HERE.

UNT took two teams to the ACM South Central Regional Programming Competition at Texas A&M on Saturday, November 3rd. After 5 hours of continuous programming, Team 1 solved 8 out of 9 problems (the only team to solve 8 problems).

The problem set included guiding a laser beam through a maze of objects with reflectors and splitters. UNT teams placed first and eleventh out of 76 teams throughout the Southcentral United States. This is the first time a UNT team has advanced to the World Finals in the ACM Programming Contest sponsored by IBM. The World Finals will be held in April 2008 in Banff Springs, Alberta, Canada.