Computer Science and Engineering

Dr. Ian Parberry Interim Chair

Dr. Costas Tsatsoulis, Dean of the UNT College of Engineering, has announced that the Chair Search for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been unsuccessful and will be reopened in Fall 2010. Further, he announced that Dr. Ian Parberry has graciously accepted his invitation to serve as Interim Chair for a second year. Dean Tsatsoulis thanked Dr. Parberry for his dedication to the CSE Department, faculty and UNT and looks forward to working with him in 2010-2011.

The CSE Department April 2010 Student Email Newsletter have been sent. You can view the student newsletter online HERE.

Dr. Krishna M. Kavi, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, directs the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center to create cutting-edge software that will make it possible for complete computer networks to link together ground troops, air combat personnel, snipers, decision makers, soldiers and superiors so that snap decisions may be made to hit enemy targets and to avoid civilian casualties. The Net-Centric Software and Systems Center also includes two other universities and about a dozen high-tech companies. The Chronicle of Higher Education features the NSF Center in this article. For more information, go to http://netcentric.cse.unt.edu/.

UNT Laboratory for Recreational Computing has been included in The Princeton Review’s list of the Top 50 Undergraduate Game Design Programs. LARC, established in 1993 by Dr. Ian Parberry, offers classes in game programming leading to the Certificate in Game Programming and the degrees of BS, MS and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering. For more information see this UNT press release and this NT Daily article.

The CSE Department February 2010 Student and Alumni Email Newsletters have been sent. You can view the student newsletter online HERE, and the alumni newsletter online HERE

The CSE Programming Team competed at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Harbin, China from February 1-6, 2010. The programming team is pictured (L-R) Robert Mitchell-Burke, James Pascoe and Daniel Hooper. CSE doctoral student Michael Mohler is the team’s coach. Dr. Ryan Garlick is the Faculty Advisor and accompanied the team to China.

The team is featured in this front page article on February 1, 2010, and in this editorial on February 2, 2010.

Photo by David Minton, Denton Record-Chronicle

Rada Mihalcea, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, was honored by President Barack Obama on January 13, 2010 as one of the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.

Dr. Ian Parberry Interim Chair

Welcome to UNT's Department of Computer Science and Engineering for the Spring 2010 semester! We have lots of activities planned, so check this website and the student email newsletters that we'll be sending out later. Good luck with all of your classes!

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

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