Category: Computer Science

CS Grad Student Zhiyuan Lu to Present RQE March 5

Zhiyuan Lu, a Department of Computer Science graduate student, will present his RQE lecture on Friday, March, 5, 2021, at 4:00 p.m. The lecture will be presented virtually. Lecture Title Improving the Performance of NVM Crash Consistency under Multicore Lecture Abstract Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) systems require log schemes to ensure crash consistency, introducing severe performance . . .

CS Dept. Lecture: Hongyu An, ECE, Friday, March 5

The Department of Computer Science will present a lecture by Assistant Professor Hongyu An, ECE, on Friday, March 5, 2021, at 3:00 p.m. An’s lecture is titled, “Designing an Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic System through Two-Layer Memristive Synapses.” An will introduce Brain-inspired Computing, an emerging approach for an energy-efficient artificial intelligent system through hardware and software co-design. . . .

Leo Ureel Receives 2020-21 CTL Award for Innovative Teaching

The 2020-2021 CTL Instructional Award for Innovative or Out of Class Teaching is being presented to two instructors, and Assistant Professor Leo Ureel, Computer Science, and Libby Meyer, senior lecturer, Visual and Performing Arts. Ureel was nominated in recognition of his “student-centric efforts which have increased retention and diversified the cohort of first-year computing students.” . . .

Vijay Garg, UT Austin, to Present Lecture Feb. 19, 3 pm

This lecture has been canceled. Dr. Vijay Garg, University of Texas Austin, will present a lecture on February 19, 2021, at 3:00 p.m. The lecture is hosted by the Department of Computer Science. Vijay Garg Bio Vijay Garg is a Cullen Trust Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University . . .

ICPC Programming Competition Info Session Is Feb. 11, 6 pm

What: Info Session: ICPC Programming CompetitionWhen: Thursday, February 11, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.Where: Zoom An information session about the ICPC Programming Competition will take place this Thursday, February 11, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. ICPC Programming Competition, North America North Central Regionals, will be held, Saturday, February 27, 2021. The contest will be held remotely using the Kattis contest . . .

Yakov Nekrich Paper Accepted for Top Computing Conference

A publication by Associate Professor Yakov Nekrich, Computer Science, has been accepted to the 53rd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC). The paper, “Optimal-Time Dynamic Planar Point Location in Connected Subdivisions,” describes an optimal-time solution for the dynamic point location problem and answers an open problem in computational geometry.  The data structure described in the . . .