Recent CSE Highlights
Programming team
- Second place out of 50+ teams in ACM regional contest (1996)
- Third place out of 50+ teams in the ACM regional contest (1997)
- Team Pioneer won AAAI Life on Mars robotics contest (1998)
New scholarships
- Computer Science Corporation Scholarship -- $12,000 (10 $1,200 stipends)
- INET Woolf Scholarship -- $5,000 stipend + $5,000 summer internship
- Texas Telecommunications Consortium (TxTEC) -- 10 UG scholarships ($1,000), 4 grad student scholarships ($10,000) [share with EE]
1997 ARP/ATP grants
- Diane Cook and Larry Holder, Scalable Knowledge Discovery from Large Complex Databases, $108,346.
- Pei Hsia and David Kung, OOTWorks: Tools for Object-Oriented Software Testing, $311,850 + $345,000 in matching funds from industry.
- Karan Harbison and Susan Barber (UT Austin), Adapting the Automony of Sensible Agents: Coordinated Systems Operating in Complex, Dynamic Manufacturing Domains, $127,116.
National Rankings
- 1996 -- UTA ranked 20th in the USA in computer science research expenditures [$8,641,000]
- 1997 -- UTA ranked 9th in the USA in computer science research expenditures [$15,187,000]