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Artists and engineers work together to bring animatronic dinosaurs to life

Radhika Vaishnav March 1, 2018

Although art and technology may seem like opposite ends of a spectrum, a class of students brought together the two disciplines to provide animatronic dinosaur suits for a play. The independent study...

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UT’s Knight Center experiments with building conversational bots

Sarah Seraj February 22, 2018

While use of conversational bots in journalism is fairly new, building these bots has never been easier, as demonstrated by an online course through UT’s Knight Center. The Knight Center for Journalism...

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Military teams of humans and robots aren’t too far from reality

Jennifer Liu February 16, 2018

Researchers from UT-Austin and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have teamed up to develop a new technique, called Deep TAMER, to teach robots and computer programs how to perform tasks with feedback from...

Virtual reality program allows journalists to tell more immersive stories

Alastair Talbot February 9, 2018

First, it was the internet, then came social media. Now, journalism has found another innovative way of captivating an audience’s attention through a new level of immersive technology: virtual reality. Virtual...

UT researchers develop thinnest memory storage device

Stephanie Zeller February 1, 2018

Last week, a team of electrical engineers at the University of Texas, in collaboration with scientists at Peking University, quietly developed the thinnest ever digital memory storage device.  ...

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Meltdown and Spectre are two computer chip vulnerabilities that raise concerns

Jennifer Liu February 1, 2018

The flu isn’t the only health scare that’s going around this season. Two recently discovered computer chip vulnerabilities — ominously nicknamed Meltdown and Spectre — pose gigantic...

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Amazon could bring tech jobs to Austin

Alastair Talbot January 30, 2018

Now that Austin is on the short list for the second Amazon headquarters, UT’s tech talent may make the city appealing to Amazon, according to Donald Fussell, computer science department chair. If...

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Green roof on Dell Medical School incorporates plant life into the city

Cason Hunwick January 30, 2018

Before construction started on the Dell Medical School, inaugural Dean Clay Johnston halted progress and insisted on the addition of a green roof. Green roofs are small plots of soil planted on urban...

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Shared autonomous cars could be better for the environment, civil engineers say

Therese Paoletta January 29, 2018

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to increase or decrease our carbon footprint depending on human behavior, according to civil engineers. As the advent of autonomous vehicles approaches, many scientists...

Student startup creates sun-tracking device for solar panels

Elizabeth Robinson December 7, 2017

While solar power is a useful alternative energy source wherever the sun shines, solar panels aren’t 100 percent efficient due to the changing angle of the sun in the sky. However, two UT students...

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Researchers use supercomputers to study the West Nile virus

Areeba Khwaja November 30, 2017

Using the computing powers of the Texas Advanced Computing Center, TACC, at UT-Austin, researchers are making progress on the biological mechanisms of West Nile virus. The computational heavy lifting was...

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UT-Austin and Giant Magellan Telescope Organization begin casting fifth of seven mirrors

Kevin Dural November 30, 2017

Weighing upwards of 150 tons and 25 meters in diameter, the Giant Magellan telescope will not be your average backyard telescope. In early November, UT-Austin joined other universities to initiate the...

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