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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Everything is bigger in Texas, and our computers are no exception.
In 2011, UT won a competition held by the National Science Foundation to develop and house the first Stampede supercomputer. It was...
