| Department News Headlines
2010 Headlines
MegaWatt Solar - The State of Things, WUNC (1/19/10)
Arts and humanities embrace technology - University Gazette - see page 3 (1/13/10)
2009 Headlines
Research by Touch - Renaissance Computing Institute (12/22/09)
UNC scientist recognized for work in computer graphics, robotics - College of Arts & Sciences News (12/4/09)
Scientist recognized for work in geometric computing, computer graphics and robotics - (12/3/09)
RENCI to Participate at SC09 - HPCWire (11/11/09)
Theme-park dummy trick becomes teleconference tool - New Scientist (11/2/09)
Beam Me to the Faculty Senate - Chronicle of Higher Education (10/18/09)
New Computer Graphics Systems Give Reality a Convincing Makeover - Scientific American (10/2/09)
UNC gets $8.6M award for new genetics center - Durham Herald-Sun (9/30/09)
Graduate student Narain receives Intel PhD Fellowship (9/30/09)
UNC wins $8.6 million NIH award to establish a Center of Excellence to study underlying causes of psychiatric disorders - UNC News Release (9/29/09)
Virtual Sandtable - Military Photos - strategypage.com (9/14/09)
SIGGRAPH 2009 Adds New Focus on Music & Audio - businesswire.com (7/24/09)
UNC-CH computer scientist receives $200,000 Microsoft fellowship
- WRAL.com Local Tech Wire (7/15/09)
UNC computer scientist receives Microsoft faculty fellowship - UNC News Release (7/15/09)
Lazebnik receives Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship (7/14/09)
Picture This! - Boeing Frontiers magazine (June 2009) (PDF)
Reiter provides input on President Obama's cybersecurity initiative - College of Arts & Sciences News (June 2009)
Inside These Lenses, a Digital Dimension - New York Times (4/25/09)
Scientist recognized for computer security innovations - WRAL.com Local Tech Wire (1/27/09)
UNC scientist recognized for computer security - Tech Journal South (1/22/09)
Scientist recognized for innovations in computer security - College of Arts & Sciences news (January 2009)
2008 Headlines
Video from the dedication of the Brooks Computer Science Building
Another honor for UNC computer science pioneer Fred Brooks: His name on a building
- WRAL.com Local Tech Wire (10/24/08)
Brooks Building dedication on Friday (Oct. 24) to honor computer science pioneer - UNC News Release (10/23/08)
UNC Spin-Off Company Receives $2 Million Grant To Market Cancer Treatment Technology - Medical News Today (9/8/08)
UNC spinoff lands $2 million grant - Triangle Business Journal (9/5/08)
Groups question UNC's defense department ties - Daily Tar Heel (3/25/08)
2007
Headlines
Graduate Student
Receives Marr Prize - News Release (11/16/07) - coming soon
Hettleman
Prize winners span the arts and sciences at UNC - UNC News Release
(9/14/07)
Ming C. Lin named
Beverly W. Long Distinguished Professor (July 2007)
Real-Time
Sound Synthesis and Propagation for Games - article and cover -
From Communications of the ACM (July 2007) (permission required)
Computer
Security Expert Michael Reiter Joins UNC’s Department of Computer
Science - News Release (6/29/07)
Brooks
honored with Harvard Centennial Medal - News Brief (6/27/07)
2007
Computer Science Commencement Photos
Virtual
Microscopy - Turning Bystanders Into Players - eAdvances - NIBIB
(5/7/07)
Computer
science professor Weiss receives UNC’s Thomas Jefferson Award
- UNC News Release (4/30/07)
Computer
science, business grads snag highest average salaries - From the
Daily Tar Heel (4/26/07)
APPLES
make an effort to make a difference - From the Daily Tar Heel (4/11/07)
Post-9/11
national security, civil liberties, technology explored at April 14
forum
- UNC News Release (4/10/07)
Carolina
team to compete in world finals of computer programming contest
- UNC News
Release (2/6/07)
Depth
Perception - feature on Ramesh Raskar (Ph.D. 2002) - From the Carolina
Alumni Review (Jan/Feb 2007)
Department
ranked 10th on CHE's Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (1/16/07)
2006 Headlines
Senator
doles out $1 million grant to UNC - From the Daily Tar Heel (10/4/06)
UNC
gets $1M grant to improve Army simulators - From the Herald-Sun
(10/2/06)
Computer
science scholar Manocha named Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason professor
- UNC News Release (6/12/06)
High
performance FFT on GPUs - From Slashdot (5/29/06)
Reed
to Co-Chair PCAST Networking and IT Subcommittee - RENCI News Release
(4/17/06)
2006
U.S. News & World Report rankings (3/31/06)
RENCI’s
Dan Reed Named to Presidential Council of Advisors
- RENCI News Release (2/28/06)
2005
Headlines
UNC
computer science prof gets $625,000 fellowship
(requires registration) - From the Triangle Business Journal (10/19/05)
Computer
science faculty member receives $625,000 fellowship for algorithm work
- UNC News Release (10/18/05)
Graphics
processors supercharge everyday apps - From tom's hardware guide
(6/30/05)
Impressive
Benchmarks: Sorting with a GPU
- From Slashdot (6/29/05)
Commerce
gives Commerce scoop on Bill Lee Act - mention of Wei Wang (requires
registration, link goes to correct page) - From the Triangle Business
Journal (6/10/05)
Computer
scientist receives first Microsoft faculty fellowship
- UNC News Release (5/27/05)
Navigating visual
impairment maze (not available online) - From the Herald-Sun (4/27/05)
Story about Maze
Day on NBC17 (4/26/05)
2004
Headlines
Big Blue's New
Chapter - opinion column mentioning Dr. Fred Brooks (not available online)
- From the News & Observer (12/9/04)
Jason McC. Smith
interviewed about Facetop on "Computers 2K4" (not available
online) - 850 the Buzz
(7/11/04)
Transparent
Desktop Opens Doors
- From Wired News (7/9/04)
- Also
linked from Slashdot.org (7/12/04)
Facetop:
Ghostly Videoconferencing - From Gizmodo (7/2/04)
Interface
blends screen and video
- From Technology Research News (6/30/04)
UNC to test 3-D
video - From the Herald-Sun (6/23/04)
Organizer
pulls giant blood collection together - From the News & Observer
(6/20/04)
Six
professors win 2004 Ueltschi Service-Learning Course Development Grants
- from the University Gazette (6/16/04)
UNC’s
Bryan Fellows begin summer service projects in North Carolina -
UNC News Release (6/15/04)
Giving
back: It's in her blood - from the University Gazette (5/19/04)
Daniel
Reed to head Information Technology - from the University Gazette
(5/19/04)
Seeing
Eye to Eye - Facetop puts partners on the same page - From Endeavors
(Spring 2004)
- Reprinted
in the University Gazette (6/16/04)
Toy
Power - From Endeavors (Spring 2004)
2004
Department Commencement Ceremony - with pictures! (5/10/04)
Department
Commencement Information (4/30/04)
- Link to University Commencement
Information
Triangle
Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series presents John Laird
(4/26/04)
Dr.
Gary Bishop receives Ueltschi Grant (4/14/04)
Sneak
Peeks at Tomorrow's Office - Greg Welch - From BusinessWeek Online
(4/13/04)
Q&A
With Frederick Brooks, Director Of IBM 360 Project - From InformationWeek
(4/12/04)
Mainframe Milestone - Fred Brooks - From
the News & Observer (4/7/04)
System/360 paid
off for IBM - Fred Brooks - From the Durham Herald-Sun (4/7/04)
Triangle
Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series presents Jonathan Turner
(4/5/04)
More
than a game
- Science Carolina Web site (4/2/04)
National
grant funds ‘3-D telepresence technology’ research to aid
medical professionals at remote sites - UNC News Services Release
- (3/31/04)
- Link
to story on the College of Arts & Sciences Web site (4/2/04)
- Link
to story in the University Gazette (4/7/04)
New
Summer Courses (COMP 190): Web Engineering, Perl Programming (3/29/04)
Triangle
Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series presents Stuart Russell
(3/29/04)
Staff
member Sandra Neely creates a work of art honoring the department
(2/4/04)
Dr.
Daniel A. Reed named UNC's first Kenan Eminent Professor
(12/17/03) |