The University of Texas at Austin has been selected to lead the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins, a new $20 million ...

Artificial intelligence is very loosely regulated in the U.S. What kinds of laws would help make AI safer and more useful for ...

to practice using Java ArrayLists to implement a program that uses multiple classes. (object based programming, encapsulation) to practice implementing individual classes based on a given ...

This is a section from the last essay written by Isaiah Berlin, published in the New York Review of Books, Vol. XLV, Number 8 (1998). Copyright: The Isaiah Berlin ...

Transfer Learning for Reinforcement Learning Domains: A Survey. Matthew E. Taylor and Peter Stone. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10(1):1633–1685, 2009.

Recent work has shown that deep neural networks are capable of approximating both value functions and policies in reinforcement learning domains featuring continuous state and action spaces. However, ...

Our students and faculty are changing the world through their contributions to computing education, research, and industry. These awards received by members of the UT Computer Science community make ...

We introduce a new entity typing task: given a sentence with an entity mention, the goal is to predict a set of free-form phrases (e.g. skyscraper, songwriter, or criminal) that describe appropriate ...

It is a misnomer. As Edsger Dijkstra used to say "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes". Computer Science is closely related to mathematics. It is the study ...

When creating copies of arrays or objects one can make a deep copy or a shallow copy. This explanation uses arrays. Recall array variables in Java are references (some folks say pointers, but there ...

I am a professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Texas at Austin where I lead the UToPiA research group. My primary research area is Programming Languages, with a current ...

I'm an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department and the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at the University of Texas at Austin. I was a PhD student at the ...