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Department of Computer Science News

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Current Computer Science News

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Business and Community |

With funding from governor's office, StepUp & StartUp program has matched 50 UNLV students with local tech companies. 

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Business and Community |

National Science Foundation grant brings ‘pivotal boost’ to flourishing cybersecurity program at UNLV; program to fund scholarships for government service.

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Campus News |

A collection of news stories highlighting UNLV’s dedication to community and research.

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People |

The longtime career coach is helping Engineering students break into the burgeoning Southern Nevada tech start-up market.

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Campus News |

Future computer scientists are challenged to team up to make a car drive and race on its own.

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Business and Community |

Three recent grants to bolster training opportunities for UNLV students and assist Southern Nevada businesses in protecting against cyber attacks.

Computer Science In The News

Campus Safety

Swatting is the act of reporting fake threats to emergency responders to elicit a large law enforcement response. Many industries have repeatedly fallen victim to these calls, including K-12 schools. These false threats not only suck up and divert precious resources but they leave room for real dangers. 

Government Technology

Using over $3 million in grant funding from the NSF, the university will establish a new CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program to train cybersecurity professionals to work with AI and machine learning tools.

U.S. National Science Foundation

Awardees will dive into cutting-edge technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, hardware security and other interdisciplinary cybersecurity fields such as psychology and criminology. The projects undertaken by the scholarship recipients will be instrumental in shaping the future cybersecurity workforce and landscape.

KSNV-TV: News 3

These scholarships will help train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

It won’t be long until F1 race cars are roaring around Las Vegas, but some far smaller vehicles are already speeding in the classroom at UNLV. Computer science students are building cars and skills in a unique course with exciting, real-world applications. They recently took FOX5 along for a test drive.

Edscoop

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is preparing the expand the Free Cyber Clinic, which deploys students to help protect businesses from cybercrimes.

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Recent Computer Science Accomplishments

Professor Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article titled, "Generative Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Entropy, and the Big Sort," in the January 2024 issue of IEEE Computer. In this article, Berghel advances the argument that while artificial intelligence (AI) presents several threats to society, the threat that generative AI…
Avinash Yaganapu and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) published original research titled, "Multi-layered Self-attention Mechanism for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation," in Computer Vision and Image Understanding (IF: 4.5). This study proposed a new strategy that incorporates multi-layered self-attentions to enhance pseudo pixel-level…
Sai Kosaraju and Mingon Kang (both Computer Science) published internationally collaborative research titled, "Evidential deep learning for trustworthy prediction of enzyme commission number," in Briefings in Bioinformatics (IF: 9.5). This is a product of the four-year long project in collaboration with Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) and…
Hal Berghel's (Computer Science) recent article titled, "The Thousand Talents Program Prosecutions in Context," appears in the most recent (November 2023) issue of IEEE Computer. This article categorizes a sample of the recent convictions according to the legal issues mentioned in the court documents and concludes that it is not at all obvious…
Professor Hal Berghel (Computer Science) has published an article in the current (September, 2023) issue of IEEE Computer titled, "Fatal Flaws in ChatAI as a Content Generator." In this article, Berghel explains that content generation is actually one of the weakest capabilities of ChatAI, despite widespread popular fascination.
A recent article published in Ars Technica is based upon an earlier publication of UNLV professor Hal Berghel (Computer Science) on VoIP swatting. The Ars Technica article used Berghel's article as background in the announcement of the FBI's creation of a database on VoIP swatting to be shared by law enforcement.