Department of Computer Science News
The Department of Computer Science is nationally and internationally recognized for research in theoretical and experimental computer science. We are especially known in areas such as real-time algorithms, information retrieval, document analysis, parallel computing, language design, software engineering, computer science education, graphics, computational geometry, networking, information customization, cybermedia, and internet security.
Current Computer Science News
Regardless of how policymakers settle the TikTok debate, cybersecurity challenges will continue.
By making computer programming more accessible in secondary education, UNLV professor Andy Stefik hopes to make coding easier for anyone to learn.
Piotr Tomasik, a computer science graduate and serial entrepreneur, is driving a local tech renaissance one internship — and startup — at a time through new UNLV program.
Computer science professor Shaikh Arifuzzaman on ChatGPT and what’s next for society as the revolutionary AI technology develops.
An enduring UNLV end-of-semester tradition is to highlight exceptional students who embody the academic, research, and community impact of the graduating class.
Faculty/staff donations to the annual holiday card tree fund have been providing scholarships for over 50 years.
Computer Science In The News
A change in how you drive on the Las Vegas Strip is coming soon. Zoox, a company creating autonomous vehicles, plans to roll out a fully autonomous taxi, or robotaxi, next year. The company says while the public will not be driven in the robotaxi until next year, they are already testing these new robotaxis on the strip.
A federal lawsuit joined by eight states accusing a large real estate software company of helping apartment managers collude to raise rates has brought increased attention to heightened rental rates across the country.
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.
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.
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.
These scholarships will help train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.
