Computer Science
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Summerhays Lecture: What do WordPerfect, the Provo Temple, and Thanksgiving Point have in common? ALAN ASHTON
Dr. Alan Ashton, former professor of computer science at BYU and co-founder and former president and CEO of WordPerfect Corporation, spoke at the Summerhays Lecture on October 12. His talk was titled “Light from on High Illuminates Science and Religion.”
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Researchers Use Wikipedia to Give AI Context Clues
Walk into a room, see a chair, and your brain will tell you that you can sit in it, tip it over or lift it up, but you wouldn’t even consider drinking it, promoting it or unlocking it. As humans, explains BYU computer science professor David Wingate, we know intuitively that certain verbs pair naturally with certain nouns, and we also know that most verbs don’t make sense when paired with random nouns.
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WordPerfect Co-founder to Deliver Summerhays Lecture
Dr. Alan Ashton, co-founder and former president and CEO of WordPerfect, will present at the annual Summerhays Lecture on Thursday, October 12, 2017, at 7 p.m. in room 2254 of the BYU Conference Center. Ashton’s lecture is titled “Light from on High Illuminates Science and Religion.”
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This Alum Wants to Turn Your House into a Robot
You don’t need to talk to Lanny Lin for very long before you learn what his passion is.
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Shaken and Stirred: The Simulation of Sand Stimulation
Dr. Parris Egbert knows sand—really knows sand.
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How Secure are Your Messages?
Researchers at BYU have learned that most users of popular messaging apps Facebook Messenger, What’sApp and Viber are leaving themselves exposed to fraud or other hacking because they don’t know about or aren’t using important security options.
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BYU Back to E3 with Nokbak
They spent a year brainstorming, creating, designing and revising (and revising and revising), and last week, a team of BYU students took their capstone-project video game to the industry’s largest showcase: the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).
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Why Google’s Next Recruit is a Popstar in the Philippines
Recent computer science graduate Jake Mingus spends his weekdays looking at lines of code on computer screens. He spends his weekends dancing and singing on the computer screens in the Philippines.
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Another Student Emmy Nom — This Time with Accompanying Wedding Bells
It’s not a love story. And it is.
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Modern Tech Meets Ancient Text
Computer programs interpret languages like HTML, XML, Java, PHP with no problem. But ancient handwritten text? BYU professor Bill Barrett and his team of undergraduate and graduate students are determined to create a program that will do just that—and to a large degree, they already have.
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Training Computers, Helping Humans
A trio of BYU profs plans to use top NSF award to revolutionize digital capabilities
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Student-created Budgeting App Will Finally Save Your Budget
You’ve tried it all: spreadsheets, software, the envelope system. And despite your best efforts, it seems like every month you blow your budget.
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WWII Vet, One of the First Computer Science Faculty, Shares Story
Norman Wright has boxes—a lot of boxes. They hold countless records of history about BYU, computer science, and WWII.
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CPMS Alum Cui Tao Wins Presidential Award
Cui Tao’s love for both biology and computer science has led to more than an accomplished research and teaching career—it has earned her one of Barack Obama’s final awards before the former president left office in January.
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Battle of the “Bad Actors”: One Professor’s Quest for Internet Safety
He wants to make the world safer—the cyberspace world, that is.
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Animation Students Create Quick, Easy-to-learn Video Game and Find Mainstream Success
Only three days after the launch of the Vanguards video game — the BYU Center for Animation students’ senior project — 1,500 people had already downloaded and played it.
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Professor Researches Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi, Returns to BYU
Jacob Crandall used to look at sand dunes from his office window in Abu Dhabi. Now, BYU’s newest computer science professor looks out at Utah’s Squaw Peak instead. Whatever the location, Crandall is ready and eager to continue his research.
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