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Buzzworthy breakthrough: BYU students utilize AI to decipher the ‘language of the bees’

July 26, 2023 10:10 AM
Google Translate for insects? How BYU students are helping humans understand animal communication
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BYU Animation students win "Student Emmy" for their short film Cenote

July 25, 2023 04:45 PM
An excerpt from the published BYU article "BYU students shine at 42nd College Television Awards with multiple top accolades"
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Can AI predict how you'll vote in the next election?

July 25, 2023 04:24 PM
BYU study proves artificial intelligence can respond to complex survey questions like a real human.
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BYU student created video game wins international award

July 25, 2023 12:55 PM
BYU was named the number five school in the world for game design.
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Buzzworthy breakthrough: BYU students utilize AI to decipher the ‘language of the bees’

Google Translate for insects? How BYU students are helping humans understand animal communication

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From Brazil to California: One Animator’s Path to Pixar

March 04, 2020 11:45 AM
In Pixar Animation Studios’ 2017 blockbuster Coco, one of the characters sums up his path to musical stardom: “No one was going to hand me my future. It was up to me to reach for my dream, grab it tight, and make it come true.”
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BYU Center for Animation claims sixth Student Academy Award

October 18, 2019 11:39 AM
BYU Animation’s most ambitious project to date took gold at the Student Academy Award competition in Los Angeles for their film Grendel. Read the full story here. To watch the full film, visit the BYU Center for Animation website.
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Center for Animation’s Grendel wins Student Academy Award

October 04, 2019 09:44 AM
For the sixth time since 2004, the BYU Center for Animation has received the prestigious distinction as a winner of the Student Academy Awards (SAA), an annual competition recognizing the most promising student filmmakers around the world. Out of 1,615 entries from 360 domestic and international institutions, the SAA recognized BYU’s short film Grendel as one of only 16 winners across all categories for 2019.
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New Initiative Encourages Diversity in Computer Science Field

November 21, 2018 12:00 PM
Angela Jones’ love of computers began at an early age. She still remembers the thrill of discovering her talent for coding during elementary school when her dad brought home a computer for the first time.
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Girls Code!

November 19, 2018 12:11 PM
During the second week of June, the Joseph Knight Building buzzed with the chatter of forty-one elementary-aged girls. These girls were the first campers to attend BYU’s pilot camp, Girls Code, a four-day coding camp for young girls.
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Internet security research garners facebook praise

November 13, 2018 12:17 PM
Computer science collaborators developed a new system that cuts the thousands of lines of code down to just a few. Click here for full story.
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BYU Animation Program Earns Top Ranking

October 04, 2018 02:51 PM
The Animation Career Review recently named Brigham Young University as the top animation school in the country. This announcement came only months after BYU animation students won the E3 Game Competition. Needless to say, it’s been a busy and wonderful year for the animation program. Click here to learn more.
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Playing with Swarms

May 24, 2018 03:43 PM
Hearing Dr. Michael Goodrich talk about his research in human-robot interaction, you might not realize that he works at all.
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YubiKey Usability Study Represents Undergraduate Research Success

May 23, 2018 01:46 PM
Joshua Reynolds will present research he completed as a BYU undergraduate on YubiKey usability at the 39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy on May 23, 2018. This is the top academic computer security conference where only 11 percent of all papers submitted were accepted this year. Kent Seamons, Reynolds’s faculty mentor, pointed out that it is rare for an undergraduate to be first author on a paper at this conference.
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BYU team wins $250,000 grant in Amazon Alexa Challenge

April 26, 2018 01:10 PM
Learn about Eve (short for Emotive Adversarial Ensembles), a socialbot run on the Alexa platform and created by a team of ten BYU computer science students
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Can technology enhance hiking? PhD student aims to find out

April 24, 2018 12:14 PM
Zann Anderson would rather be outdoors biking or hiking with his wife Amber and five children than indoors looking at a screen.
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BYU Students Tackle Big Data

April 03, 2018 12:16 PM
Computer science and statistics students sat huddled together, heads close together, animatedly debating which company they wanted to work for.
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Student Developed App is an Instagram Game Changer

March 27, 2018 12:29 PM
Millennials might need to put down their avocado toast for this news: BYU computer science student Candice Lusk has developed the perfect solution for 20-somethings posing for Instagram photos as they courageously backpack through Tibet and Thailand.
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