Social Disparities in Air Pollution

Social Disparities in Air Pollution

Wei Xing, Ross Whitaker and Miriah Meyer of the U’s School of Computing are part of a team that helped build an air quality sensor network and are now participating in a new pollution study.  Read more...

EAE TO HOLD GRADUATION IN GAME

EAE TO HOLD GRADUATION IN GAME

While colleges around the country have cancelled their graduation ceremonies due to the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors and graduating master’s students from the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering (EAE) games program are still holding their convocation...  Read more...

Ed Catmull to Receive Turing Award

Ed Catmull to Receive Turing Award

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that University of Utah School of Computing alumnus Ed Catmull, co-founder and former president of Pixar Animation Studios, will receive the ACM A.M. Turing Award, referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing.”  Read more...

Mary Hall Elected to CRA Board of Directors

Mary Hall Elected to CRA Board of Directors

After four years serving as an ACM representative on the CRA Board of Directors, Professor Mary Hall was voted in by the CRA member institutions, which is comprised of chairs of computer science departments throughout the country. Professor Hall will serve on the board for three years.  Read more...