E. Allen Emerson, a beloved and long-serving member of the faculty in Computer Science at UT Austin and a renowned Computer ...

Instead of the traditional double-major route, which often requires juggling separate degree plans, X+CS combines two fields ...

UT Austin’s Scott Aaronson and his former postdoctoral researcher, Shih-Han Hung, played a key role in demonstrating the ...

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Many students find this course difficult, so a first-rate math background is highly recommended. See the Review Sheet for material you're ...

Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030. Peter Stone, Rodney Brooks, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ryan Calo, Oren Etzioni, Greg Hager, Julia Hirschberg, Shivaram ...

Did you know that video games constitute a larger entertainment industry than the international film industry and all professional sports combined? In 2024, the gaming industry generated an estimated ...

Our students and faculty are changing the world through their contributions to computing education, research, and industry. These awards received by members of the UT Computer Science community make ...

In reinforcement learning (RL), a reward function that aligns exactly with a task's true performance metric is often sparse. For example, a true task metric might encode a reward of 1 upon success and ...

Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion. Nate Kohl and Peter Stone.