Posts in Month: September 2017

September 19th, 2017

Human vs. Parallel Machine

Chess player playing against a computer

The University of Texas at Dallas’ Chess Team excelled at this year’s World Cup with Grandmaster Anton Kovalyov making it to Round 3, besting former world champion Viswanathan Anand in Round 2.  Performing at this level requires thousands of hours of preparation, evaluation, and position analysis, which in the ultra-competitive world of chess, has to …read more

September 14th, 2017

Discovery Center Grand Opening

Behavioral and Brain Sciences Professor Dr. Ted Price, VP of Sales and Marketing Americas Lee Wagstaff, and Interim VP of Research Rafael Martín at the ribbon cutting ceremony.

On September 13th, 2017, UT Dallas welcomed Olympus representatives to the opening of the Olympus Discovery Center, a collaborative effort to provide an imaging core of state-of-the-art instruments and technology. Created for both researchers on campus and external users to advance microscopy systems, this facility supports research in biological and interdisciplinary sciences, including hands-on training …read more