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Joseph S. Friedman, who leads the NeuroSpinCompute Lab at UT Dallas, with the prototype neuromorphic computer designed to learn patterns using far fewer training computations than today’s AI systems.[Photo: UTD]
UT Dallas Team Builds Neuromorphic Computer That Could Cut AI Training Costs
by Maddie Preston | Nov 24, 2025
The brain-inspired design could lower the energy and compute costs behind AI training requirements, an increasingly urgent challenge for enterprises.
by Quincy Preston |
Oct 16, 2025
Permanent crowns custom printed in all-ceramic zirconia could soon be a chair-side reality for dental patients, thanks to University of Texas at Dallas researchers. Backed by a $550,000 National Science Foundation grant, the team is working to commercialize the technology.
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by Maddie Preston |
Sep 27, 2025
The UTD team’s approach adapts a chip-security technique to biology. The breakthrough gives biotech companies a new way to prevent costly misidentification and protect intellectual property.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 13, 2025
The Fort Worth City Council unanimously approved $15 million in incentives Tuesday night as founder John Lauer commits to making Fort Worth home for what he calls the world's first cloud-connected electronics prototyping facility. "This is going to completely revolutionize the electronics industry," he says.
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North Texas innovators on a national stage: The Dallas College AVIADAR team and their mentor at the 2025 Community College Innovation Challenge in D.C. (left to right) Khai Huynh, Mang Cin, Professor L. Taylor Starr, Chris Zuniga, and Taylor Hill. [Photo: Dallas College]
Dallas College Engineering Team Wins Third in U.S. Innovation Challenge With LiDAR-Based Aviation Safety Tech
by Lance Murray | Jun 18, 2025
The student-built startup concept aims to reduce aircraft fatalities—and caught NASA’s eye.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 3, 2025
Backed by a National Science Foundation grant, the project’s key innovation is WHEELCOM—a device that captures wheelchair movement data to help engineers design smarter, more inclusive buildings.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 12, 2024
“We're excited about this opportunity with the National Science Foundation and cannot wait to make our prototype available to further democratize access to higher education and meet global changes in workforce demand,” Learning Bridge CEO Laura Hayes said. The Allen-based nonprofit is a fellow of United Way Dallas' 2025 Social Innovation Accelerator.
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by Quincy Preston |
Aug 9, 2024
With a new CEO and three seasoned industry veterans joining its board, Research Bridge Partners is focused on moving university innovations from the lab to the marketplace.
Last year, the Texas-based nonprofit, in collaboration with Lyda Hill Philanthropies, invested $4 million into North Texas’ UT Southwestern Medical Center, bolstering efforts to transform groundbreaking research into viable companies.
Last year, the Texas-based nonprofit, in collaboration with Lyda Hill Philanthropies, invested $4 million into North Texas’ UT Southwestern Medical Center, bolstering efforts to transform groundbreaking research into viable companies.
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Waymaker Group Founder and CEO Julie Huls [Photo: Waymaker]
Dallas’ Waymaker Group To Collaborate with the NSF and MIT’s The Engine on $9.5M Innovation Platform
by Lance Murray | Apr 17, 2024
Waymaker Group will collaborate with MIT's The Engine Accelerator as the operational and services partner, and provide NSF's awardees with education, resources, and extensive support services.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 29, 2024
The free "Sun, Moon, and You" event at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas' Fair Park will offer a sky-side seat of an amazing total solar eclipse (fingers crossed for clear skies). Scientists and astronomers will be taking the stage along with space explorer characters from the PBS show "Ready, Jet, Go."
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 28, 2024
In an effort to expand the research beyond snakes, UTA Biology Professor Todd Castoe and his colleagues received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation that will support new statistical approaches to generate, test, and refine hypotheses for how gene regulatory networks function.
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by Quincy Preston |
Feb 6, 2024
Neal Smatresk's decade at UNT sparked big changes and growth, boosting its standing in academics and research. From "record-breaking enrollment" to "making UNT the highest-ranked Tier One institution in the North Texas region," his tenure marks transformation across multiple fronts.
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UTA Electrical Engineering Professor Yan Wan [Photo: UT Arlington]
UTA Professor Gets $800K To Develop Drone Computing Platform for First Responders
by David Seeley | Aug 21, 2023
Electrical Engineering Professor Yan Wan has received $800,000 in National Science Foundation funding to develop an open-networked airborne computing platform for drones used by first responders. Networking a system of "robots in the air" can help find disaster victims, guide rescuers, and more. Her work could also be used for drone delivery and other commercial applications, UTA says.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Feb 16, 2023
North Texas universities are gearing up for the AI revolution, readying students for the jobs of tomorrow. Here's a look at what's happening at SMU, TCU, the University of North Texas, UT Arlington, and UT Dallas, as published in our annual 2023 Dallas Innovates magazine.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 4, 2022
With mega-droughts drying up lakes out west and "water wars" predicted in the world's future, having reliable access to water is becoming more and more vital.
A team at UT Dallas led by Dr. Xianming “Simon” Dai is doing something about it. They're working on a tech platform that could enable anyone to have "an affordable, portable device that could access water anywhere, anytime conceivably using no external energy," according to the university.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Sep 26, 2022
Sullivan, an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at UT Arlington, was recently awarded a three-year, $490,000 grant from the National Science Foundation "to explore testing software updates without testing unchanged parts of the code."
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