RESEARCH INSTITUTES
Human Language Technology (HLT)
HLT incorporates a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards two closely related goals: to enable computers to interact with humans using natural language capabilities; and to serve as useful assistants to humans by providing services such as automatic text understanding and retrieval, information extraction and question answering, automatic translation and speech recognition.
CyberSecurity and Emergency Preparedness Institute
The CyberSecurity and Emergency Preparedness Institute was created to help deal with the rapidly growing Homeland Security problems in cybercrime, information assurance and emergency preparedness. It is one of only a handful of entities of its kind in the United States and UTD will expand courses offerings in: Information Assurance, Secure Telecommunications Networks, Digital Forensics, Network Security, Data Mining and Multimedia and Emergency Response Information System. The Institute has three centers: CyberSecurity Research Center, Global Information Assurance Center and Emergency Preparedness Center.
