UNT Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) faculty member Dr. Ryan Garlick was featured on the History Channel beginning on November 14 in a five part series on the infamous Zodiac serial killer and the various coded messages he sent to newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Viewers were able to follow the code team digging into clues in the ciphers while working together with seasoned field investigators Sal LaBarbera and Ken Mains as they chased the many clues in the Zodiac case.

The "Code Team" was led by University of Southern California research director and computer science professor Kevin Knight and included University of North Texas computer science professor Ryan Garlick, Google staff research scientist Sujith Ravi, York University math and cryptology professor Craig Bauer, and Zodiac cipher expert David Oranchak.

Watch the trailer for The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer here and read the Denton Record-Chronicle news article here.