News

Gaelan Adams, Hack@UCF media spokesperson, was interviewed by Louis Bolden, Channel 6 News, on Smart TV privacy risks on Monday’s 11pm News. The interview can be found here.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola II for receiving $40,000 in new funding from Coda Enterprises, LLC for a project titled “Exploring the Benefits of 3D Spatial IDEs”.

Congratulations to the Collegiate Cyber Defense Club @ UCF (Hack@UCF) and their advisor, Dr. Thomas Nedorost, for winning the top award for collegiate cybersecurity teams for a second consecutive year.

Congratulations to Dr. Mainak Chatterjee for receiving $36,000 from Athena Technologies for a project titled: “Modeling and Simulation of Heterogeneous Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks”.

Dr. Ken Stanley did a Fox 35 studio interview about artificial intelligence. The story was done in light of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement to have an AI personal assistant this year. You can watch the interview at this link: http://www.fox35orlando.com/good-day/69853221-video.

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Foroosh on receiving $14,268 from the Florida High Tech Corridor matching grants program for a project titled: “Rapid Automated 3D Terrain Modeling from Airborne Data”.

UCF’s Cyber Defense Team scores another victory to wrap up the 2015 calendar year. Four members of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Club @ UCF (aka Hack@UCF) won the Panoply Hackathon competition at ALM’s CyberSecure Conference in NYC on December 15th and 16th.

Congratulations to Drs. Sumit Jha and Narsingh Deo for receiving at total of $5,208.00 from NVIDIA (and $9,098.00 in matching funds from CS) for a project titled “The UCF Computer Science CUDA Teaching Laboratory for Core Courses”.

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley for receiving $10,000.00 plus $22,000.00 from Soar Technology, Inc. for a project titled “Soar Tech HyperNEAT Collaboration (DoD STTR Phase I)”.

Congratulations to Dr. Gary T. Leavens for receiving $320,000.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project