October 7, 2014
Congratulations to Kien Hua for receiving $161,661 from NASA Shared Services Center for a project titled: “Fusing Human and Machine Intelligence for a Modern Spaceport with Efficiency and Enhanced Spaceflight Safety”.
September 24, 2014
During April, Dr. Mubarak Shah’s computer vision research was presented at two leading Brazilian academic / research universities. Presentations were made at the University of Sao Paulo (Universidade de Sao Paulo, USP) and the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, ITA.)
September 19, 2014
Congratulations also to Dr. Avelino Gonzalez, who has a newly opened exhibit on the Turing Test at the Orlando Science Center. A piece about this aired on September 17 on Channel 35 news.
September 19, 2014
Congratulations to CS PhD student Faraz Hussain and Dr. Sumit Jha, who have received the Best Paper award at the 4th IEEE International Conference
September 10, 2014
Dr. Charles Hughes will give an invited keynote talk at the “Emerging Multimedia Applications and Services for Smart Cities” Workshop, which is part of the ACM Multimedia Conference. The talk will be titled “Human Surrogates: Remote Presence for Collaboration and Education in Smart Cities”.
August 11, 2014
Congratulations to Dr. Ladislau Boloni, whose paper “Autobiography-based prediction in a situated AGI agent” received the Kurtzweil Best AGI Idea Prize 2014 at the Artificial General Intelligence conference (AGI-2014) in Quebec City.
August 11, 2014
UCF undergraduate Grant Hernandez is featured in an interview that may air on CNN talking about the security of the Nest thermostat, which can be seen in the following link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/08/07/t-nest-thermostat-hack.cnnmoney/
August 8, 2014
Congratulations to Dr. Sumit Jha on receiving $215,035 in funding from the NSF for a project titled: XPS: EXPL: FP: Collaborative Research: Formal Methods Based Algorithmic Synthesis of More-than-Moore Nano-Crossbars for Extreme-scale Computing.
August 5, 2014
Congratulations to PhD student Lisa Soros and professor Kenneth Stanley, who won the Best Poster Award for their poster “Identifying Necessary Conditions for Open-Ended Evolution through the Artificial Life World of Chromaria,” at the Fourteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE 14).
July 28, 2014
Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Stanley and former CS PhD alumnus Dr. Brian Woolley. On July 17th their paper,