News

Congratulations to students of Damian Dechev Steven Feldman and Pierre LaBorde who came back from their conference trip last week with the Best Paper Award from the 13th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems

The Department of EECS Computer Science Division is pleased to announce the launch of its new Senior Design website. Visit the website at http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/cssd/.

Congratulations to Dr. Ken Stanley, whose recent article, “Evolvability Is Inevitable: Increasing Evolvability without the Pressure to Adapt,” was published at Science Daily. The article also can be found here.

Congratulations to both Dr. Cliff Zou and Joe LaViola on winning TIP awards this year.

Dr. Kien A. Hua was officially made a Pegasus professor at the Founder’s day convocation on April 3, 2013. He joins a group of distinguished colleagues who have been recognized as exemplars in the excellence with which they accomplish each component of the university’s tri-partite mission of teaching research and service.

In recognition of her outstanding research efforts, Dr. Gita Sukthankar won a UCF Research Incentive Award for the 2012-2013 academic year.

The Collegiate Cyber Defense Club’s competition team won 1st Place and also Best-in-Services at the 2013 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition ( seccdc.org ) held March 5-7 at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

The CRA-W/CDC Distinguished Lecture Series jointly presented by Florida Institute of Technology, Rollins College, and UCF, will be on March 26, 2013 starting at 4:30pm in HEC 101. Visit http://crawcdc.eecs.ucf.edu for more information.

Work of our own Dr. Marshall Tappen on computer vision algorithms to “accurately track the nesting routes of endangered sea turtles,” is described in an article in UCF Today.

The New Scientist has an article about a storytelling program, written by CS professor Ladislau Bölöni, http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628945.700-storytelling-software-learns-how-to-tell-a-good-tale.html