2015 News

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Hughes for receiving two awards.

Congratulations to the UCF Programming Team for their strong performance at the ACM Southeast Regional Programming Contest that was held on Saturday, November 14th.

Members of the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team met with Congressman John Mica at the US Capitol last Thursday morning.

Congratulations to members of the UCF Collegiate Cyber Defense Club for outstanding participation in the CSI CyberSEED Competition. Of the 32 schools that participated, UCF’s team finished 1st in Capture the Flag, 1st in Social Engineering, and 2nd in Internet of Things.

An article in UCF Today (http://today.ucf.edu/ucf-researchers-perform-worlds-first-automated-mass-crowd-count/) describes how researchers from the UCF Center from Research in Computer Vision

Congratulations to Dr. Kien Hua on receiving $130,000 in new funding from NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) for a project titled “Tabletop: A Multimedia Communication System for Efficient Team Management and Collaboration”.

A team of 5 UCF students will compete in the final phase of the “National Cyber Analyst Challenge” on November 6th at the Lockheed Global Vision Center in Pentagon City.

Jonathan Singer, who is a Security Engineer at GuidePoint Security and an alumnus of our IT degree program, was named an “Emerging Technology Leader of the Year” in the “30 and under” category, by the Tampa Bay Technology Forum.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph LaViola who, with Steve Fiore (IST/Philosophy) received $260K from the Office of Naval Research for a project titled: “Interactive Visualization In Support Of Decision Making Under Uncertainty”.

Dr. Kenneth Stanley gave a talk on his new book, Why Greatness Cannot be Planned: The Myth of the Objective, at the TTI/Vanguard conference in Washington DC, September 30, 2015.