Four CECS undergrads are on a UCF team selected to take an experiment on NASA’s zero-gravity plane. One student has a Silicon Valley job waiting for him. July 21, 2014 – Never have UCF students been so excited at the…
Read More Sinkholes happen without warning, swallowing up homes, cars and sometimes people. It’s a natural phenomenon that no one can predict – but researchers at the University of Central Florida want to change that. They are working on developing a way…
Read More The University of Central Florida placed third in the nation and 21st in the world in the “World Cup” of computer programming competitions. UCF placed after New York University and the University of Texas at Brownsville in the World Finals…
Read More A University of Central Florida computer science research team has developed a facial recognition tool that promises to be useful in rapidly matching pictures of children with their biological parents and in potentially identifying photos of missing children as they…
Read More The eight-member UCF team that started as a grassroots effort to educate the community about cyber attacks and how to defend against them was just named the best cyber defense team in the nation. The team placed first in the…
Read More Knightro makes a stop at Hopson Middle School, located at the top of the world in Barrow, Alaska, overlooking the Arctic Ocean. Knightro has been to the northernmost football field in Alaska and to Hawaii. The squeezable, lovable miniature likeness…
Read More Computer science researcher Dr. Ken Stanley has met his match with donor Dr. Charles “Ed” Bailey, and he couldn’t be more pleased. The pair has found common ground about science. And about life. The UCF associate professor has built quite…
Read More The day finally arrived. UCF’s engineering and computer science Senior Design Day showcase on April 18 was a culmination of 30 weeks of, as one student described, “blood, sweat and tears.” Innovation was the star of the show – a…
Read More Launch bottle rockets, play giant Jenga, enjoy watching Rube Goldberg multi-step machines that zip-up zippers, and scarf down some free pancakes this week on the UCF main campus. The UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) invites everyone to…
Read More Flying at zero gravity is usually something reserved for astronauts in training or very wealthy people with cash to burn, but six UCF students will get the chance to do so in June, courtesy of NASA. NASA selected UCF’s team…
Read More With the effects of climate change hitting close to shore, two teams tackle summers that are coming too soon and cold spells that are freezing Florida. “It’s a great combination of strength actually,” said Michael Johnson, dean of the College…
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