Computer science researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a sarcasm detector. Social media has become a dominant form of communication for individuals, and for companies looking to market and sell their products and services. Properly understanding and…

University of Central Florida researchers are building on their technology that could pave the way for hypersonic flight, such as travel from New York to Los Angeles in under 30 minutes. In their latest research published Monday in the journal Proceedings…

Fast Company magazine named a developing technology pioneered at UCF as one of its 2021 “World Changing Ideas.” A panel of editors and reporters selected the winners from more than 4,000 nominations. Assistant Professor of Engineering Ben Sawyer ’14MS ’15PhD and his team…

Bryan Medina ’21 is deeply intrigued by memories — both capturing them and understanding what triggers us to relive them. The computer science major who earned his bachelor’s from UCF this semester was born and raised in Miami, where music and dancing play…

UCF’s Programming Team has advanced to the North American championship round of the 2021 International Collegiate Programming Contest — and won’t have to travel far to get there. The ICPC, the oldest and most prestigious collegiate programming contest, will hold…

UCF’s Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team has again won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition sponsored by Raytheon, the world’s largest competition of its kind. This is the fourth time UCF has taken the top spot. UCF won the national championship…

UCF’s Collegiate Cybersecurity Competition Team heads into the upcoming National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition after beating eight other teams last weekend to win the regional title and advance. The team hopes to regain the national title after having won the…

A record-breaking 16 UCF students and alumni — eight from the College of Engineering and Computer Science — were named National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows this year. An additional seven singled out for honorable mentions. Started in 1952,…

Nuisance flooding has increased on U.S. coasts in recent decades due to sea level rise, and new research co-authored by the University of Central Florida uncovered an additional reason for its added frequency. In a study appearing today in the…

Two UCF students are among 43 nationwide who have been chosen to receive the inaugural Patti Grace Smith Fellowship for Black aerospace undergraduates. Alexandria Baca, a first-year student, and Loubensky Baine, a second-year student, were selected for the new honor…

Making sure spacecraft don’t crash into each other or into space junk is at the center of Assistant Professor Tarek A. Elgohary’s research at UCF’s Astrodynamics and Space Robotics Laboratory. Using analytical and computational methods in addition to machine learning…