OVERVIEW Your fridge orders milk when you run low. Your thermostat kicks back on minutes before you return home. Your voice changes a channel or a music playlist. Enter the world of connected devices, or the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT market shows no signs of slowing. McKinsey & Company estimates that the worldwide …
Imagine earning cash for delivering an epic elevator pitch about your research. No need to imagine. Come check out UCF’s first 3MT Competition.
FIEA student game Long Arm Of the Law won second place Thursday in the Best Visual Quality and Best Gameplay categories at the 2019 Intel University Games Showcase in San Francisco. It is the third straight year that a game from UCF’s Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy has placed in two different categories.
OVERVIEW Daily steps counted – check. Glucose levels – check. Personal trainer follow-up – check. Stress-busting tips – check. From shopping to hailing a ride, with the click of a button or a swipe of a screen, technology has revolutionized our everyday lives. But can it change the way we address the global issue of …
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Sometimes the unexpected is more exciting than finding exactly what you thought you’d find, and this is indeed the case for the science team involved in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sample mission.
Using nanotechnology, UCF researchers have developed the first rapid detector for dopamine, a chemical that is believed to play a role in various diseases such as Parkinson’s, depression and some cancers.
OVERVIEW The impact of climate change is being felt from polar regions to tropical coasts. Ice caps and glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising and storms are becoming more frequent and severe. All are impacting existing infrastructure – and the way new transport networks and buildings are designed. Large-scale infrastructure projects – such as …
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Drones have evolved over the years from novelty to a sophisticated tool deployed in the wake of natural disasters. Now researchers have unlocked its use as a time machine.
Assistant Professor Megan Nickels, creator of UCF PedsAcademy, was named Thursday as the spring 2019 Marchioli Collective Impact Award winner.
OVERVIEW With projected global spending power of $18 trillion, women are an increasingly powerful force in today’s economy. And in the U.S., female spending power is estimated to be up to $15 trillion. Women’s growing participation in the workforce has also boosted the world’s economy. Some studies have found that if women enter – and …
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