UCF Alumna Lands Role In Hamilton
• Just a few years after graduating from college, UCF alumna Abby Jaros is performing in Hamilton at the Doctor Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
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• Just a few years after graduating from college, UCF alumna Abby Jaros is performing in Hamilton at the Doctor Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
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• The Strategic Communication doctorate will emphasize combating misinformation during a crisis.
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• Amazon’s facial recognition technology isn’t the only tool that Orlando is considering in its efforts to monitor the public using street cameras – the University of Central Florida has also developed a mass surveillance system for the city. UCF researchers have installed an artificial intelligence-powered software that can recognize facial characteristics and body movements to detect assaults, robberies and even explosions in real time. Orlando was the subject of blistering criticism last year after reports revealed that the police department was piloting Amazon’s Rekognition, a facial-recognition technology that plugs into security cameras to identify and track people of interest as they walk down the street. But by early 2016, students and professors from UCF’s Center for Research in Computer Vision …
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• Investigators are searching for suspects involved in the spray-painting of swastikas near the University of Central Florida.
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• A team of researchers from the University of Central Florida is holding its own in a national competition aimed at making driving safer, and the university is the only one going up against industry giants like Ford and Uber.
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• It was a bittersweet week for the University of Central Florida football team. The Knights climbed to number 7 in the Associated Press and Coaches Polls, the highest ranking for the team this season. But during Friday’s game against the University of South Florida, quarterback McKenzie Milton went down on the field after a leg injury.
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• Bernie Sanders is urging students to vote in the midterm election. The Vermont senator appeared at a campaign rally for fellow Democrat Andrew Gillum at the University of Central Florida Wednesday.
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