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Two CS Students Win Top Poster Awards at Commonwealth Computational Summit
As a part of the prize, Vijay Shah and Atieh Khamesi will be awarded a travel grant to attend the 2018 National Supercomputing Conference (SC'18) in Dallas, Texas.
UK Receives $1.7 Million NSF Grant to Advance Virtual Laboratory Infrastructure
The project will be jointly led by researchers at the University of Kentucky and the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Cui Awarded Two Grants Totaling over $650,000
Funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health will further Cui's work in debugging large ontologies and customizing data collection systems.
Seales Receives UK Alumni Professorship Award
Created over 30 years ago, the award recognized faculty for their “influential scholarly contributions, sustained excellence in teaching, and outstanding career or public service.”
Silvestri Publishes Five Papers in Top Journals
The journals include IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Sensor Networks and IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
Computer Science Students Develop App to Benefit Homeless Outreach
A team of UK students is using its knowledge of computer science to help some of the most vulnerable members of the largest city in the United States.
Seales Helps Nashville Family Solve 40-Year-Old Mystery
Brent Seales' digital restoration technology has led to breakthroughs in unwrapping charred ancient scrolls. But recently, he used it to help a Nashville, Tennessee family answer a longstanding question.
UK Engineering, Industry Partner Faradine Systems, Examine International Space Station Hardware
An LED light including its internal controller that spent approximately nine years aboard the International Space Station is being studied for negative effects caused by space’s radiation levels.
Engineering Faculty Explore UK’s Strengths in the Area of Autonomous Systems
Twenty University of Kentucky College of Engineering faculty members representing five departments, as well as staff from the Kentucky Transportation Center, participated in a research retreat focused on autonomous systems.
Using Science Fiction to Teach Computer Ethics
Judy Goldsmith, professor in the Department of Computer Science, regularly teaches CS585: “Science Fiction and Computer Ethics. She recently co-authored an article about the rationale behind the course for Communications of the ACM and was featured in a short video.