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VR Could be a Gamechanger in Police-Civilian Crisis Encounters
November 20, 2024
Traditional police training offers limited opportunities for officers to practice handling complex civilian interactions, especially with individuals experiencing mental health crises. New research by ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app...
Hyman Science Lecture Series at ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app Hosts Journalist Carl Zimmer
November 13, 2024
The Nat and Dorothy Hyman Science Lecture Series, as part of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at ¼ø»ÆÊ¦app, will host science journalist Carl Zimmer on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 5:30 p.m., in the Barry...
¼ø»ÆÊ¦app Engineers Win NSF Grant for Unique School of AI Bio-Robotic Fish
November 12, 2024
Exploring and understanding sensitive ocean and coastal environments such as sea grass, mangrove forests, kelp forests, coral reefs, and the arctic ocean requires in situ observations that are currently difficult or nearly...
November 08, 2024
¼ø»ÆÊ¦app's School of Architecture is uniquely designed from its curriculum to its facilities. Unlike most other schools of this nature, it is one step ahead successfully integrating artificial intelligence...
Dangers of the Metaverse and VR for U.S. Youth Revealed in New Study
October 22, 2024
The metaverse, a space where the lines between physical and digital realities blur, is rising among younger populations. As of March, 33% of teens own a virtual reality (VR) device and 13% use it weekly. With the metaverse...
¼ø»ÆÊ¦app Awarded $10M to Train People with Disabilities for High Tech Jobs
October 03, 2024
¼ø»ÆÊ¦app’s College of Education and the College of Engineering and Computer Science have received a $9,961,460 grant from the United States Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and...
Feet First: AI Reveals How Infants Connect with Their World
October 01, 2024
Recent advances in computing and artificial intelligence, along with insights into infant learning, suggest that machine and deep learning techniques can help us study how infants transition from random exploratory movements...
¼ø»ÆÊ¦app Tech Runway® Announces 14th Venture Class
September 30, 2024
¼ø»ÆÊ¦app Tech Runway® recently accepted 17 companies to participate in the 14th cohort of its Venture Program. The Venture Program provides the most promising startups and talented entrepreneurs in South Florida with resources...
¼ø»ÆÊ¦app Survey: Port Everglades Firms Signal Optimistic Economic Growth
September 16, 2024
The PEESI surveys members of the Port Everglades Association for their expected business outlook for the next three and 12 months, hiring plans, use of artificial intelligence, as well as the Blue Economy to assess economic...
¼ø»ÆÊ¦app Engineering Professor Achieves Highly Cited Google Scholar Ranking
September 05, 2024
¼ø»ÆÊ¦app’s Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Ph.D., the Motorola Endowed Chair Professor and director of the Data Mining and Machine Learning Lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science , recently achieved...