Hardware security made news in the worst way possible last month with the announcement that two CPU bugs, nicknamed Spectre and Meltdown, leave virtually every modern computer, smartphone, tablet and PC vulnerable to malicious attack. FICS members are actively working on initiatives related to Spectre and Meltown, showing their global expertise in the field.
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Future of Cybersecurity Depends on Collaboration Between Industry, Academia, and Government
The nation’s top cybersecurity experts convened at the University of Florida to discuss the latest developments in network, software and hardware security. The core message? Collaboration is key.
The push to share new ideas, emerging solutions – and even, potential threats – with the cybersecurity community echoed throughout the two-day conference, hosted by the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research (FICS Research) at UF.
UF to House the First NSF Center on Deep Learning
After over two years of development, across academic institutions and industry partners, the NSF Center for Big Learning (CBL) has been officially awarded, creating the first NSF center on deep learning.
Roozbeh Tabrizian Receives $500K NSF CAREER Award
Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian has received an NSF CAREER Award for his project, “Active Nano-Acoustic Waveguide Matrix to Tackle Signal Processing Limits: Enabling Wideband and Nonreciprocal Integrated Communication Beyond the UHF.”
ECE Florida Team Places in Top 10 at DARPA Grand Challenge, Receives $750K
The ECE Florida team, comprised of Dr. John Shea and Dr. Tan Wong and their students, placed in the top ten and received a check for $750,000 for their efforts.
Karim Oweiss Receives $4.2 M from DARPA
Will study the mechanisms by which cranial nerve stimulation can affect brain activity.
Sarasota High School Students Visit FICS & MIL
Students from Booker High School in Sarasota spent the day visiting two high-powered labs at the University of Florida on Wednesday, Oct. 11. Students visited the SCAN Lab at FICS Research and the Machine Intelligence Lab.
Award-winning Paper From FICS Research Casts Doubt on ECG As Secure Biometric
“On the Vulnerability of ECG Verification to Online Presentation Attacks,” has won best student paper at the recent IJCB 2017 conference in Denver.
NaviGator Team Wins 1st Place at RobotX AMS International Challenge
Twenty students under the direction of Dr. Eric Schwartz took first place in the international Maritime RobotX Challenge (link is external) in Oahu, Hawaii in December.
Nelms Institute for the Connected World
The University of Florida has announced a new resource for the design, development and testing of state-of-the-art IoT systems: The Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World.