rnl-admin

Popular Mechanics: What If They Try to Hack Amazon’s Drones? December 2013

“Not everyone is thrilled with the rise of civilian drones in American skies. Last week, after Amazon hyped its plan to deliver packages in half an hour via UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), we wondered about the drone backlash happening in many part of the U.S. And while an angry few threatened to shoot down these

Popular Mechanics: What If They Try to Hack Amazon’s Drones? December 2013 Read More »

Daily Post: 5 of the Most Interesting Scientific Discoveries Coming Out of Texas in 2013

“In a stunning display of engineering, students in the UT Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics hacked a superyacht’s GPS system in the Mediterranean Sea. They veered the $80 million vessel off course, proving that such a feat could be performed using cutting-edge technology. In fact, the students not only sent false GPS signals to the yacht’s

Daily Post: 5 of the Most Interesting Scientific Discoveries Coming Out of Texas in 2013 Read More »

NYT: Texas Law Gets Tough on Public, Private Drone Use, September 2013

“A hobbyist using a remote-control airplane mounted with a digital camera just happened to capture images last year of a Dallas creek running red with pig’s blood. It led to a nearby meatpacking plant being fined for illegal dumping and two of its leaders being indicted on water pollution charges.” Continue reading the New York Times

NYT: Texas Law Gets Tough on Public, Private Drone Use, September 2013 Read More »

NPR TED Radio Hour: Will GPS Change Our Standards for Privacy?, September 2013

“Visions of the future don’t just have to come from science fiction. There’s very real technology today giving us clues about how our future lives might be transformed. So what might our future look like? And what does it take for an idea about the future to become a reality? In this hour, TED speakers

NPR TED Radio Hour: Will GPS Change Our Standards for Privacy?, September 2013 Read More »

Zak Kassas Wins Best Paper Presentation Award, August 2013

Austin, TX—Zak Kassas won the best paper presentation award in the Estimation Session of the AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) conference, 2012 for his paper entitled “Observability Analysis of Opportunistic Navigation with Pseudorange Measurements“. The awards were announced during the 2013 GNC conference. Zak’s research focuses on devising novel techniques for opportunistic and collaborative navigation.

Zak Kassas Wins Best Paper Presentation Award, August 2013 Read More »

MIT Technology Review: “Spoofers” Use Fake GPS Signals to Knock a Yacht Off Course, August 2013

“University of Texas researchers recently tricked the navigation system of an $80 million yacht and sent the ship off course in an experiment that showed how any device with civilian GPS technology is vulnerable to a practice called spoofing. Led by GPS expert Todd Humphreys, the researchers used a handheld device they built for about

MIT Technology Review: “Spoofers” Use Fake GPS Signals to Knock a Yacht Off Course, August 2013 Read More »