RNL presented at the 2013 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, TX, which offers the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies.
On Wednesday, March 6, Dr. Humphreys presented at “Drones.edu: Hands on the Future in the Classroom.”
On Friday, March 8, Dr. Humphreys presented “Extreme GPS: Limits of Security & Precision”
To listen to the audio click here.
To download the presentation click here.
“Todd Humphreys and his students at the University of Texas in Austin are tired of waiting for augmented reality that meets the promise of the technology we’ve been hearing about and seeing in science fiction for years now. So they set out to build it themselves, and presented a very rough prototype for the first time at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) in Austin on Friday.”
Continue reading the gizmag article.
Austin, TX—Zak Kassas received the Research Excellence Award, which is awarded by the Graduate Engineering Council at the Graduate and Industry Networking (GAIN) Event. This award is granted to the best 10 graduate engineering research presentations out of 75 presentations at the GAIN Event as judged by representatives from the industry and faculty. GAIN is a broad Networking opportunity and an academically rigorous competition that allows The Cockrell School of Engineering to showcase its best and brightest graduate students.
Zak’s research focuses on devising novel techniques for opportunistic and collaborative navigation.
“Many say it’s only a matter of time before unmanned aircraft, otherwise known as drones, are used routinely for such tasks as traffic monitoring, battling forest fires and looking for lost children. The government already uses surveillance drones to monitor our border with Mexico. Some police departments and a few universities have permits to use them as well. The Federal Aviation Administration has been charged with coming up with a plan for widespread commercial use by 2015, but many say safety and privacy issues need to be addressed. Join us for a debate over the rules for domestic drones.
Listen to the audio clip that features an interview with Dr. Humphreys.
“State lawmakers may decide to ban drone surveillance of private property in Texas. A University of Texas professor fears that bill could hurt the research being done on those eyes in the sky. The university has an $80,000 drone that has been used by engineering professor Todd Humphreys to prove that the security of drones can be compromised.
“We showed that you can hack into a GPS system of one of these drones and like a tractor beam you can bring it down out of the air.” But, using that technology could be prevented in the future.
State Representative Lance Gooden (R, District 4) has introduced a bill called ‘The Texas Privacy Act’ that would ban drone surveillance of private property by everyone from aviation hobbyists to law enforcement.”
Continue reading the myFOXaustin article that features a video interview with Dr. Humphreys.
A drone, no bigger than a toy airplane, hovered north of the Texas Capitol, floating over the heads of lawmakers who were momentarily distracted from their morning meetings. Several of them gathered beneath it, faces tilted skyward, marveling over a pair of goggles that allowed them to watch live video of the craft’s panoramic bird’s-eye view.
But when the conversation turned to the reason for the demonstration, the tone shifted. Representative Lance Gooden, Republican of Terrell, said he was sponsoring legislation to prevent this futuristic technology — increasingly used by everyone from aviation hobbyists to law enforcement authorities — from capturing “indiscriminate surveillance.”
Continue reading the New York Times article, which features an interveiw with Dr. Humphreys.
Los Angeles, CA—Dr. Humphreys visited the GPS Directorate at the Los Angeles Air Force Base to brief them on the state of the art in secure GPS PNT. You can view his presentation here.
Austin, TX—Dr. Humphreys gave a GPS World webinar on the future directions of GPS research. You can view his presentation here.
Houston, TX—On October 25, 2012 at 10:00 am Assistant Professor Todd Humphreys will appear as a witness before Congress during a field forum to discuss the appropriate domestic use of drones. The forum will be hosted by U.S. Congressman Ted Poe and has been sanctioned by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. It will be held at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Continue reading the press release.
Watch the recorded testimony (starts at 31:55).
Read Dr. Humphreys’s written testimony here.
The 10th annual Texas Wireless Summit continues the tradition of providing a forum for industry leaders to discuss emerging technologies and business models that will shape the industry over the upcoming two to three years. Co-hosted by the Austin Technology Incubator and The University of Texas at Austin’s Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG), The Summit has direct access to cutting edge research and innovations from industry leaders, investors and startups. The Texas Wireless Summit is a keynote and panel driven discussion that enables the speakers and audience to engage to drive the conversation forward.
The location keynote address was given by Kanwar Chadha CEO and founder of Inovi and founder of SiRF.
On the location panel were Kanwar Chadha, Bernard Briggs (CTO of T3), and Alexander (Sasha) Mitelman (Navigation Consultant).