Press

Below are some press coverage, personal quotes or media mention instances. Some projects such as Global Game Jam or Digital Democracy have hundreds of media mentions internationally. They are not represented here, for the most part. Please let me know if there's something specific you are looking for.

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Cal Poly Magazine 7 Feb, 2024	Who Were the African Californios? Researchers Uncover California's Untold Black History When most people think of early California history, they might remember Spanish conquistadors, Indigenous tribes, missions or white American prospectors — but probably nothing about Black people. An interdisciplinary group of Cal Poly researchers is working to change that perception by unearthing the largely untold history of settlers of African descent in early California. \| [Cal Poly Magazine]
Paso Robles Daily News 12 Jun, 2023	Cal Poly funds 17 faculty research projects through grant program Supported by funds from the California State University (CSU) Chancellor’s Office and the Cal Poly Provost’s Office, the RSCA grant program is designed to enable faculty to contribute new knowledge through robust programs of scholarship focused on strengthening California socially, culturally, and economically. \| [article]
Connection 13 Sep, 2021	Distinguished Scholar: Foaad Khosmood It might seem surprising that the co-founder of the world’s largest game-developing event didn’t have access to a computer growing up. \| [article]
CSSE Newsletter 12 Oct, 2020	Ask NIMBUS: AI Project Will Answer All You Cal Poly Project Article about student project NIMBUS intelligent assistant project. \| [Oct. 2020 issue]
Connection 19 Aug, 2020	Two CENG Professors Awarded Distinguished Scholarship Awards Scott Hazelwood, who has conducted internationally recognized research in skeletal tissue mechanics, and Foaad Khosmood, whose work has advanced gaming and a greater awareness of government activity, have received Distinguished Scholarship Awards for 2019-2020. \| [CENG Connection]
New Times SLO 5 Mar, 2020	Cal Poly researchers believe AI could help improve news coverage of state government What if artificial intelligence could report the news, or at least help journalists report the news? \| [New Times SLO]
Cal Poly News 12 Feb, 2020	Cal Poly and the University of Miami Team Up to Help Newspapers — Using AI A $200,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is helping the Cal Poly Institute for Advanced Technology and Public Policy develop an artificial intelligence system that will strengthen news coverage of state and local governments. \| [link]
New Era Live 20 Jan, 2020	Game developers on the riseWINDHOEK – A young local game developer has urged his fellow country mates to get into gaming to cease and control the market because it’s the industry that makes the most money in the world and said most of the fields in the country are heavily populated. “Most of the fields in Namibia are overpopulated which makes it difficult for people to get jobs which is also the reason why there is a high
Connection 25 Sep, 2019	Color Coded Attends ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Ten students from across the college, including CSC, CPE, SE, EE, LAES and AERO, attended the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing September 18-21 in San Diego. \| [CENG]
Santa Maria Times 26 Feb, 2019	Hancock College student group to host debate on artificial intelligence A charity debate organized by a Hancock College student group will shine some light on the misunderstood field of artificial intelligence, all while raising funds for youth-oriented technology and engineering programs. \| [article]
Mustang News 18 Nov, 2018	Cal Poly’s Color Coded focuses on diversity in engineering...Khosmood, along with co-founders Ibssa and Blue, recently visited Arellanes Junior High School in Santa Maria to speak to the younger students about pursuing a career in computer science and engineering. This visit is the first of many that the club plans to take to spread their message of encouraging diversity in the field. \| [article]
Pest Control Technology 6 Mar, 2018	Get Smart: IoT for Your Business TRIGGERING TECHNOLOGY. Defining IoT can get complicated — connecting, networking, hardware, software, infrastructure, real-time…what does all this mean? Foaad Khosmood, Ph.D., Forbes associate professor of Computer Engineering at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif., puts it simply: “IoT is connecting devices to the internet. \| [PCTOnline.com]
Mustang News 14 Nov, 2017	Hackerman: Former Cal Poly Student Avoids Jail Time For Cyber Crime Tiernan rented out his software to send spam messages and used the money he made to pay for college. None of the information taken from infected computers was personal; only computer IP addresses were used. This can still be damaging because the infected computer is linked as the source that is sending out spam to other computers. \| [mustangnews.net]
Mustang News 5 Jun, 2017	How High Tech Industry Salaries Affect Computer Science Department While Cal Poly mandates that students choose their major before coming to school to give them a head start, that system hasn’t benefited computer science senior Darryl Vo. In order to get classes in the computer science department, crashing was the only option. \| [mustangnews.net]
State Scoop 7 Feb, 2017	Digital Democracy video platform expands to New York State legislators in New York are likely to come under greater scrutiny with the expansion of Digital Democracy, a video transparency platform that helps citizens and advocacy groups track bills, hearings and political influencers. \| [statescoop.com]
Wired 7 Feb, 2017	A Heroic AI Will Let You Spy on Your Lawmakers' Every Word "It's a data dump," he says. But both Newsom, a Democrat, and Blakeslee, a Republican, worry that curation could threaten the platform's objectivity. It's harder to cry "fake news" about a video that's presented in full without commentary. The founders are also joining up with other organizations that have become instrumental to holding politicians accountable. \| [Wired.com]
Global Game Jam 30 Aug, 2016	The Global Game Jam Announces Academic Event, University Relations and Research Chair The International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events (ICGJ) is a peer reviewed academic conference occurring annually. It was founded in 2015 by Allan Fowler and Foaad Khosmood to provide an academic venue to exchange ideas and to elevate the status of game jam research. \| [globalgamejam.org]
AP / abc30 6 May, 2015	Gavin Newsom, Sam Blakeslee unveil video website for government meetings Foaad Khosmood, a Cal Poly computer science professor who is the senior research fellow on Digital Democracy, said he was excited to work on the project because it promotes innovation in government. \| [abc30.com]
SFGATE 6 May, 2015	New online tool will help public easily see lobbyist connections to bills Newsom, a Democrat, joined former Republican state Sen. \| [sfgate.com]
University News 6 May, 2015	Lt. Gov. Newsom and Former State Sen. Blakeslee Trail-blaze Digital Platform to Transform Government Transparency “No system like this was available before we built it here at Cal Poly,” said Foaad Khosmood, a computer science professor and IATPP senior research fellow for Digital Democracy. “These students truly exemplify Cal Poly’s Learn by Doing philosophy. \| [calpoly.edu]
Developer Zone 16 Mar, 2015	CalPoly Pre-GDC XDK Gamejam Story submitted by Intel's Brad Hill to Intel Developer Forum. \| [Archived version] CalPoly Pre-GDC XDK Gamejam_ _ Intel® Developer Zone.pdf
Mustang News 9 Jan, 2015	Institute Of Advanced Technology And Public Policy Receives $1.2 Million Grant To ‘Open Government’ Program Computer science assistant professor Foaad Khosmood is the institute’s senior research fellow. He oversees all hands-on work by students and faculty members working on Digital Democracy and is one of the program’s biggest proponents. \| [mustangnews.net]
SLO City News 8 Jan, 2015	Tools for Democracy Project Facing Deadline \| [Jan 2015 issue]
Engineering Advantage 15 May, 2013	Students Hover Over ‘Quad-copters’ Project With the use of unmanned drones moving well past science fiction to everyday reality, five Cal Poly Engineering students are bringing a Learn by Doing approach to the growing field of autonomous flying robots. \| [Spring 2013 issue]
Santa Cruz Sentinel 19 Jan, 2011	Game Jam tests creativity, speed By the next year, chatter about the innovative event had spread, and there was movement to host Game Jams all over the world. The Global Game Jam was born in January 2009, and UC Santa Cruz has hosted one stage of the event since that inaugural year. \| [santacruzsentinel.com]
New Times 1 Mar, 2010	Growing up gaming Foaad Khosmood graduated from Cal Poly in 1999 with a degree in computer engineering. He went on to earn a master’s degree and is now rounding out a PhD at University of California Santa Cruz. \| [Original Article at NewTimesSlo.com]
The Tribune, SLO 4 Jun, 2004	Poly Inquiry Set to Clear Voter Intimidation Claim Article by Jeff Ballinger, The Tribune San Luis Obispo, June 4, 2004.