CISE
The Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering is concerned with the theory, design, development and application of computer systems and information processing techniques. The mission of the CISE Department is to educate undergraduate and graduate majors as well as the broader campus community in the fundamental concepts of the computing discipline, to create and disseminate computing knowledge and technology, and to use our expertise in computing to help society solve problems.
Departmental News
CISE Professor wins Florida Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Award
Professor Fishwick was one of four University of Florida faculty to win the 2008 Florida Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Award based on exceptional achievements in teaching and research. Dr. Fishwick is Professor and Director of the Digital Arts and Sciences Programs in CISE, and is an active international researcher in dynamic modeling, simulation, and aesthetic computing. Founded in 1923, Florida Blue Key is the most prestigious leadership honorary in the state of Florida. Florida Blue Key sponsors the nation's largest Homecoming celebration and student run pep rally, Gator Growl. (Full Story Here)
CISE PHD Student receives CSB Best Paper Award
UF CISE PhD student Ferhat Ay, his supervisor Assistant Professor Tamer Kahveci and their collaborator Assistant Professor Valerie de-Crecy Lagard (UF - Dept of Microbiology and Cell Science) received the Best Paper Award for their research paper titled "Consistent Alignment of Metabolic Pathways without Abstraction" at the International Conference of Computational Systems Biology (CSB) 2008. The CSB Conference was held in Stanford University (San Francisco), CA on August 26th - 29th, 2008. CSB is one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of Bioinformatics.(Full Story Here)
Retired CISE Professor Dr Ralph Gordon Selfridge Passes Away
Retired CISE professor Dr Ralph Gordon Selfridge passed away Sunday August 31, 2008, at the age of eighty-one. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Betty Rushton, brother Oliver Selfridge, sister Jennifer Macleod, ten step children, seventeen grandchildren, and three great-grand children.
He was born in London, England in 1927 and sailed from Liverpool the day the first bombs hit London in 1939. He earned his BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his Master's degree from Cornell University , and his Doctorate degree in mathematics from the University of Oregon.(Full Story Here)
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