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We live in a world where massive amounts of data are currently available to us. In 2013, the size of the digital universe was estimated to be near 5 zettabytes (1 zettabyte = 1 million terabytes) and is expected to quadruple by 2020. Like the physical world, the information in it is diverse – created […]

Congratulations to Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., in his recent ACM award as a distinguished scientist. Mishra is an associate professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida (UF) where he leads the CISE Embedded Systems Lab. His research interests include design automation of embedded systems, energy-aware computing, reconfigurable architectures, […]

Shaundra B. Daily, Ph.D., has recently participated in the 23rd World Computer Congress (WCC 2015) in Korea. Daily is an associate professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. Previously she was an associate professor and Interim Co-Chair in the School of Computing at Clemson University directing […]

Ahmed Helmy, Ph.D., and his former Ph.D. student (Dr. Gautam Thakur, UF graduate, now at Oakridge National Labs) received the InternetTC Best Paper 2013 award from the Internet Technical Committee (ITC), in coordination with IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). The announcement was made on Jun 21, 2015. The paper — “COBRA: A Framework for the Analysis […]

Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D., has received the IBM Faculty Award. This is an internationally competitive award.  This award is given to a faculty member with outstanding reputation for contributions in their field. The details of this award are available here. http://www.research.ibm.com/university/innovation/

Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and the new chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, has been selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to be among the second round of inventors honored by its Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Program. The purpose of the […]

Animation is the art of creating the illusion of life. How young do you have to be to tell a story with this medium? At the Stop Motion Animation camp, one of the Harn Museum’s summer camp offerings, Nicole Reno brings the art of animation to children as young as 7-12 years old. When she […]

Juan Gilbert wanted to be like the heroes in the movies he watched as a kid: the person everyone looked to for help and who would valiantly save the day. But these superheroes didn’t use their physical might to fight danger. The heroes in Gilbert’s favorite sci-fi movies wore lab coats. “I’ve always wanted to […]

Congratulations to Sartaj Sahni and Sanjay Ranka on being founding members of the IEEE Communications Society’s Technical Subcommittee on Big Data (TSCBD). Read more …

Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and current associate chair for research, has been named chair of the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering. The appointment is effective immediately. Gilbert has been awarded over $25 million in external research funding, mentored 70 graduate students and received […]