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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 […]

Three GEM Fellows from the University of Florida (UF) did a fantastic job preparing for and briefing Intel CEO Brian Krzanich and Intel Senior Vice President of Human Resources Richard Taylor. They also prepared a live demonstration of UF Brain-Computer Interface group research on June 24, and there are significant opportunities for next steps. Congratulations […]

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 […]

Elham Sakhaee, Ph.D. student, and Alireza Entezari, an associate professor at the CISE, won the best paper award, sponsored by the Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL) for their paper entitled “Learning Splines for Sparse Tomographic Reconstruction” that was presented at the 10th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC’14). Tomography is a fundamental computational approach to a wide […]

Ahmed Helmy, Ph.D., was selected by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as an inductee honored with the designation of “Distinguished Scientist”. Dr. Helmy’s main contributions include research in the fields of mobile networks design, mobility modeling, wireless measurements, network simulation and multicast routing. The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes the Top 10 percent of […]

A new study by Lexis Nexis, a digital risk management company, says mobile purchase fraud is on the rise. The study reports that the money stolen through mobile transactions went up 70 percent last year when compared to 2013. Concerns over mobile transactions have made it to congress and President Barack Obama has proposed a […]

Dr. Gerhard X. Ritter, CISE Professor Emeritus and former department chair, was an plenary keynote speaker at the 19th Iboamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2014) in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. This annual conference was held November 2-5, 2014. The title of his talk was Lattice-Based Dendritic Computing: A Biomimetic Approach to Artificial Neural Networks. In […]