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Dr. Jih-Kwon Peir’s paper entitled “Bloom Filtering Cache Misses for Accurate Data Speculation and Prefetching” co-authored with S. Lai, S. Lu, J. Stark, and K. Lai has been included in the “25 years of International Conference on Supercomputing”. The selection committee reviewed the top 100 most-cited papers out of 1800 papers published in ICS proceedings […]

Junjie Li’s paper wins the best paper award at the 6th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB) in Las Vegas. “Optimal Alignment of Three Sequences on a GPU” is co-authored by CISE faculty Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D., and Sartaj Sahni, Ph.D. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) were developed originally to meet the computational needs of algorithms […]

The CISE department’s student-run organization WiCSE (Women in Computer Science and Engineering) led an outreach day on March 25 for middle school girls. The girls were attending a week-long spring break camp hosted by the UF WISE group, sponsored by the Florida Museum of Natural History, spending one day in each of 5 science and […]

A team consisting of students affiliated with the UF CISE Data Science Research Center and Warrington College of Business Administration finished in second place in the 7-hour Hoggetowne Hack 2014, Gainesville (an Open Data movement hackathon). Their concept was “Safe City,” an Android app that promotes safety by helping identify crime-prone areas of the city. […]

The Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida is excited to announce the 13th Biannual Career Development Workshop. The goal of this event is to allow all computer science/computer engineering students at UF, regardless of their particular major or College, to interact with top industry representatives from across the field […]

Sartaj Sahni was recently named the Editor-in-Chief of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) journal Computing Surveys. The ACM is the premier professional association for computer science. Computing Surveys has the highest impact of all the ACM journals. The journal publishes surveys, tutorials, and special reports on all areas of computing research.

In April 2013, the UF Graduate Teaching Assistant Award was given to Sencer Nuri Yeralan, Computer and Information Science and Engineering. Only about 20 graduate students are given this award at UF each year. Awards to engineering students are very rare: Nuri is the third engineering student to win this award since it was established […]

The Association of Graduate Students in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (ASCIE) is hosting Computer Science Day in conjunction with the annual Artificial Intelligence in Computer Games Day at the University of Florida. Computer Science Day is intended to promote awareness of the importance and impact of Computer Science and to showcase just how […]

Tim Davis, a professor in CISE, was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) on March 29. Tim is one of only two SIAM Fellows in the state of Florida. The SIAM Fellows program was initiated in 2009 with 194 members, and about 34 have been elected each year […]

Harris Corporation recently gave $3 million to create an endowed research fund called the Research Excellence Fund in Computer Science and Engineering. In recognition of this gift, the department has named space on the 3rd floor, now known as the Harris Gateway to Learning and Innovation. “The Harris gift is an example of how leadership, […]