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To get kids interested in complicated subjects like computer science, sometimes all they need is a taste of the real thing. That’s the thinking behind Hour of Code, a program designed to expose students to computer science early and encourage schools to offer more computer science classes. The second annual iteration of the program, accessible […]

When you watch funny Youtube videos, how does your heart rate vary? When you build Legos, where do you get stuck? When you search for camouflaged animals, what are your gaze patterns like? Questions such as these were transformed into term projects in Eakta Jain’s new class called “Human-Centered Computer Graphics”. The course covered topics […]

Sumi Helal, Ph.D., a professor at CISE, has been named 2015 IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for his contributions to Mobile and Pervasive Computing Systems. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of […]

A University of Florida researcher’s desire to provide citizens with disabilities the same opportunity to vote as everyone else could serve as the catalyst for revolutionizing voter access nationwide. Juan Gilbert’s Prime III, an electronic voting machine a decade in the making, has debuted in primary elections in several states. Officials in New Hampshire were […]

A marketing document for Intel distributed recently showcases the technical momentum taking place at the University of Florida (UF). The UF Department Computer & Information Science & Engineering and the Intel Software Academic Program are spearheading curriculum on Natural User Interaction (NUI). This emergent technology refines and expands how the human senses exchange with computers. […]

SurfLab, CISE’s computer graphics research group, received the best paper award (1st prize) of the 2014 Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling (formerly ACM Solid Modelling) in Hong Kong for the paper entitled “Correct resolution rendering of trimmed spline surfaces”. SurfLab has been at the cutting edge of geometric and graphics research for the last […]

Ahmed Helmy, Ph.D., CISE professor, and his son, Amir Helmy (13 yrs), Eastside High School, developed two award-winning mobile apps for healthcare called Seizario and HeartEra. Seizario detects epileptic seizures and falls and automatically alerts emergency contacts. Heartera captures heart movement patterns and beats per minute. Heartera took first place in the Mobile App Competition […]

Professor Juan Gilbert’s Prime III voting system (www.PrimeVotingSystem.com) will be used as a pilot on Sept. 9 in Nashua, N.H. After a recent meeting with New Hampshire’s Secretary of State, Dr. Gilbert’s technology will be implemented statewide in November. Dr. Gilbert and his research team were awarded a $4.5 million grant from the U.S. Election […]

Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D.,professor, and Daisy Zhe Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor, have been named affiliate faculty members of the College of Medicine’s Institute for Child Health Policy. The institute focuses on disparities in health and health care outcomes for minority and underserved children and develops strategies and interventions to address these issues. Ranka and Wang were […]

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 […]