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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 […]

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 […]