Month: April 2017

CISE Research Team Hosts Second Annual Brain-Drone Race
April 30, 2017Some engineers are thinking about what humans can do with their brains. A team of students at the University of Florida, with the help of Juan Gilbert, Ph.D., the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), are bringing those ideas to life […]
Read more »Two Faculty Awarded $1.2 Million DARPA Grant
April 28, 2017Jorg Peters, a professor in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and Meera Sitharam, an associate professor in CISE, received a $1.2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to revolutionize geometric design with material micro- and nano-structure. Peters is interested in representing, analyzing and computing with geometry. He […]
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App Aims to Take Risk Out of Traffic Stops
April 25, 2017Many police officers will tell you the riskiest parts of their job are responding to domestic violence calls and making traffic stops. A group of University of Florida students has come up with a way to make the latter a little less dangerous – for everyone. The group, all students in UF’s Herbert Wertheim College […]
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CISE Ph.D. Student Inducted into AEL Honor Society
April 21, 2017Joseph Isaac, a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has been inducted into Alpha Epsilon Lambda (AEL), a national honor society of graduate and professional students. Isaac is studying human-centered computing under the advisement of Christina Gardner-McCune. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from […]
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