Controlling Drones with Your Mind
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…
Empowerment Through Computing
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….
Congratulations Dr. Sahni and Dr. Ranka
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 …
Announcing New CISE Chair Juan Gilbert, Ph.D.
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…
MERL – Best Paper Award
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…
Helmy Selected as ACM Distinguished Scientist
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…
Mobile Purchase Fraud on the rise
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…
Plenary Talks by CISE Faculty
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….
CISE Optima Network Science Wins Best Paper Award
OptNetSci, UF’s Optima Network Science research group, won the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN) in Maui, Hawaii, December 2014, for…
Students Get Early Glimpse at the Joy of Computer Coding
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…