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September 19, 2014 by saveufcise 0 Comments

Two Computer Information Science Engineering Faculty Members Join the Institute for Child Health Policy to Promote Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Research06/16/2014

Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D., professor, and Daisy Zhe Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor, have been named affiliate faculty members of the College of Medicines 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.Paper included in the 25 years of International Conference on Supercomputing04/14/2014

Dr. Jih-Kwon Peirs 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 between 1987 and 2011 and selected 35 papers to be included.CISE PhD student wins best paper award at conference04/07/2014

Junjie Lis 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 Dr. Sanjay Ranka and Dr. Sartaj Sahni.Outreach day gives middle school girls a look into computer science04/02/2014

The CISE departments student-run organization WiCSE (Women in Computer Science and Engineering) led an outreach day on March 25, 2014, 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 engineering departments around campus.InfoTech Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar Announcement03/26/2014

Friday, March 28th 2014 from 4:00PM to 5:00PM in CSE Building room 404 Dr. Srikant will be presenting on Resource Allocation and Networking in Clouds and Data Centers.
For the full announcement flyer, please click here.Creating Visual Art from Music03/18/2014

Last November, sparse matrices came together with electronic music to appear on billboards around London for the LEAF 2013 Electronic Music Festival.InfoTech Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar Announcement03/18/2014

Dr. Vipin Kumar will be presenting: Understanding Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for Data Driven Research Friday, March 21, 2014 from 4:00PM to 5:00PM in CSE Building room 404.Faculty Openings in Personalized Learning03/05/2014

The Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is searching to fill one senior position at the level of associate or full professor in the area of personalized learning under UFs Rising to National Preeminence program.Hoggetowne Hack02/24/2014

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.President Obama calls on every American to learn to code12/09/2013

President Barack Obama asks every American to give it a shot to learn to code, kicking off the Hour of Code campaign for Computer Science Education Week 2013. http://code.orgSeminar Announcement: Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj on Automated Prediction of Molecular Assemblies10/14/2013

Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj will be delivering the first lecture in the Barr Systems distinguished lecture series for 2013-14. The seminar will be held on Tuesday, October 15th from 4-5PM in CSE E121.

Automated Prediction of Molecular Assemblies

Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj, University of Texas, AustinDistinguished Professor Sartaj Sahni earns highly prestigious editorship09/03/2013

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.Congratulations to Nuri Yeralan08/16/2013

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 in 2003.CISE Seminar Announced06/14/2013

All graduate students working in hyperspectral image analysis are expected to attend.

Also, if you are a PhD student, this seminar will count towards your PhD requirements.

A PDF of the seminar announcement can be viewed here.Computer Science Day04/17/2013

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 much fun it is! The event will be on Monday, April 22nd 2013 from 12:00PM to 5:00PM at the CSE Building next to Turlington Plaza and Marston Science Library.Tim Davis elected as Fellow of SIAM04/11/2013

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 since then.

Tim Davis citation reads:
For contributions to sparse matrix algorithms and software, including the University of Florida Sparse Matrix Collection.Trendy Entertainment to sponsor Mobile Computing Killer App Competition04/03/2013

Trendy Entertainment a Gainesville based mobile
gaming company will sponsor UFs Mobile Computing Killer App Competition
in connection with the Mobile Platforms class taught by Professor Sumi
Helal. Info In Search of Administrative Transparency, Rationale and Accountability (and a recommended budget plan for UFEngineering)

June 1, 2012 by saveufcise 0 Comments

Questioning  UF Administrations Allocation of  Funds

During the May 29, 2012 Open Faculty Forum about Budget Cut called by the central administration, President Machen and Provost Glover were asked, among others,  several questions from this list,    based on an independent report on UFs  reserves,  including those held by the University proper and  those held by the Universitys various discrete component units including Shands;  including approximately half a billion dollars  categorized as restricted expendable; and over 100 million dollars held by the University proper, and characterized as unrestricted net assets.   Candid answers were not forthcoming.

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Call for Action, Info bernie machen, cammy abernathy, joe glover United Faculty of Florida Questions UFs Management of Reserves, May2012

June 1, 2012 by saveufcise 0 Comments

Dear Colleague,

In a message to you a couple of weeks ago I listed a number of questions to which I suggested members of the university community – faculty, staff, students – deserved an answer.

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Uncategorized Current CISE Status

May 31, 2012 by saveufcise 0 Comments

-[ Updated June 7, 2012 ]-

The current Acting Chair, Gerhard Ritter, is due to step down on June 30. On Wednesday June 6, 2012,  Provost Joe Glover and Dean Cammy Abernathy announced that Dr. Paul Gader will be CISEs new Interim Chair. A process for selecting a permanent chairman for CISE was also discussed. See previous posts on the topic below.

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Call for Action, Info Latest Dean Fact

May 31, 2012 by saveufcise 0 Comments

May 6 Dean Fact: A Culture of Fear

They can and will do anything to your professional life.  No matter how irrational their decisions, watch out what you say: they dont like it if you question their decisions, and they have ways of using the tiniest pretext to professionally harass you.  If your department speaks out collectively, then they will retaliate and harass your department.  Statements such as this have become increasingly common among College of Engineering faculty as the tenure of the current Dean progresses. In the current limbo when the departments in the College prepare their 2.7% across the board cut (announced as the 3rd and hopefully final of Dean Abernathys proposals for the 2012 budget cut), this atmosphere of fear of retribution and retaliation is palpable. What does this say about academic freedom within the College of Engineering?

The following emails were sunshined as part of a public records request.

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Info Budget Cut aCheck!

May 31, 2012 by saveufcise 0 Comments

Any budget cut plan at the University of Florida is necessitated by President Bernie Machens interpretation of this $38 million one-time cut as a permanent reduction in state support. However, on April 17, the Board of Governors clarified their expectations of the states universities by remarking,

While this budget represents less direct funding for the universities, we appreciate the stated commitment of legislative leadership that the $300 million reduction will be restored to the baseline next year. Our Universities will continue to tap their reserves year-round in order to save course offerings, retain faculty and account for enrollment growth, among other critical demands.

The University of Floridas annual report as well as an independent audit reveal the financial health of the university. Conservatively, the University of Florida is sitting on a mountain of cash classified in many different yet equally accessible ways. It doesnt matter whether we discuss the $1.015 billion total, the $111 million in unrestricted net assets, or the $540 million classified as restricted expendable. President Machen and Provost Joe Glover have decided to make permanent cuts to the universitys structure when cutting a check would suffice.

Several faculty, students, and staff have joined a university-wide coalition outraged at the disconnect between state lawmakers and university administrators. The SaveUF! Spend the Reserves campaign is actively protesting this unnecessary austerity.

On May 14, President Machen admited that spending the reserves may be a viable delay strategy but is an ill-advised longterm strategy. We disagree. We disagree because the Board of Governors as well as state lawmakers have repeatedly affirmed that the budget shortfall will be returned to baseline next year.

On May 23, the SaveUF! Spend the Reserves coalition led a teach-in where its members gave short speeches to the public, educating them about the budget cuts and the administrations strategy. WUFT-FM interviewed members of the coalition as well as an official university spokesperson, Janine Sikes. The Gainesville Sun ran a webpoll and discovered that 69.7% of those polled are in favor of spending reserves to meet the budget shortfall, while only 21.4% favor making permanent cuts (8.9% argue that the university should raise funds through benefactors and other means).

On June 7-8, UFs Board of Trustees meets to vote on President Machens university budget cut proposal.

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May 15, 2012 by saveufcise 0 Comments

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You can buy the T-shirt online and well ship it to you.

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Uncategorized t-shirt Pledge your Financial Support for a College of Computing atUF

May 14, 2012 by saveufcise 1 Comment

The SaveCISE community invites you, as a stakeholder in the success of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Department at the University of Florida (UF), to pledge your financial support to a specific future vision of the SaveCISE at UF campaign.

One of the options that has gained the most backing from external supporters is for the CISE department to transition into an independent College of Computing at UF with CISE at its core. Here is the link to the Foundation of a Vision for the College of Computing. This transition will need a fund.

Here we are reaching out to individuals and organizations interested in contributing financially to maintain a nourishing environment for Computer Science at UF through  a College of Computing at UF with CISE at its core.

WE ARE NOT COLLECTING ANY MONEY AT THIS TIME, ONLY PLEDGES. Through this form, we are assessing the level of support available from external donors who would be willing to contribute financially to our cause, in a time of need. So please pledge to our cause in a manner you can honor if the College of Computing with CISE at its core becomes a reality.

Here is the list of people who have pledged financial support to the College of Computing and have agreed to have their names publicized (more or less up to date).

Time since the pledging started:

The total amount pledged so far is:

Here is the pledge form (It contains background and recent events information). Call for Action Dean Abernathys Final Budget CutProposal

May 14, 2012 by saveufcise 0 Comments

On May 11, Dean Cammy Abernathy, along with her administrative colleagues in other colleges, delivered their budget cut proposals to Provost Glover. You can find the 2012-2013 budget cut proposal for each of the University of Florida’s colleges at http://www.ufl.edu/budget-proposals/.

The College of Engineerings FY 2013 Budget Cuts document lacks critical details necessary to judge the health and safety of any individual department. Engineering is not alone. Almost every budget cut proposal omits a department-level breakdown, a breakdown for which concerned parents, students, and alumni of affected units are anxiously awaiting.

We expect Provost Joe Glover would require his deans to produce publicly available, detailed reports. It is shocking that he accepts such minimalistic levels of detail for budget cut proposals. At the April faculty senate meeting, he acknowledged that these budget cuts will cause serious pain to the programs and offerings at the University of Florida.

On April 17, Floridas Board of Governors declared, Our Universities will continue to tap their reserves year-round in order to save course offerings, retain faculty and account for enrollment growth, among other critical demands. President Bernie Machen has elected not to spend the University of Floridas reserves and to instead interpret the one-time budget shortfall as recurring.

Spending of UFs reserves is just one strategy to address these state-mandated one-time cuts. Another is by closing some of the 102 open faculty positions. If the university is in such dire financial straits, its administrators should carefully consider adjusting their hiring strategies before making permanent modifications to their colleges teaching, research, and services. In Florida, the university with the second-most aggressive hiring strategy in these delicate financial times is FIU. FIU has 2 open positions.

Nuri Yeralan
CISE Lead Coordinator

Uncategorized bernie machen, cammy abernathy, joe glover, university of florida Performance: CISE, UF, Public HigherEd

May 14, 2012 by saveufcise 1 Comment

-[ Updated May 31, 2012 ]-

Towards a public discourse about Higher Education Performance    starting within UF colleges, on to the national level.

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What Is This All About?

On April 11th, 2012, Dean Abernathy announced a restructuring proposal would have destroyed the Computer Information Science and Engineering (CISE) department at the University of Florida

Thanks to our SAVE UF supporters within the university, and stakeholders nationwide and globally who reached out to our decision makers, the Abernathy plan is off the table.

However, CISE is still in a perilous situation Read more...

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