Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering
 
The Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering is concerned with the theory, design, development and application of computer systems and information processing techniques. The mission of the CISE department is to educate undergraduate and graduate majors as well as the broader campus community in the fundamental concepts of the computing discipline, to create and disseminate computing knowledge and technology, and to use our expertise in computing to help society solve problems.
 
 
Departmental News
AESTHETIC COMPUTING LEADS THE WAY FOR NEW INTERFACES IN MATH, COMPUTING AND SCIENCE
Posted - 4/12/04

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- One day in 1997 as Dr. Paul Fishwick, professor in the CISE Department, was returning home on a flight, he observed the landscape, dotted with objects. “Wouldn’t it be something,” he thought, “if all of those objects represented equations or parts of computer programs?” And thus, the field of Aesthetic Computing was born. Aesthetic computing, a term coined by Fishwick, attempts to take the abstract world of math, equations, and formulas and put them into two-dimensional or three-dimensional representation in either digital or tangible forms to facilitate better understanding of mathematical formulas or scientific concepts.   FULL ARTICLE
UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF HOW VIRUSES FORM: UF PROFESSOR MAKES HEADWAY WITH COMPUTER SIMULATION AND MODELS
Posted - 4/12/04

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Dr. Meera Sitharam is using geometry, computer simulation, and modeling to approach the age-old problem among scientists about how biological viruses form. “There has been much work on the study of viruses since the l950s, but the issue of how they assemble and form is poorly understood,” says Sitharam.   FULL ARTICLE
 
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