University of Florida shutting down research in Computer Science department

Re:University of Florida shutting down research in Computer ... by luser001 on Thursday April 12, 2012 @01:17PM (#3833307)

Seems like the university is deciding to focus on Electrical and Computer Engineering and deemphasize Computer Science.

Core competence and all that.

It even has an odd name like CISE (Computer and Information Science and Engineering).

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120411/ARTICLES/1204198...

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Re:University of Florida shutting down research in Computer ... by ja27 on Thursday April 12, 2012 @03:46PM (#3833886)

Computer Science programs have many different roots. I think the most common is for them to grow out of Electrical Engineering departments where they end up tightly coupled with Computer Engineering, lots of hardware emphasis, etc. But they can also grow out of departments like math or information / library science. Then they may end up fairly far from the engineering departments.

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Re:University of Florida shutting down research in Computer ... by uf_cise_alumnus on Thursday April 12, 2012 @10:17PM (#3835110)

Yeah that name is pretty odd. Oh wait, what's this thing I see at the National Science Foundation?

http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE

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Re:University of Florida shutting down research in Computer ... by ryguytilidie on Thursday April 12, 2012 @05:53PM (#3834359)

How on earth is a University doing this in 2012? Just makes no sense at all that you would cut one of the fastest growing fields on earth...

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