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Re:University of Florida shutting down research in Computer ... by hkmurakami on Thursday April 12, 2012 @01:25PM (#3833342)
Letting go of your best teachers sounds like a brutally flawed decision. The only reason I am now getting back into learning programming after a 8 year hiatus, is because of how great my untenured lecturer was in teaching us and inspiring us in the ways of C programming.

If not for him, there would be far fewer students from my school who would have stuck with programming. In 2004, we made a facebook group called "Everything I know about C I learned from [insert guy's name]". From what I can tell, the number of former students in this group keeps growing every year. He is beloved by all his current and former students, and I would vehemently protest to the school/department if he ever got cut prematurely for any reason.

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Re:University of Florida shutting down research in Computer ... by uf_cise_alumnus on Thursday April 12, 2012 @10:14PM (#3835100)
If you're talking about Dave, he did get cut prematurely.
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Re:University of Florida shutting down research in Computer ... by iopuy on Friday April 13, 2012 @12:22AM (#3835381)
What the hell happened? He was the only one that cared.
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Re:University of Florida shutting down research in Computer ... by registered99 on Monday April 16, 2012 @02:35AM (#3846197)
Fired since he didn't have a PhD
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Re:University of Florida shutting down research in Computer ... by daveob on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @03:36PM (#3854558)
I graduated in 2004 and did NOT like Dave. Too much ego. He cared more about people listening to him talk than learning the material. I know he was loved by others, and am sorry he lost his job.
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Re:University of Florida shutting down research in Computer ... by rmse17 on Friday April 13, 2012 @12:12AM (#3835363)
CISE professors will be able to join EE/ECE.
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Re:University of Florida shutting down research in Computer ... by christangrant on Friday April 13, 2012 @02:37AM (#3835637)
According to the proposal "Roughly half of the faculty will be offered the opportunity to move to ECE, BME or ISE."

The dean also stated several times and faculty must be accepted into this different dept. So it is not clear who which faculty will be allowed to continue research.

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