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Comment Re:"What were you thinking?" (Score 1) 628

by mnanu on Monday April 23, 2012 @08:16PM (#39777721) Attached to: University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department

"That department did not publish well enough and the students did not bring in enough money". How did you come to this conclusion? I am a PhD student at UF and this is not true at all. It is the best CS dept in Florida and one of the best in the southeast of the country. The enrollment is so high that it brings in 17% of the college revenues while consuming only 10% of the budget.

Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 628

by mnanu on Monday April 23, 2012 @08:13PM (#39777681) Attached to: University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department

Well CISE is actually the dept with the highest revenue to expenditure ratio in the college of engineering at UF. The budget cut is not based on sound economics

Submission + - University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department (forbes.com) 2

Submitted by DustyShadow on Sunday April 22, 2012 @05:51PM

DustyShadow writes: The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million. The school is eliminating all funding for teaching assistants in computer science, cutting the graduate and research programs entirely, and moving the tattered remnants into other departments. Students at UF have already organized protests, and have created a website dedicated to saving the CS department. Several distinguished computer scientists have written to the president of UF to express their concerns, in very blunt terms. Prof. Zvi Galil, Dean of Computing at Georgia Tech, is “amazed, shocked, and angered.” Prof. S.N. Maheshwari, former Dean of Engineering at IIT Delhi, calls this move “outrageously wrong.” Computer scientist Carl de Boor, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and winner of the 2003 National Medal of Science, asked the UF president “What were you thinking?”

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