Biography

Borko Furht is a professor and chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. He also serves at FAU as Senior Assistant Vice President for Technology and Innovations. Before joining FAU, he was a vice president of research and a senior director of development at Modcomp (Ft. Lauderdale), a computer company of Daimler Benz, Germany, an associate professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and a senior researcher in the Institute Boris Kidric-Vinca, Yugoslavia. Professor Furht received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Belgrade. His current research is in multimedia systems and communications, video coding and compression, 3D video and image systems, video databases, wireless multimedia, and Internet computing. He is presently Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator of several multiyear, multimillion dollar projects--on Coastline Security Technologies, funded by the Office on Naval Research, One Pass to Production, funded by Motorola, and High-Performance Computing, funded by NSF. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the areas of multimedia, communications, computer architecture, real-time computing, and operating systems. He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer). He has received several technical and publishing awards, and has consulted for many high-tech companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Xerox, General Electric, JPL, NASA, Honeywell, and RCA. He has also served as a consultant to various colleges and universities. He has given many invited talks, keynote lectures, seminars, and tutorials. He served on the Board of Directors of several high-tech companies.