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Computer Science Department
College of Engineering
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida
 Detailed InformationPrograms of StudyThe Department of Computer Sciences offers programs of graduate study leading to the degrees of Master of Science in Computer Science, Master of Science in Software Engineering, and Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. Major areas of study include artificial intelligence, computer security, data mining and machine learning, database systems, information assurance, programming languages, software engineering, software testing, and Web technology.
The master’s degree in computer science offers students the opportunity to pursue advanced studies in various areas of computer science. The program is designed for students with baccalaureate degrees in computer science and provides a solid preparation for those who may pursue a doctorate. All students must complete and defend a thesis or pass a final program examination during their last semester.
The master’s degree in software engineering offers the student the opportunity to advance their skills in software development and software project management. The program is designed for students with baccalaureate degrees in computer science or closely related fields. Software testing and computer security are fields of emphasis within the Department. All students must complete and defend a thesis or pass a final program examination during their last semester.
The doctoral program is designed to provide research in the disciplines of computer science. The program requires broad knowledge of computer science fundamentals, mastery of a specialized subject, and the creativity to produce a dissertation based on original research. Research FacilitiesThe computer science program occupies approximately 2,750 square feet of laboratory space and 2,000 square feet of office space in the F. W. Olin Engineering Complex, a state-of-the-art teaching and research facility. Computer laboratories support active research programs in artificial intelligence, database systems, programming languages, software engineering, software testing, and Web technology. The program provides graduate students with a wide range of computing resources for course work and research. There are six computer laboratories reserved for computer science students. The College of Engineering and the University provide additional computer laboratories for student use. Computer resources include Unix and Windows servers and clients. All machines are connected on a 1-Gb internal network and externally to Internet2. Financial AidGraduate teaching and research assistantships are available to qualified students. For 2009–10, stipends range from $9500 to $10,000 for nine months. All assistantships include tuition remission. Computer-based information on scholarships, loan funds, and other student assistance may be obtained from the Financial Aid Office and the Department’s Web site at http://cs.fit.edu. Cost of StudyIn 2009–10, tuition is $1015 per semester credit hour for all graduate students. Tuition is remitted for students awarded assistantships. Living and Housing CostsThe cost of living in central Florida is approximately 15 percent lower than the national average. Housing for single students is available in on-campus dormitories. Efficiency apartments as well as one-, two-, or three-bedroom apartments for single and married students can be obtained in the area surrounding the Institute. Average monthly rental rates range from $325 to $550. Student GroupThe Department currently has an enrollment of 160 graduate students from colleges throughout the world. Approximately 25 percent of the graduate students are women, and 59 percent are international students. Student OutcomesGraduates of the College of Engineering have found employment with such firms as IBM, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Oracle, Cadence, NASA, Harris Corp., AT&T, General Electric, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas, Rockwell International, Advanced Micro Devices, USF&G, United Technologies, Honeywell, Computer Sciences Raytheon, ITT Aerospace, U.S. Patent Office, CIA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and Rational Software. LocationFlorida Tech’s main campus is located in Melbourne, a residential community on Florida’s Space Coast. Melbourne is the key city in south Brevard County, which also encompasses nine other smaller communities on the mainland and beachside. The Kennedy Space Center and Disney World are within a 90-minute drive of the Institute. The area’s economy is a well-balanced mix of electronics, aviation, light manufacturing, opticals, communications, agriculture, and tourism. The InstituteFlorida Tech was founded in 1958 and has developed rapidly into a university that provides both undergraduate and graduate education in the sciences and engineering for selected students from throughout the United States and many countries. Current enrollment on the Melbourne campus is about 4,000. In addition to computer sciences, Florida Tech offers graduate programs in aerospace engineering, airport development management, applied mathematics, aquaculture, aviation science, biotechnology, business administration, cell and molecular biology, chemical engineering, chemistry, civil engineering, computer education, computer engineering, ecology, electrical engineering, engineering management, environmental management, environmental resource management, environmental science, industrial/organizational psychology, managerial communication, marine biology, mathematics education, mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, oceanography, operations research, physics, science education, space sciences, and technical and professional communication. ApplyingFurther information and application forms for admission may be obtained from the Graduate Admissions Office. Students are required to take the GRE General Test and encouraged to take the Subject Test in Computer Science and submit scores for consideration. Separate application for financial aid must be made on forms available from the Department’s Web site at http://cs.fit.edu and must be submitted by March 15. The Faculty and Their Research
- William Allen, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Central Florida, 2003. Network security. Generic danger detection for mission continuity. In Proceedings: Eighth International Symposium on Network Computing and Application, 2009 (with R. Ford et al). The ISDF framework: Integrating security patterns and best practices. In Proceedings: Third International Conference on Information Security and Assurance, 2009 (with A. Alkussayer). (E-mail: wallen@cs.fit.edu)
- Phil Bernhard, Associate Professor; Ph.D., SUNY at Albany, 1988. Databases, database performance tuning and optimization, software engineering. Extracting data models from legacy database systems: A case study in reverse engineering. Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 20–23, 2005, CSREA Press, 2005 (with E. Wilson, A. Hebert, and K. L. Fox). (E-mail: pbernhar@cs.fit.edu)
- Pat Bond, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Georgia, 1976. Software architecture, software systems. Better prediction of software failure times using order statistics. Journal of Chinese International Industrial Engineering, in press (with N. Abosaq). Improvement of software reliability modeling predictions by the detection and removal of test outliers. In ACM-SE 47: Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Southeast Regional Conference, New York, New York, 2009 (with N. Abosaq). Better prediction of software failure times using robust statistical techniques. In Asian International Workshop on Advanced Reliability Modeling, 2008 (with N. Abosaq). (E-mail: pbond@cs.fit.edu)
- Philip K. Chan, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Columbia, 1996. Scalable and adaptive systems, machine learning, data mining, parallel and distributed computing. Increasing coverage to improve detection of network and host anomalies. Mach. Learn., in press (with G. Tandon). Learning implicit user interest hierarchy for context in personalization. Appl. Intell. 28(2):153–66, 2008 (with H. R. Kim). (E-mail: pkc@cs.fit.edu)
- Richard Ford, Associate Professor; D.Phil., Oxford, 1992. Information assurance, network security. Probabilistic suf?x models for API sequence analysis of Windows XP applications. Pattern Recogn. 41(1):90–101, 2008 (with G. Mazeroff, J. Gregor, and M. Thomason). How not to be seen ii: The defenders ?ght back. IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine 5(6):65–8, 2007 (with W. H. Allen).
- Cem Kaner, Professor; Ph.D., McMaster, 1984; J.D., Golden Gate, 1993. Building a free courseware community around an online software testing curriculum. Eighth Annual MERLOT International Conference, August, 2008 (with R. L. Fiedler and S. Barber). A cautionary note on checking software engineering papers for plagiarism. IEEE Transactions on Education 51(2):184–8, 2008 (with R. L. Fiedler). Good enough V and V for simulations: Some possibly helpful thoughts from the law and ethics of commercial software. In Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Providence, Rhode Island, April, 2008 (with S. J. Swenson). (E-mail: ckaner@cs.fit.edu)
- Gerald Marin, Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State, 1970. Computer networks, network security. A three-tier damage-driven security infrastructure for mission continuity. In Proceedings, IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2008 (with M. Carvalho, R. Ford, and W. Allen). Towards the detection of emulated environments via analysis of the stochastic nature of system calls. Proceedings, Twentieth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 2008 (with T. Praveen et al). (E-mail: gmarin@cs.fit.edu)
- Ronaldo Menezes, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., York (England), 1999. Coordination and distributed systems, parallel models of computing. Handling dynamic networks using evolution in ant-colony optimization. In IEA/AIE ’08: Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, pp. 795–804, 2008 (with C. Roach). An adaptive in-network aggregation operator for query processing in wireless sensor networks. J. Syst. Software 81(3):328–42, 2008 (with A. Brayner et al). A study of terrain coverage models. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, New York, New York, pp. 1964–8, 2008. (E-mail: rmenezes@cs.fit.edu)
- Debasis Mitra, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur), 1984; Ph.D., Louisiana at Lafayette, 1994. Artificial intelligence, spatio-temporal reasoning. Geant4 simulation of a cosmic ray muon tomography system with micro pattern gas detectors for the detection of high-z materials. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, June 2009 (with J. Helsby et al). (E-mail: dmitra@cs.fit.edu)
- J. Richard Newman, Professor and Vice President for Information Technology; Ph.D., Southwestern Louisiana, 1976. Software engineering, information systems management, CASE tools for clean-room software engineering, legal issues, program specification tools. An undergraduate curriculum in software engineering. Proc. Fourth Annu. Conf. Software Eng. Educ., SEI. April 1990 (with Mills and Engle). Performance issues for an expert system written in Ada. Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Florida Academy of Sciences. Melbourne, Florida, March 23, 1990 (with Buoni and Baggs). (E-mail: newman@cs.fit.edu)
- Eraldo Ribeiro, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., York (England), 2000. Computer vision and animation. Learning structural models in multiple projection spaces. In ICIAR ’09 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, 2009 (with R. Filipovych). Discovering constrained substructures in bayesian trees using the e.m. algorithm. In ICIAR ’08: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2008. (E-mail: eribeiro@cs.fit.edu)
- William D. Shoaff, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Southern Illinois, 1981. Mathematical programming, parallel algorithms, parallel processing, supercomputers, computer modeling in genetics, computer graphics. Texture mapping with wavelet transforms. IASTED Comput. Graphics Imaging, pp. 289–93, 1999. Integrating literate programming and cleanroom software engineering. Second Australasian Conf. Comput. Sci. Educ., 1997. Domain independent temporal reasoning with recurring events. Comput. Intelligence, 1996. (E-mail: wds@cs.fit.edu)
- Marius Silaghi, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 2002. Artificial intelligence, distributed problem solving, asynchronous algorithms. Maintaining consistency for ABT. Directed soft arc consistency in pseudo-trees. In Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Mulitiagent Systems, 2009 (with T. Matsui et al). ADOPT-ing: Unifying asynchronous distributed optimization with asynchronous backtracking. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), November 2008. (E-mail: msilaghi@cs.fit.edu)
- Ryan Stansifer, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Cornell, 1985. Programming languages, compilers, information systems, internationalization. Implementations of bidirectional reordering algorithms. Higher-order functional programming and wildcards in Java. In ACM-SE 45: Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Southeast Regional Conference., New York, New York, 2007 (with N. Sridranop). (E-mail: ryan@cs.fit.edu)
- Scott Tilley, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Victoria (British Columbia), 1995. Software engineering and evolution; computer security. A case study in test management. In ACMSE 45: Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth Annual Southeast Regional Conference, New York, New York, 2007 (with T. Praveen and G. Gonzales). Managing legal risks associated with intellectual property on the Web. Int. J. Bus. Inf. Syst., 3(1): 86–106, 2008 (with H. Kienle, D. German, and H. Muller). (E-mail: stilley@cs.fit.edu)
Correspondence and InformationFlorida Institute of Technology Graduate Admissions Office 150 West University Boulevard Melbourne, Florida 32901-6975 Telephone:
321-674-8027 Fax:
407-723-9468
Email:
grad-admissions@fit.edu Florida Institute of Technology Dr. W. D. Shoaff, Head Department of Computer Sciences 150 West University Boulevard Melbourne, Florida 32901-6975 Telephone:
321-674-8763
Email:
wds@cs.fit.edu
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