Name | Degree, School | E-mail Address | |
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Shirley Becker | Ph.D., University of Maryland | Information Systems | abecker@cs.fit.edu |
Phil Bernhard | Ph.D., SUNY at Albany | Database Systems | pbernhar@cs.fit.edu |
Philip K. Chan | Ph.D., Columbia University | Machine Learning | pkc@cs.fit.edu |
Lina Khatib | Ph.D., Florida Tech | Constraint Reasoning | lina@cs.fit.edu |
Robert A. Morris | Ph.D., Indiana University | Artificial Intelligence | morris@cs.fit.edu |
J. Richard Newman | Ph.D., Southwest Louisiana State | Information Management | newman@cs.fit.edu |
William D. Shoaff | Ph.D., Southern Illinois University | Computer Applications | wds@cs.fit.edu |
Ryan Stansifer | Ph.D., Cornell | Programming Languages | ryan@cs.fit.edu |
James Whittaker | Ph.D., University of Tennessee | Software Engineering | jw@cs.fit.edu |
Name | Degree, School | E-mail Address | |
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Celine Alvey | D.P.A., University of Southern California | Information Systems | calvey@fit.edu |
Frederick B. Buoni | Ph.D., Ohio State University | Decision Analysis | fbb@cs.fit.edu |
R. H. Cofer, Jr. | Ph.D., University of Florida | Image Processing | rhcofer@ee.fit.edu |
Frederick Ham | Ph.D., Iowa State University | Neural Networks | fmh@ee.fit.edu |
New graduate students are assigned faculty advisors by the first few letters of their surnames. The mapping of students to faculty advisors of 1998 is provided below. This list is also posted on the second floor of the Crawford Science Building and is available in the Student Office. Students may request an advisor other than the one assigned.
</B> Advisor | Office | Phone | Surname | |
Dr. Becker | S-235 | 8149 | abecker | A -- Alh |
Dr. Bernhard | S-230 | 7294 | pbernhar | Alk -- Aln |
Dr. Chan | S-237 | 7280 | pkc | Alm -- Az |
Dr. Khatib | S-236 | 7563 | lina | B -- C |
Dr. Morris | S-600 | 7290 | morris | D -- F |
Dr. Shoaff | S-601 | 8066 | wds | G -- L |
Dr. Stansifer | S-234 | 7156 | ryan | M -- S |
Dr. Whittaker | 2-236 | 7638 | jw | T -- Z |
You will need to see your faculty advisor for a number of reasons.
Courses that will be offered in future terms can be found at URL:
We make every effort to offer required courses in a timely manner without scheduling conflicts and to provide interesting electives for our students. However, scheduling is a very difficult problem and it is impossible to satisfy every demand. Please offer your suggestions on course offerings and schedules.
Students in the Master's of Science in Computer Information Systems are required to pass a comprehensive examination in the last term they are registered as a full-time student. Students in the Master's of Science in Computer Science may elect to take a comprehensive examination in the last term they are registered as a full-time student, but they are encouraged to write a thesis under the direction of a member of the computer science faculty.
Information on comprehensive examination is available at the URL:
In a nutshell, the Master's of Science in Computer Information Systems examination consists of three sub-exams:
The Master's of Science in Computer Science examination consists of four sub-exams:
The Computer Science server is cs.fit.edu and accounts for this machine can be obtained in the Harris Lab. You are strongly encouraged to have start an account on this machine -- it may be required for some courses. If you use another mail server, place a .forward file in your home directory.
Computer Science maintains WWW pages at http://www.cs.fit.edu. These pages contain information that should be of interest to you. You may post your own Web pages on our server and add your name to our list of students with a presence on the WWW.
Computer Science has a mailing list server You are encouraged to subscribe via e-mail or web server. To join the list via e-mail, send mail to
You may lease an access key for $25.00 from Margie Beckett, the Computer Science Program secretary on the sixth floor. When you return the key your deposit will be refunded. You may also wish to ask for a ``swipe card'' as a back-up to enter Crawford Science building.
The following people can assist you with your computer account.
Name | Responsibility | Contact |
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Salim Alaoui | SGI and Beowulf Administrator | salaoui@cs.fit.edu |
Henry Bragg | Sun Systems Administrator | hbragg@cs.fit.edu |
Scott Chase | PC Lab Administrator | schase@cs.fit.edu |
Judy Liposky | Harris Lab Manager | liposky@fit.edu |
Shawn Stewart | Sun Systems Administrator | sstewart@cs.fit.edu |
The email address sysadmin@cs.fit.edu can also be used to
report problems.
You are encouraged to become a member of the computer science community at Florida Tech, and the national and international computer science community.