Biography
Biographical Information
Borko Furht is a professor and chairman of the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also Director of the NSF-sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement. 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, a professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and a senior scientist in the Institute Boris Kidric-Vinca, Yugoslavia. Professor Furht received Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Belgrade. His current research is in multimedia systems, video coding and compression, 3D video and image systems, video databases, wireless multimedia, and Internet computing. He has been Principal Investigator and Co-PI of several multiyear, multimillion dollar projects – on Coastline Security Technologies, funded by the Department of Navy, I/U CRC Center funded by NSF, One Pass to Production funded by Motorola, NSF PIRE project on Global Living Laboratory for Cyber Infrastructure Application Enablement, and High-Performance Computing grant from NSF. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the areas of multimedia, Internet engineering, 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, 1993). He recently founded and serves as Editor-in-Chief (jointly with Dr. Khoshgoftaar) of the International Journal of Big Data (Springer, 2013). His latest books include "Handbook of Data Intensive Computing" (Springer 2011), "Handbook of Augmented Reality" (Springer, 2011), "Handbook of Cloud Computing" (Springer 2010), "Handbook of Social Network Technologies and Applications" (Springer 2010), "Handbook of Multimedia for Digital Entertainment and Arts" (Springer, 2009), Long Term Evolution: 3GPP LTE Radio and Cellular Technology" (CRC Press, 2009), "Encyclopedia of Wireless and Mobile Communications, 2nd Edition" (CRC Press, 2012), "Handbook of Media Broadcasting" (CRC Press, 2008), and "Encyclopedia of Multimedia" (Springer 2008). He has received several technical and publishing awards, and has consulted for many high-tech companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, General Electric, JPL, NASA, Honeywell, and RCA, and has been an expert wetness for Cisco and Qualcomm. He has also served as a consultant to various colleges and universities. He has given many invited talks, keynote lectures, seminars, and tutorials. He serves on the Board of Directors of several high-tech companies.