Biography
Biographical Information
Borko Furht
Chairman & Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida 33431
Email: borko@cse.fau.edu
URL: www.cse.fau.edu
Dr. Borko Furht is Chairman and Professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton,
Florida. He is the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory at
FAU, funded by National Science Foundation. Before joining FAU, he was a
vice president of research and a senior director of development at Modcomp,
a computer company in Fort Lauderdale, an associate professor at University
of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and a senior scientis in the Institute
"Boris Kidric"-Vinca, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He received his
Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Belgrade,
Yugoslavia. His research interests include multimedia systems and applications,
video processing, wireless multimedia, multimedia security, video databases,
and Internet engineering. He is currently principal investigator or co-principal
investigator and leader of several large multi-year projects including “One
Pass to Production” funded by Motorola, and “Center for Coastline
Security Technologies” funded by US government, Office of Naval Research, as a Federal Earmark
project. He received research grants from various government agencies, such
as NSF, ONR, and NASA, and from private corporations, including Motorola,
IBM, Hewlett Packard, Racal Datacom, Xerox, Apple, and others. He has published
more than 20 books and about 200 scientific and technical papers, and holds
2 patents. His recent books include “Multimedia Security Handbook”
(2005), and “Handbook of Multimedia Databases” (2004), both
published by CRC Press. He is Editor-in-Chief of recently published "Encyclopedia of Multimedia," (Springer, 2006). He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal
of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Kluwer Academic Publishers, now Springer).
He is also consulting editor for two book series on Multimedia Systems and
Applications (Kluwer Publishing Company, now Springer) and Internet and
Communications (CRC Press). He has received several technical and publishing
awards and has consulted for IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, General Electric,
Cisco, JPL, NASA, Honeywell, and RCA. He has also served as a consultant to various
colleges and universities, and has been on the Board of Directors of several
high tech companies. He has given many invited talks, keynote lectures,
seminars, and tutorials. He has been Program Chair as well as a member of
Program Committees at many national and international conferences.