About $1.7 Million To Be Cut From University Of Florida CISE Department Budget.

That’s the headline.

There is better coverage elsewhere:

From Computerworld and a local news paper in Florida.

This likely will impact the Computer Vision work at UFL.

The plan is to eliminate research from the department — maybe to move it elsewhere, which sounds more like rearranging deck chairs and turn the department into a service (teaching only) department. Turmoil never helps on the research side.