09/04/2025
📣Mark your calendars for the next CENTRA 9 meeting January 10-12, 2026, Pathumthani, Thailand.
On behalf of the CENTRA 9 organizing committee, Thammasat University is pleased to invite colleagues from around the globe to the 9th CENTRA meeting January 10-12, 2026, in Pathumthani, Thailand. More information will be forthcoming at https://www.globalcentra.org/ .
01/02/2025
On behalf of the CENTRA 8 organizing committee, the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) at the National Research Laboratories (NARLabs), Taiwan is pleased to invite our colleagues from around the globe to the 8th CENTRA meeting on February 22-25, 2025, in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It is with great excitement and anticipation that we gather under the theme, Bridging Innovation and Connectivity: Pioneering the Future of IT and LLM Collaboration. For more information, please visit: https://www.globalcentra.org/centra8/.
10/07/2024
Several members of the Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory (ACIS) from the University of Florida attended the SPNHC-TDWG 2024 Conference, Sept. 2-6, 2024 in Okinawa, Japan. Attendees included, Dr. José A.B. Fortes, Founder and Director of the ACIS Lab., Manuel Luciano, Systems Administrator and Michael Elliott, Graduate Research Assistant. Michael presented “Integrating LLMs and the iDigBio portal for conversational data exploration and inference." View the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXnhKGUQREU (29:57 – 45:18) 🙂🌿
01/19/2024
Colleagues from around the globe are invited to the 7th CENTRA meeting on February 6-9, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. CENTRA 7 will include two symposiums, presentations, and breakout sessions for continuing collaboration with our international partners. We see the meeting as a great opportunity to continue the momentum from the previous CENTRA meeting and for global exchange of ideas on artificial intelligence (AI) and the Edge-Cloud Continuum related topics.
Registration deadline extended to January 22, 2024 (JST). For more information, please visit our website: https://www.globalcentra.org/centra7/.
09/11/2023
Congratulations to UF👏 #1!
The Wall Street Journal named the University of Florida the No. 1 public university in the country in its "2024 Best Colleges in the U.S." report. We are honored to be a part of such a wonderful institution!
08/10/2023
The CENTRA 6 Meeting: AI in the Edge-Cloud-HPC Continuum (September 12-15, 2023) will be hosted by The Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) at Indiana University (IU). CENTRA 6 will include a 1-day workshop, Globally Situated Perspectives on AI in the Edge-Cloud-HPC Continuum, for talks on early research.
Important Dates
• 2023.06.09: CENTRA 6 registration and hotel block open
• 2023.08.15: CENTRA 6 regular registration closes (dietary, accessibility, and name badge information accepted)
• 2023.08.23: CENTRA 6 hotel block closes
• 2023.08.25: Workshop paper submissions deadline
• 2023.09.01: Workshop notification of acceptance
• 2023.09.15: Workshop camera-ready deadline
As soon as possible: check Visa Information and follow up accordingly if you need to obtain a visa to enter the United States of America.
For more information, please visit globalcentra.org
05/25/2023
https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/526752/systems-adminprogrammer-iii
University of Florida - Details - Systems Admin/Programmer III
Apply now Job no: 526752 Work type: Staff Full-Time Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL) Categories: Information Technology Department:19050000 - EG-ELECTRICAL / COMPUTER ENG
10/24/2022
Several members of the ACIS Laboratory attended the TDWG 2022 Conference on Biodiversity Information Standards in Sofia, Bulgaria last week.
Attendees:
Dr. Jose Fortes, Director
Maureen Kelly, System Administrator
Michael Elliott, Ph.D. Student
Chris Wilson, System Administrator (not pictured)
The weeklong conference offered symposia, workshops, poster presentations and discussions on management of biodiversity data. This knowledge contributes to the team's extensive research on the iDigBio project at the University of Florida! 🌿
More information: https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2022/
10/29/2021
ECE Florida is hiring 4 full-time tenure-track positions in . Areas include: self-aware AI computing systems, artificial intelligence of things (AIOT), cognitive architectures, and machine learning & climate. Learn More: http://ow.ly/5J3X50GvsOh
09/07/2021
Saw this coming into work today. It's a group of blocks for the outside wall of Malachowsky Hall and is much larger than it looks in this image. See pic of entire building on the bottom. Very interesting!