Borko Furht

Borko Furht is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. He also serves at FAU as a Senior Assistant, Vice President for Technology and Innovations. 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, an Associate Professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and a Senior Researcher 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 and communications, video coding and compression, 3D video and image systems, video databases, wireless multimedia, and Internet computing. He is presently Principal Investigator and Co-PI of several multiyear, multimillion dollar projects – on Coastline Security Technologies, funded by the Office on Naval Research, One Pass to Production, funded by Motorola, and High-Performance Computing, funded by NSF. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the areas of multimedia, communications, 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). He has received several technical and publishing awards, and has consulted for many high-tech companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Xerox, General Electric, JPL, NASA, Honeywell, and RCA. He has also served as a consultant to various colleges and universities. He has given many invited talks, keynote lectures, seminars, and tutorials. He served on the Board of Directors of several high-tech companies.

Biography Updated on 24 October 2007

Personal Home Page

http://www.cse.fau.edu/~borko/

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. New approaches to encryption and steganography for digital videos
    Multimedia Systems, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 191–204, 2007
  2. Digital Video Encryption Algorithms Based on Correlation-Preserving Permutations
    EURASIP Journal on Information Security, vol. 2007, Article ID 52965, 15 pages, 2007
  3. Error resilient video over multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS)
    Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 187–201, 2006
  4. Complexity Estimation of the H.264 Coded Video Bitstreams
    The Computer Journal, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 504–513, 2005
  5. Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 21–50, 2002
  6. Multimedia broadcasting over the Internet. II. Video compression
    IEEE Multimedia, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 85–89, 1999
  7. Multimedia broadcasting over the Internet. I
    IEEE Multimedia, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 78–82, 1998
  8. Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 231–231, 1997
  9. Video and Image Processing in Multimedia Systems Special Issue
    Real-Time Imaging, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1–2, 1996
  10. TheXYZAlgorithm For Real-Time Compression of Full-Motion Video
    Real-Time Imaging, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 19–34, 1996
  11. Design issues for interactive television systems
    Computer, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 25–39, 1995
  12. A Survey of Multimedia Compression Techniques and Standards. Part I: JPEG Standard
    Real-Time Imaging, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 49–67, 1995
  13. A Survey of Multimedia Compression Techniques and Standards. Part II: Video Compression
    Real-Time Imaging, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 319–337, 1995
  14. Are microprocessor designers finally poised for multimedia?
    Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 215–216, 1995
  15. Where is multimedia headed?
    Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 5–8, 1995
  16. Parallel computing: glory and collapse
    Computer, vol. 27, no. 11, pp. 74–75, 1994
  17. Multimedia systems: an overview
    IEEE Multimedia, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 47–59, 1994
  18. A Dataflow Multiprocessor System for Robot Arm Control
    The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 93–103, 1990
  19. Transputer-based dataflow multiprocessor for robot arm control
    Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 219–226, 1989
  20. Performance of REAL/IX
    ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 45–52, 1989
  21. Three-dimensional computers and measuring their performance
    ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 9–16, 1988
  22. An adaptive real-time ECG compression algorithm with variable threshold
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 489–494, 1988
  23. Multiple register window file for ?-oriented RISC architectures
    Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 187–196, 1988
  24. The open channel-three-dimensional computer performance
    Computer, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 59–60, 1988
  25. A RISC architecture with two-size, overlapping register windows
    IEEE Micro, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 67–80, 1988
  26. An Efficient Software Driver Processor Implementation
    IEEE Micro, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 7–19, 1984
  27. The application of the RMX/80 in the multimicroprocessor system for digital signal processing
    Microprocessing and Microprogramming, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 7–15, 1982