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The controversy surrounding a drastic restructuring of the University of Florida's CS department is still unresolved. The CS students have continued receiving support, including an e-mail to University of Florida president from Zvi Galil, dean of the College of Computing. Source: Communications of the ACM
Michael Best (Interactive Computing) said his lab was receiving an average of 50 messages per second through social media during the 2011 general elections in Nigeria, adding that his laboratory worked with some civil society groups to monitor the election. Source: Business Day
Marshini Chetty (Interactive Computing) conducted a study that shows negative user experiences associated with bandwidth caps. However, Chetty believes the pressure put on Internet users could be relieved with the right data usage monitoring tools. Source: Daily Tech
