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Center of Informatics of UFPE |
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Center of Informatics of UFPE |
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Our commitment to quality and competence in research and education is
only one of the factors responsible for making the Center of
Informatics of the Federal University of Pernambuco one of the largest
and best academic complexes dedicated to Computer Science in Latin
America, and one of top five CS academic centers in Brazil. Great
effort and dedication was needed to acquire the stature enjoyed today.
In 1974, the Statistics and Informatics Department at UFPE was created,
offering degrees and graduate courses in Computer Science. In 1983, the
Informatics Department was separated from the Statistics Department.
Sixteen years later, in 1999, the department, that then was part of the
Center for Exact and Natural Sciences (CCEN), was raised to the level
of Center, with the same status in hierarchy given to other Centers at
UFPE.
With over thirty years of existence, the Center is very important to
the economic and technological development of the state of Pernambuco
and of the rest of the northeastern region of Brazil. This is due in
part to the high academic credentials of the faculty members, 54 of
them with PhD degrees and 3 with MSc degrees, along with constant
improvements in the BSc degree courses (Computer Science and Computer
Engineering) and graduate courses in Computer Science (PhD and MSc
degrees, MBA in Technology Management and other specializations). The
Informatics Center is also always investing in infrastructure to better
assist its students and lecturers.
In the last ten years, the Center has been attracting projects from
large private corporations, promoting the development of new
technologies and processes for the ecosystem. In particular, the Center
maintains a close partnership with great institutions such as
C.E.S.A.R. – The Center for Studies and Advanced Systems of Recife –
and Softex Recife, along with establishing excellent relations (in part
due to the incentives of the Informatics Law) with companies like
Motorola, Samsung, Epson, Itautec, Positivo, Mecaf, Leucotron and
Engentron, originating a successful model of symbiosis between the
University and the ICT industry.
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Infrastructure |
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The Center of Informatics has 13 teaching and research laboratories,
with over 350 computers running Windows and/or Unix operating systems,
available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In addition, the lecturers, researchers, and graduate students have
their own personal computers, elevating the total number of computers
to more than 500. The Center is connected to the Internet through the
RNP (National Research Network) at a speed of 100 Mbps.
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Lecturers |
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56 members of our teaching staff act in a balanced manner in various
areas and lines of research. Most of our lecturers have research
grantsand a large number of them are members of program committees in
their area, many being responsible for the organization of well known
events such as the SBC, SBES, SBBD, SBRC, SBIA, SEMISH, SBLP, and SBMF
Congresses, to name a few.
There is also an ongoing effort on the renovation of the teaching staff, with a view towards hiring new lecturers.
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Alumni |
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The
Center of Informatics at UFPE, always looking towards innovating
services, introduced the Informatics Center Alumni Association,
composed of former undergraduate and graduate students. The idea is to
form a large network of exclusive relationships to reunite, integrate,
and promote professionals who can have on an important advantage in
their professional lives: academic training in a learning institution
with national and international recognition.
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