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Dr. Rishe is the Author of 3 books on database
design and geography;
Editor of 5 books on database management and high performance
computing; Inventor of 4
U.S. patents on database querying, semantic database
performance, Internet data extraction, and computer medicine; Author
of 300 papers in journals and proceedings on databases, software
engineering, Geographic Information Systems, Internet, and life
sciences; Awardee of over
$40 million in research grants by Government and Industry, including
NASA, NSF, IBM, DoI, USGS; Architect of
major
industrial projects -- both prior to his academic career, and as a
consultant since;
Founder and Director of the High Performance Database
Research Center at FIU (HPDRC); Director of the NSF Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology at FIU (CREST) and of the NSF International FIU-FAU-Dubna Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (I/UCRC); Mentor of 70 postdocs, PhDs and MS;
the inaugural FIU
Outstanding University Professor. Rishe's TerraFly project has been
extensively covered by worldwide press, including
the New York Times, USA Today, NPR,
Science and Nature journals, and FOX TV News.
Principal Projects:
High Performance Database Research Center,
School of Computing and Information Sciences,
University Park, FIU ECS-243, Miami, FL 33199
Telephone: (305) 348-1706;
FAX: (305) 348-1707;
http://hpdrc.fiu.edu