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Borko Furht, Ph.D. is an American scientist, academician, author, consultant, and speaker in the field of computer science and engineering. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science (CEECS) at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also Director of Advanced Knowledge Enablement at FAU.

Career
Furht served as a senior researcher in the Institute Boris Kidric-Vinca, Yugoslavia (1970-82), an associate professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida (1982-87), he was a vice president of research and a senior director of development at MODCOMP (1987-92). He was Senior Assistant Vice President for Engineering and Technology at FAU (2006-08), Chair of Computer Science and Engineering Department at FAU (2002-09) and Chair of the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2009-13).

In 2013, Furht named 2013 Researcher of the Year at Florida Atlantic University.

He was founding Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s journals: Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, and Journal of Big Data. He has published over 35 books and 300 research papers in scientific journals and conferences.

Books

 * “Encyclopedia of Wireless and Mobile Communications,” CRC Press, 2007.
 * “Encyclopedia of Multimedia,” Springer Science and Business Media, 2006.
 * “Multimedia Encryption and Authentication Techniques and Applications,”Auerbach Publications, 2006.
 * “Multimedia Watermarking Techniques and Applications,” Auerbach Publications, 2006.
 * “Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking,” Springer, 2005.
 * “Multimedia Security Handbook,” CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2005.
 * "Handbook of Video Databases: Design and Applications," CRC Press, 2004.
 * “Wireless Internet Handbook: Technologies, Standards, and Applications,” CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2003.
 * "Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval," Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2002.
 * “Application Service Providers – Current Status and Future Trends,” International Engineering Consortium, Chicago, IL, 2001.
 * “Handbook of Internet Computing,” CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2000.
 * “The Future of Unified Messaging,” International Engineering Consortium, Chicago, IL, 2000.
 * “Handbook of Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications”, CRC Press and IEEE Press, 1999.
 * “Handbook of Multimedia Computing,” CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1999.
 * “Multimedia Technologies and Applications for the 21st Century,” Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1998.
 * “Motion Estimation Techniques for Video Compression,” Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1996.
 * “Real-Time Video Compression: Techniques and Algorithms,” Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1996.
 * “Multimedia Systems and Techniques,” Kluwer Academic Publisher, Norwell, MA, 1996.
 * “Multimedia Tools and Applications,” Kluwer Academic Publisher, Norwell, MA, 1996.
 * “A Guided Tour of Multimedia Systems and Applications,” Tutorial, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995.
 * “Video and Image Processing in Multimedia Systems,” Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1995.
 * “Real-Time UNIX Systems: Design and Applications Guide,” Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1991, Translated in Japanese: Nikkei Business Publications, Tokyo, 1991.
 * “Handbook on Design and Applications of MODCOMP Computer Systems,” Modcomp Press, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1989.
 * “Computer Architecture,” IEEE Tutorial, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1987.
 * “Microprocessor Interfacing and Communications with the Intel SDK-85,” Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1986.
 * “The Application of Mathematical Models in Hot Strip Mill Computer Control,” Monograph, Institute Boris Kidric-Vinca, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1977.
 * “The Design of Computer Information Systems,” Technical Book, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1974.