Florida's tech boom is no longer just a moment. It's a movement. That was made clear recently at ShellHacks, Florida’s largest hackathon. More than 1,200 hackers from all over the world participated in the 36-hour coding fest at FIU’s Biscayne Bay...
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The first-ever Women in Tech Conference (WiTCON) at Florida International University (FIU) is set to take place on March 24th, and has already generated overwhelming enthusiasm within the FIU community. The event is being held at FIU's main campus in PG6, and...
On Saturday, February 25, FIU hosted the Southeast regional International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC). Twenty-one of the 90 teams that competed yesterday from across the southeast region (Florida, Georgia, S. Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi) came to our...
A drowsy college student peels himself out of a sleeping bag as the morning sun illuminates the Kovens Conference Center. Spread out around him, coders sit at round tables, clicking away on their keyboards. A woman in an FIU sweater paces back and forth...
The Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Chapter at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences received the UPE National Board’s Continuing Excellence Award alongside the University of California, Berkeley Chapter. The announcement came during the UPE...
In its fifth year, the NSF-awarded Florida IT Pathways to Success project (Flit-Path) has provided 127 scholarships to FIU students in computer science, information technology and computer engineering. Ninety of these students have graduated and are working in the...
Name: Azhar Ali Hometown: Marabella, Trinidad and Tobago What is your major: Computer Science and Mathematics Where did you intern? What did you do there? I interned at Facebook as a Facebook University (FBU) Engineering intern. FBU is a freshman/sophomore program...
With the beginning of the final semester of 2020, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the largest technology organization within FIU, held its 2020 Fall Kickoff General Meeting virtually via Zoom on August 28th. The meeting was open to all students regardless of major or...
Name: Glenda Gonzalez Hometown: Miami, FL What is your major: Computer science Where did you intern? What did you do there? I interned virtually at Allstate as a software engineer within their Allstate Dealer Services (ADS) department. How did you get your...
