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DOT funds $11.4 million UniversityCity proposal

DOT funds $11.4 million UniversityCity proposal

  SCIS Professor Naphtali Rishe and NSF/CAKE team will deploy an innovative Intelligent Transportation System to assist students, university staff, and community members to move efficiently to and through the FIU campus.   Read more...

Keeping Fitbit safe from hackers and cheaters with FitLock

Keeping Fitbit safe from hackers and cheaters with FitLock

The GigaOM article explores how FIU SCIS Asst. Prof. Dr. Bogdan Carbunar and his team "has shown that Fitbits can be subject to attacks including denial of service, injection, and data capture." The team developed FitLock a tool to address many of the...

SCIS Student wins 2013 McKnight Doctoral Fellowship

SCIS Student wins 2013 McKnight Doctoral Fellowship

Gregory Jean-Baptiste, a recent FIU SCIS Computer Science Bachelors graduate won the Fellowship award which provides an annual stipend and tuition support for up to five years. We congratulate Gregory as he continues his graduate studies with FIU SCIS.   ...