Researchers introduced a mobile application and a website to help residents of Flint, Michigan easily find water crisis information. Mywater-Flint is an Android application and website, Mywater-Flint.com, developed by Dr. Mark Allison, a former PhD student and now...
Student Highlight
SCIS Alumni reached $950K goal during StartUP FIU
If the numbers are right, we’ll fund you. ~ Howard Lubert of Keiretsu Forum Jason Dettbarn, School of Computing and Information Sciences alumni, introduced a business that he developed in collaboration with a senior design course. His team includes several former...
SCIS Student W. Victor H. Yarlott visits The Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is an annual,invitation-only event which brings young Mathematics and CS researchers together with Abel, Fields, and Turing distinguished laureates. FIU CIS Ph.D. Student W. Victor H. Yarlott shares his inspiring experiences at the forum...
NSF grant to increase CS & IT graduates
This grant will support our commitment to those students at risk of dropping out of college when they are within striking distance of graduation ~ Mark Weiss The NSF grant, scholarships are part of a $5 million, five-year grant offered to Florida International...
Shonda and Shalisha Witherspoon create a path for women in Tech
Information technology majors, identical twins, Shonda and Shalisha Witherspoon, walked across the graduation stage this morning sharing top honors in their graduating class at Florida International University. With a matching 3.95 GPAs Also, becoming the first...
Programming Team won third place at the IEEE SoutheastCon
The FIU CIS Programming Team won third place (out of 26 colleges) in the software competition at the IEEE SoutheastCon conference in Fort Lauderdale on April 11th, 2015. The winning team pictured above is (from left to right) Alan Nieto, Giuseppe Vietri Ottati, and...
Fausto C. Fleites is a Worlds Ahead Graduate
Worlds Ahead - Fausto Fleites Fausto Fleites was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. Taught himself how to write computer programs. Studied Computer Science at Havana University. In 2004, left Cuba. Despite language challenges, Fausto graduated with a 3.99 GPA. Technical...
FIU’s Hybrid Man-Machine Cops
FIU's Discovery Lab and U.S. navy reserves join by bringing to life robots that will patrol the cities. Being remote controlled by veterans, and changing the way they recover. Read more...
FIU Alumni and Students win at Miami AT&T Mobile App Hackathon
1st Place: "Social Ball Handling" by Unboxed Labs: Alina Balean, Jason Clary, Raul F. Hernandez, Ricardo Vasquez, Leo Correa, and Jesse Domack. "Best use of Sphero SDK": Game Developers Guild by Lazaro Herrera, Frank Hernandez, and Rene Alfonso. Congrats also to all...
FIU Student Startup using KickStarter to bootstrap game development
Oneironaut Games, the student-founded company is being incubated in the Game Developers Guild hosted at the Collaborative Open Innovation Lab in the FIU Engineering Center. Kickstarter is the largest of dozens of sites, including Peerbackers.com based in Palm Beach...