Worlds Ahead graduates are nominated by faculty members to be personally honored during their commencement ceremony. These graduates exhibit outstanding perseverance, intelligence, personal strength, and fully demonstrate and embrace what it means to be Worlds Ahead....
The College of Engineering and Computing hosted the Fall 2018 Senior Design Project Showcase. 77 SCIS students took part in demonstrating their newly acquired skills in software and hardware development. All of the #FIUSCIS students were judged by industry...
Traveling all the way to Princeton, New Jersey to participate in Hack Princeton Fall 2018, FIU students MJ Ramos and David Castaneda spent 36 hours hacking away to represent FIU at one of this seasons most prestigious hackathon ! Inspired from working with kids with...
In this era of rapid technological advancement, new and promising technologies appear seemingly overnight. Upsilon Pi Epsilon’s SparkDev program aims to get students of all skill levels experienced with these new technologies with a nine-week program designed to allow...
The brand-new Telemundo Center has officially been inaugurated with its very first official hackathon! This past weekend of November 2nd, Comcast NBCUniversal held a hackathon to encourage students to develop their skills, network, and compete for a $10,000 grand...
Yesterday, the Academy of CS Education and the School of Computing andInformation Sciences hosted the ACM Southeastern Regional ProgrammingCompetition. We had 17 teams competing on the FIU campus in PG 116. Atotal of about 105 teams competed overall from four sites...
Carlos Lahrssen, Andres Valdes, Angelo Saraceno, MJ Ramos, David Castaneda BC hackathon was a great experience. We found it through the hackathon.com website since it is not yet an MLH event. Since our team consisted of MangoHacks and ShellHacks organizers we were...
SCIS graduate student, Mireya Jurado, co-wrote "The Looming Threat of China- An Analysis of Chinese Influence on Bitcoin" which is getting attention by a few major tech media outlets. The paper states that China has both “mature capabilities” and...
"Virtual Roll Call" has been awarded the 2018 IACP/Security Industry Association Michael Shanahan Leadership in Public/Private Cooperation Award and has identified them as part of an elite group of leaders in the field of Public/Private Cooperation. This award will be...
Kerlin Michel interned at Amazon from February to July 2018 as a software engineer, under Amazon Web Services (AWS) and worked on the AppSync Service. The project Kerlin worked on was a backend-as-a-service. It was a way for users to create server applications while...
