From improving your rehab to rehabbing your nightlife – these are just some of the problems that about 550 students tried to solve at the recent MangoHacks hosted at FIU’s School of Computing & Information Sciences‘ PG6 Tech Station. Participants in FIU’s largest...
Krista Shuckerow, B.S in Statistics, second major – Economics; minor in Computer Science has accepted her first job at Google. As a sophomore, I went to my first hackathon, MangoHacks, at FIU in spring of 2016. I walked in, joined a team, built a project and demoed...
MSFT3C is a free coding competition sponsored and run by Microsoft exclusively for college students. Students come with a team of 3-4 or create their own at the event, the teams will be given an easy, medium and hard question. The team with the most points will win...
The Council for Student Organization held a spring gathering for clubs all around FIU, several of which where part of the School of Information and Computing Sciences. SCIS Clubs participating: Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) WICS...
This past summer, Garcia got the opportunity of a lifetime. He always dreamed of going to MIT so when a friend told him about a summer internship program, he applied. Out of 600 students who applied, 36 were accepted. Garcia was among them. He spent 10 weeks at MIT,...
This year FIU's School of Computing and Information Sciences was filled with a lot of achievements from students, faculty, and staff. The Awards Committee have carefully selected a few faculty, students and staff for this year awards. Please visit the 2017 Awards...
FIU Seniors worked on building a web app to help cities track and analyze data captured by wireless sensors. SOP Technologies' Smart Stormwater system is an Internet of Things (IoT) solution that uses sensors and web interfaces to prevent water pollution,...
Although fun and interesting, quizzes on Facebook have the potential of releasing your personal information to companies. FIU SCIS PhD students Sajedul Talukder, Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, and Georges Kamhouaalong along with CaSPR Labs showed NBC 6 News exactly what...
SCIS Ph.D. student Mozhgan Azimpourkivi co-advised by Dr. Umut Tokara, Bloomberg LP and SCIS Associate Professor, Dr.Bogdan Carbunar have created a custom two-factor authentication (2FA) system called Pixie that relies on users taking a photo of a personal object. The...
FIU SCIS invited 25 young ladies in IT and CS to attend the 2017 Grace Hopper Conference in Orlando, Florida. The girls attended all 3 days of the conference, starting each day with the keynote speeches by some of the most inspiring and leading women in technology,...
