Artificial intelligence, designed to get machines to do intelligent things, is not new – it’s been around for nearly 70 years. Siri, Alexa and that robot vacuum that sweeps your floors are all examples of AI. Like humans, these machines are undergoing an evolution and...
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Luis Irizarry of Squadflick
Original published date: February 21st, 2019 FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences alumni, Luis Irizarry, moved to Miami, Fl in 2007 from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He graduated in the Fall of 2013 with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science....
UPE Member Selected for Twitter #EarlyBird Program!
UPE member and FIU SCIS student Taylor Rivera were recently selected to attend Twitter's #EarlyBird event in San Francisco, California. She was one of the 35 students selected from over a thousand who applied to take part in this program. She was also the only FIU...
Dr. S.S. Iyengar receives an award from PUT in Poland
Dr. S.S. Iyengar (center) receives award from PUT in Poland Dr. S.S. Iyengar, director of FIU's School of Computing & Information Sciences in Miami, Florida, recently visited Poland as part of the Fulbright Specialist Program. The program, part of the U.S....
SCIS student elected into student government
As of Wednesday, April 9th, the elections for the next Student Government Association term finally concluded. The campaign was a long one; from debates, to town halls, to even a recount for the presidency and two entire schools. Now, as of Monday, April 15th, the...
Chevron Sponsors UPE & WiCS
Chevron invited UPE, WiCS, and other student organizations they sponsored this past year for a Lunch and Learn at the Engineering Center this week. They had the opportunity to speak to their representatives about how Chevron's donation has impacted their programs and...
I am a Sophomore, now what?
“Do today what others won’t, so tomorrow you can do what others can’t” It’s been close to two years since I moved to the United States from India to attend the Honors College at Florida International University (FIU) majoring in Computer Science. Since I...
FIU’s ACM Student Chapter has been recognized for Outstanding Chapter Activities
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida is the winners of the 2018-2019 ACM Student Chapter Excellence Awards in Chapter Activities. FIU's ACM student chapter, led by chapter president Rahul Mittal and...
Dr. Monique Ross receives NSF Career Award
Dr. Monique Ross Join us as we congratulate Dr. Monique Ross for being awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award. Under her direction the project, CAREER: Cracking the Diversity Code: Understanding Computing Pathways of those Least Represented, was...
IT Software Project Showcase
Professor Greg Reis worked directly with his students during his course, Component-Based Software Development - COP 4814, in development of applications. Applications using API requests, frameworks such as Flask and Django, programming languages such as Python and...