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Celebration of Life Dr. Tao Li

Celebration of Life Dr. Tao Li

Please joy us as the School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University,  will be celebrating the legacy of Dr. Tao Li. The event will take place on Wednesday, March 7th at 3 pm in TechStation (PG6) Main Lobby. Please RSVP to...

IBM Research post Research being performed at I/UCRC CAKE

IBM Research post Research being performed at I/UCRC CAKE

The Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (CAKE), started at Florida International University and Florida Atlantic University under the advocacy of the National Science Foundation. Looking for better-unbiased ways for predicting the performance of financial...

Bring Your Parent to Code Day

Bring Your Parent to Code Day

Bring Your Parent to Code Day is a community event where participants of the FIU Coding Clubs share their coding abilities with parents and siblings. On Saturday, February 17, 2018, the event was held at FIU SCIS Tech Station. These are some interesting numbers about...

Hacking with Amazon Alexa!

Hacking with Amazon Alexa!

MLH LocalHost event: Hacking with Amazon Alexa is hosted by Women in Computer Science (WiCS) and the Association of Computing and Machinery (ACM). This workshop is designed for beginners interested in creating your first skill for Amazon Alexa, the voice service that...

2018 Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge

2018 Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge

Do you have a business idea? Participate in the 2018 Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge for a chance to get covered in The Miami Herald and get exposed to potential investors. The Business Plan Challenge is sponsored by Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center. You only...

Panther Alumni Week with guest Mr. Rick Tuttle

Panther Alumni Week with guest Mr. Rick Tuttle

SCIS had special guest alumni visit, Rick Tuttle, class of 87', for FIU's Panther Alumni Week (P.A.W.). Rick Tuttle is a Senior Web Developer at National Auto Lenders in Miami Lakes where he leads a team building web and mobile apps. Rick was able to visit Maria...

Experience Organizing MangoHacks 18′

Experience Organizing MangoHacks 18′

Author: Maria-Jose Ramos | Medium On multiple occasions, MangoHacks has been described to me as the most fun hackathon they have ever been to. As an organizer, that is what we sacrifice our sleep for. That is why we spend countless hours discussing which color looks...

SCIS student – Got my first job at Google!

SCIS student – Got my first job at Google!

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...