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...
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FIU take 2nd place at SwampHacks
Florida International University place top 3 at SwampHacks, a student led hackathon at the University of Florida, with the development of SwampBox. "We wanted to make it easier, cheaper, safer, and more convenient for per to per rental of goods. Swamp Box improves the...
SCIS Club’s table at Council for Student Organization
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...
Dr. Mark Weiss is selected as IEEE Fellow
Mark Allen Weiss is an Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Engineering and Computing, and Associate Director at FIU's School of Computing and Information Sciences. He is an AAAS Fellow and ACM Distinguished...
Perseverance lands engineering student an internship at MIT
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,...
CodeFest Miami 2017 at FIU
CodeFest Miami (go.fiu.edu/codefest) is a computer science education outreach program created in 2014 by FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) with generous assistance from industry partners and the organizing team Cristy Charters, Mario Eraso, and...
Neural gonna give you up – FIU Students place 1st at UHack 2017
UHack is a 24-hour hackathon hosted by the University of Miami. Florida International University students Mark Fajet, Sheila Alemany, and Jonathan Beltran developed a recurrent neural network that accepts a song and will create sounds like Rick Astley's "Never Gonna...
Tribute to Dr. Tao Li, Eminent Scholar Chair Professor and Graduate Program Director
[bs_well size="md"] Professor Tao Li homepage has been archived for reference purpose. You can find it here: https://users.cs.fiu.edu/archive/taoli/ [/bs_well] Dear President Rosenberg, Provost Furton, Vice President Gil, Vice Provost Newman, Dean Volakis,...
2017 SCIS Annual Awards Banquet
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 Students Working to Build Smart Cities with SOP Technologies
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,...