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Microsoft’s College Code Competition (MSFT3C)

Microsoft’s College Code Competition (MSFT3C)

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...

FIU take 2nd place at SwampHacks

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...

Dr. Mark Weiss is selected as IEEE Fellow

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...

CodeFest Miami 2017 at FIU

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

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...