SCIS congratulates Ms. Medhini Narasimhan, a visiting undergraduate student, for winning the ISCB Student Council Best Poster Award at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference (ISMB 2016). Congratulations to Prof.Narasimhan, Medhini Narasimhan’s advisor....
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Brazilian students working at FIU’s Discovery Lab
The Brazilian government is thinking of STEM education and that’s why Brazil is paying for undergraduate college students to spend the summer at the School of Computing and Information Science. Science Without Borders, currently have six Brazilian students working at...
Ricardo Mizos overcomes autism and earns a degree in Information Technology
Ricardo Mizos, 23, has autism but with support from his parents and early therapeutic intervention, he recently graduated with a degree in information technology and plans on returning to in the fall for graduate school. One of the challenges of autism is paying...
Ultimate Software Academy for Computer Science Education @ FIU.
The Ultimate Software Academy for Computer Science Education inspires and cultivates the advancement of a community of K-12 teachers and students who continuously rediscover computing and apply its principles to creatively solve problems and engender innovation. We...
Professor Research to Help Reduce Radiation in CT Scans
Assistant Professor at Florida International University’s School of Computing and Information Sciences, Ruogu Fang is researching how to reduce radiation from these scans by using math and computer technology. In her research, she takes CT scan images acquired...
Introduction to Computer Programming
What if your final exam were to create a video game? Sounds tantalizing, doesn’t it? You don’t have to know anything about programming, and you don’t have to be a computer science major. All you have to do is sign up for COP 1000 Introduction to Computer Programming....
Shonda and Shalisha Witherspoon create a path for women in Tech
Information technology majors, identical twins, Shonda and Shalisha Witherspoon, walked across the graduation stage this morning sharing top honors in their graduating class at Florida International University. With a matching 3.95 GPAs Also, becoming the first...
SCIS Awards Ceremony 2015
The 2015 Award Ceremony recognized Students, Staff, and Faculty on "Outstanding Undergraduate Student", "Excellence in Research", "Best Staff" and more. Congratulate the winners and take a look at the photo gallery to see all the fun. Read more...
Health Avatar Could Become Modern Version of Doctor’s House Call
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qkxEt1b76w This may all seem like something from a far-in-the-future science fiction movie. But a researcher at FIU is close to making it a reality. Professor Christine Lisetti has developed a medical avatar, an interactive...
SCIS Faculty leads research project to authenticate journalists’ cellphone footage
Bogdan Carbunar, a professor in the School of Computing & Information Sciences, used those questions to launch his research into new technology to make fraudulent video easier to detect. The technology is based on something called sensor data, information that...