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Keeping Fitbit safe from hackers and cheaters with FitLock

Keeping Fitbit safe from hackers and cheaters with FitLock

The GigaOM article explores how FIU SCIS Asst. Prof. Dr. Bogdan Carbunar and his team "has shown that Fitbits can be subject to attacks including denial of service, injection, and data capture." The team developed FitLock a tool to address many of the...

SCIS Student wins 2013 McKnight Doctoral Fellowship

SCIS Student wins 2013 McKnight Doctoral Fellowship

Gregory Jean-Baptiste, a recent FIU SCIS Computer Science Bachelors graduate won the Fellowship award which provides an annual stipend and tuition support for up to five years. We congratulate Gregory as he continues his graduate studies with FIU SCIS.   ...

FIU Tapestry Workshop

FIU Tapestry Workshop

The goals of the NSF funded high school instructor workshop to attract more and diverse students into your high school Computer Science classes by sharing strategies, research-based practices, and field-tested...

FIU STEM Teachers Workshop

SCIS hosted the second annual FIU STEM Teachers Workshop in June 2013. The workshop, supported by a grant from Ultimate Software and attended by high school teachers from Broward and Miami-Dade counties, introduced computational thinking concepts, object-oriented...

SCIS hosted the Computer Science for High School

SCIS hosted the Computer Science for High School, a Google sponsored, three-day hands-on workshop for High School educators to promote computer science and computational thinking in high school curriculum. Topics include Embedded Systems and Robotics, Raspberry Pi...

Coderdojo Pembroke Pines

Coderdojo Pembroke Pines

Coderdojo Pembroke Pines, FIU sponsors Coderdojo, an international, coding club for kids. FIU students and staff volunteer their time to mentor students from 8-17 years of age in programming languages and robots like Scratch, Lego Mindstorms, and Sphero. The club...