Frank Hernandez, an SCIS CS PhD student won the $500 Student Innovation Award at the Miami Chamber Event held on Feb. 28th for his app: MTG Doctor. For more information read this Miami Herald post.
Florida International University and the Haas Center at UWF will host a meeting on March 29th with key communications, software, and modeling, simulation, and training (MST) companies to discuss Florida workforce needs. Learn more and RSVP.
FIU’s strong relationships with the IT industry have helped the university secure $3.75 million in additional funding from the SUS – recognition of its success in computer science and information technology education.
Mark Allen Weiss, professor and associate director of Florida International University’s School of Computing & Information Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
Article features FIU Computer Science students developing iOS apps in class COP4655, as senior projects and in the AppDojo community.
On Nov. 9th and 10th FIU SCIS celebrated it's 25th anniversary with a spectacular symposium and open house. For information about the event and visit the Event website for program materials.
The Storm Surge Simulator uses real-time data feeds to help south Florida residents identify public alerts and active shelters. It is a simple way for residents to compare severe storm surges with objects they can relate to.
Dr. Ming Zhao heads the Laboratory for Virtualized Infrastructure, Systems and Applications(VISA). With the help of Cloud VPS the group and him will expand the project for cloud deployments.
SourceFed’s Joe Bereta and Lee Newton attempt to describe Discovery Lab’s Man-Machine cob without using the reference RoboCop. How good are they they? Truly…
FIU faculty, students and alumni are helping the Miami tech community flourish. Bringing a new approach to the way companies, startup, investors and mentors get involved.
Students at FIU engineering department help bring military and police officer vets to the labor force once more. Helping them continue to do what they love without any barriers.
Lieutenant Commander Jeremy Robins, US Navy Reserves helps FIU’s Discovery Lab decipher the recipe for a robot to do everything a human cop could do.
FIU’s Discovery Lab and U.S. navy reserves join by bringing to life robots that will patrol the cities. Being remote controlled by veterans, and changing the way they recover.
First runners-ups were FIU AppDojo students Daniela Cadena(business and Jose Miguel Infante(Computing and Information Sciences) were among sixty participants at the event.
“With telebots, a disabled police officer will be capable of performing many, if not most, of the functions of a normal patrol officer." Read world wide media coverage
Oneironaut Games, the student founded company is being incubated in the Game Developers Guild hosted at the Collaborative Open Innovation Lab in the FIU Engineering Center.
Congratulations to Mr. Mario Consuegra, our Ph.D student was awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship starting from this Fall 2012 for research in the area of "Green Computing". Congratulations also to Professor Giri Narasimhan, Mr. Consuegra's advisor.
1st Place: "Social Ball Handling" by Unboxed Labs: Alina Balean, Jason Clary, Raul F. Hernandez, Ricardo Vasquez, Leo Correa and Jesse Domack. "Best use of Sphero SDK": Game Developers Guild by Lazaro Herrera, Frank Hernandez, and Rene Alfonso. Congrats also to all the FIU participants!
In collaboration with CloudVPS, a leading European cloud provider, Dr. Ming Zhao's VISA research lab's project "dm-cache", a new caching-methodology that works from within the Linux-kernel,now deployed at CloudVPS to provide scalable virtual machine storage. Free Linux VMs are offered to users who are interested in participating the beta test!
Discovery Lab received $50,000 from State Farm to expand their business and technology education programs. Helping the university impact the community with their innovations.
Director of FIU’s High Performance Database Research, says “this is bread and butter for reasearchers like me.” Rishe distinguishes himself by attacking the way people search for sales trends.
The ACM names Mark A. Weiss and Shu-Ching Chen two of the most distinguished members worldwide. For their innovation and economic competitiveness in the computing world.
Miami-Dade County and FIU join to bring valuable and simple information for residents. Helping civilians understand the severity of storms and easily imagine the potential dangers.
Associate Professor Geoffrey Smith, passionate about computer security gives talk on “Min-Entropy as a Resource.” Participating with different researchers from all over the world.
Residents can now search for storm surges via web, thanks to students here at FIU. They have made it easy to pinpoint storm locations and levels.
Using Google Maps students and faculty at FIU have made it possible for residents in Miami-Dade county to prepare before a storm surge occurs. Helping people feel safe, secured and prepared for anything that comes their way.
Florida Keys don’t have to suffer from unnecessary evacuations any longer. FIU’s advancement in technology is helping save time and costs. Allowing the Keys to be better prepared for actual hurricane alerts that require their residents and tourist to evacuate the islands.
Gracias a FIU y el condado de Miami-Dade, residents aqui en el sur de la Flordia van a tener acceso a una erramienta por internet, que les dira la magnitude de inundaciones en sus areas. Haciendolo facil y amigable para el publico obtener informacion.
Residents of South Florida can now visit a website to educate them on the true threats they are vulnerable in case of a hurricane. FIU and the Miami-Dade county are helping run the hurricane season much smoother.
The Storm Surge Simulatorn a simple hurricane severity ranking system. Created by FIU students with the help of the county, this simulator will be helping over half a million residents with evacuation precautions and decisions.
Miami-Dade county’s 800 sq. miles prone to evacuation, will no longer have to fear. Thanks to FIU’s simulator, resident’s will have the option to look for themselves the dangers of the hurricane on the county’s website.
Miami-Dade residents will now have a tool to inform them of the threat of a storm surge. All by the click of a button, residents can visit the county’s website and receive information regarding how hurricanes will impact their location.
Frank Hernandez, an SCIS CS PhD student won the $500 Student Innovation Award at the Miami Chamber Event held on Feb. 28th for his app: MTG Doctor. For more information read this Miami Herald post.
Florida International University and the Haas Center at UWF will host a meeting on March 29th with key communications, software, and modeling, simulation, and training (MST) companies to discuss Florida workforce needs. Learn more and RSVP.
FIU’s strong relationships with the IT industry have helped the university secure $3.75 million in additional funding from the SUS – recognition of its success in computer science and information technology education.
Mark Allen Weiss, professor and associate director of Florida International University’s School of Computing & Information Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
Article features FIU Computer Science students developing iOS apps in class COP4655, as senior projects and in the AppDojo community.
On Nov. 9th and 10th FIU SCIS celebrated it's 25th anniversary with a spectacular symposium and open house. For information about the event and visit the Event website for program materials.
First runners-ups were FIU AppDojo students Daniela Cadena(business and Jose Miguel Infante(Computing and Information Sciences) were among sixty participants at the event.
Oneironaut Games, the student founded company is being incubated in the Game Developers Guild hosted at the Collaborative Open Innovation Lab in the FIU Engineering Center.
Congratulations to Mr. Mario Consuegra, our Ph.D student was awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship starting from this Fall 2012 for research in the area of "Green Computing". Congratulations also to Professor Giri Narasimhan, Mr. Consuegra's advisor.
1st Place: "Social Ball Handling" by Unboxed Labs: Alina Balean, Jason Clary, Raul F. Hernandez, Ricardo Vasquez, Leo Correa and Jesse Domack. "Best use of Sphero SDK": Game Developers Guild by Lazaro Herrera, Frank Hernandez, and Rene Alfonso. Congrats also to all the FIU participants!
Discovery Lab received $50,000 from State Farm to expand their business and technology education programs. Helping the university impact the community with their innovations.
The ACM names Mark A. Weiss and Shu-Ching Chen two of the most distinguished members worldwide. For their innovation and economic competitiveness in the computing world.
Associate Professor Geoffrey Smith, passionate about computer security gives talk on “Min-Entropy as a Resource.” Participating with different researchers from all over the world.
The Storm Surge Simulator uses real-time data feeds to help south Florida residents identify public alerts and active shelters. It is a simple way for residents to compare severe storm surges with objects they can relate to.
FIU faculty, students and alumni are helping the Miami tech community flourish. Bringing a new approach to the way companies, startup, investors and mentors get involved.
“With telebots, a disabled police officer will be capable of performing many, if not most, of the functions of a normal patrol officer." Read world wide media coverage
Director of FIU’s High Performance Database Research, says “this is bread and butter for reasearchers like me.” Rishe distinguishes himself by attacking the way people search for sales trends.
Miami-Dade County and FIU join to bring valuable and simple information for residents. Helping civilians understand the severity of storms and easily imagine the potential dangers.
Residents can now search for storm surges via web, thanks to students here at FIU. They have made it easy to pinpoint storm locations and levels.
Using Google Maps students and faculty at FIU have made it possible for residents in Miami-Dade county to prepare before a storm surge occurs. Helping people feel safe, secured and prepared for anything that comes their way.
Florida Keys don’t have to suffer from unnecessary evacuations any longer. FIU’s advancement in technology is helping save time and costs. Allowing the Keys to be better prepared for actual hurricane alerts that require their residents and tourist to evacuate the islands.
Gracias a FIU y el condado de Miami-Dade, residents aqui en el sur de la Flordia van a tener acceso a una erramienta por internet, que les dira la magnitude de inundaciones en sus areas. Haciendolo facil y amigable para el publico obtener informacion.
Residents of South Florida can now visit a website to educate them on the true threats they are vulnerable in case of a hurricane. FIU and the Miami-Dade county are helping run the hurricane season much smoother.
The Storm Surge Simulatorn a simple hurricane severity ranking system. Created by FIU students with the help of the county, this simulator will be helping over half a million residents with evacuation precautions and decisions.
Miami-Dade county’s 800 sq. miles prone to evacuation, will no longer have to fear. Thanks to FIU’s simulator, resident’s will have the option to look for themselves the dangers of the hurricane on the county’s website.
Miami-Dade residents will now have a tool to inform them of the threat of a storm surge. All by the click of a button, residents can visit the county’s website and receive information regarding how hurricanes will impact their location.
Dr. Ming Zhao heads the Laboratory for Virtualized Infrastructure, Systems and Applications(VISA). With the help of Cloud VPS the group and him will expand the project for cloud deployments.
SourceFed’s Joe Bereta and Lee Newton attempt to describe Discovery Lab’s Man-Machine cob without using the reference RoboCop. How good are they they? Truly…
Students at FIU engineering department help bring military and police officer vets to the labor force once more. Helping them continue to do what they love without any barriers.
Lieutenant Commander Jeremy Robins, US Navy Reserves helps FIU’s Discovery Lab decipher the recipe for a robot to do everything a human cop could do.
FIU’s Discovery Lab and U.S. navy reserves join by bringing to life robots that will patrol the cities. Being remote controlled by veterans, and changing the way they recover.
In collaboration with CloudVPS, a leading European cloud provider, Dr. Ming Zhao's VISA research lab's project "dm-cache", a new caching-methodology that works from within the Linux-kernel,now deployed at CloudVPS to provide scalable virtual machine storage. Free Linux VMs are offered to users who are interested in participating the beta test!