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 countyÌÄå¢Ì¢Û_åÂÌ¢Û_å¢s website and receive information regarding how hurricanes will impact their location. Read...
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FIU Helps Storm Surge Preparation, Not Restoration
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. Read more...
Cloud VPS Support FIU on VISA
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. Read more...
FIU’s Hybrid Man-Machine Cops
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. Read more...
FIU Students Win First Runners-up at Hack The Bass
First runners-up were FIU AppDojo students Daniela Cadena(business and Jose Miguel Infante(Computing and Information Sciences) were among sixty participants at the event. It is inspiring to witness firsthand the engagement of our local tech community in what I see as...
Discovery Lab Telebots Could Help Disabled Veterans
With telebots, a disabled police officer will be capable of performing many, if not most, of the functions of a normal patrol officer.According to the Veterans Administration, there are more than 181,000 Afghanistan and Iraq War veterans collecting disability benefits...
SCIS Student awarded Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
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...
Cloud Computing Research Impact
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...
FIU Student Startup using KickStarter to bootstrap game development
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. Kickstarter is the largest of dozens of sites, including Peerbackers.com based in Palm Beach...
FIU Alumni and Students win at Miami AT&T Mobile App Hackathon
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...