The FIU CIS Programming Team won third place (out of 26 colleges) in the software competition at the IEEE SoutheastCon conference in Fort Lauderdale on April 11th, 2015. The winning team pictured above is (from left to right) Alan Nieto, Giuseppe Vietri Ottati, and...
Worlds Ahead - Fausto Fleites Fausto Fleites was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. Taught himself how to write computer programs. Studied Computer Science at Havana University. In 2004, left Cuba. Despite language challenges, Fausto graduated with a 3.99 GPA. Technical...
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...
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...
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...
Hien Nguyen, a recent CIS graduate and currently a PhD student in our department, was one of this year's winners in FIU's Howard J. Leonhardt New Venture Challenge. The award ceremony took place Thursday May 12, 2005 at Parrot Jungle. A description of the contest can...
David Kaiser Congratulations to David M. Kaiser for a second place finish at the first annual General Game Playing Competition held at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference (AAAI-05) in Pittsburgh!
This competition is open for all our undergraduate students. It requires designing a website covering some specific aspect of the history of computing. Quality and innovation in both, content as well as web design, are the most important criteria for the judges. Top...
