“Virtual Roll Call” has been awarded the 2018 IACP/Security Industry Association Michael Shanahan Leadership in Public/Private Cooperation Award and has identified them as part of an elite group of leaders in the field of Public/Private Cooperation. This award will be
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Kerlin Michel interned at Amazon from February to July 2018 as a software engineer, under Amazon Web Services (AWS) and worked on the AppSync Service. The project Kerlin worked on was a backend-as-a-service. It was a way for users to
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The FIU team from Distributed Multimedia Information Systems (DMIS) Laboratory at the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) won the third place (third highest score) in the 2018 TRECVID Ad-hoc Video Search (AVS) competition (combining both fully-automated and manually-assisted
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Shell Hacks, the FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) and Microsoft cosponsored fall hackathon took the University by storm on Friday, September 14, when more than 700 university students from around the world descended
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On Saturday, Sept. 8th, Maria ‘Cristy’ Charters and 26 of the girls that are generously being sponsored by School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) to attend the Grace Hopper Conference in Houston this year. Attended a meeting at FIU’s
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Sheila Alemany is an undergraduate student at the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), majoring in Computer Science and Math and will be graduating in Spring 2019. In the past, Sheila has been hired for on-campus jobs as Academic
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SCIS students, Shonda and Shalisha Witherspoon graduated with master’s in information technology with a concentration in software engineering. Just two years ago, the twins received their bachelor’s degree becoming the first members of their family to graduate college. While taking
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A solar and electric-powered trolley, a transfer system that moves patients from one hospital bed to another, and a virtual roll call for police officers … what do all these have in common? They were all senior design projects conceptualized
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Leandro Gonzalez and Luis Miguel Herrnsdorf showcased their project in the CEC Senior Design Project, on building a web app to help cities track and analyze data captured by wireless sensors. Stop Ocean Pollution (SOP) Technologies’ Smart Stormwater system
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This year SCIS Senior Project Showcase will collaborate with College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) to host its 1st Annual Senior Design Project Showcase event on April 20th, 2018 at the FIU Ocean Bank Convocation Center (FIU Arena). The inaugural event will bring
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Empowering Startup Communities and Supporting Local Entrepreneurship Initiatives in Miami and South Florida Mohsen Taheri has been awarded the UGS Provost Award for Graduate Student Engagement at the Provost Awards Recognition Reception, which took place during the Graduate Student Appreciation
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We are happy to report that three of our Ph.D. students, Tauhidul Alam, Samia Tasnim, and Georges Kamhoua Kamto, were awarded the University Graduate School’s Dissertation Year Fellowship. Thank you for nominating your students and offering your support!