Traveling all the way to Princeton, New Jersey to participate in Hack Princeton Fall 2018, FIU students MJ Ramos and David Castaneda spent 36 hours hacking away to represent FIU at one of this seasons most prestigious hackathon ! Inspired
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In this era of rapid technological advancement, new and promising technologies appear seemingly overnight. Upsilon Pi Epsilon’s SparkDev program aims to get students of all skill levels experienced with these new technologies with a nine-week program designed to allow students
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The brand-new Telemundo Center has officially been inaugurated with its very first official hackathon! This past weekend of November 2nd, Comcast NBCUniversal held a hackathon to encourage students to develop their skills, network, and compete for a $10,000 grand prize!
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Yesterday, the Academy of CS Education and the School of Computing andInformation Sciences hosted the ACM Southeastern Regional ProgrammingCompetition. We had 17 teams competing on the FIU campus in PG 116. Atotal of about 105 teams competed overall from four
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BC hackathon was a great experience. We found it through the hackathon.com website since it is not yet an MLH event. Since our team consisted of MangoHacks and ShellHacks organizers we were able to give the BC organizers some tips
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SCIS graduate student, Mireya Jurado, co-wrote “The Looming Threat of China- An Analysis of Chinese Influence on Bitcoin” which is getting attention by a few major tech media outlets. The paper states that China has both “mature capabilities” and “strong motives” to
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“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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