Labiba Jahan accepting GSAW Award Florida International University Graduate Student Appreciation Week recognizes the contributions, impact, and value of graduate and professional students on campuses throughout the United States. The 2019 GSAW will include the...
Student Highlight
Intern at Microsoft as a Software Engineer
Octavio Avila-Cardet, a Computer Science major, from Cuba. Interned for Microsoft as a software engineer. I worked in the core services department where internal tools and software that will be used by other Microsoft employees are developed. My team was responsible...
Cesar Villa-Garcia, #FIUSCIS Student, Named FIU Worlds Ahead Graduate
Worlds Ahead graduates are nominated by faculty members to be personally honored during their commencement ceremony. These graduates exhibit outstanding perseverance, intelligence, personal strength, and fully demonstrate and embrace what it means to be Worlds Ahead....
Fall 2018 – CEC Senior Design Project Showcase
The College of Engineering and Computing hosted the Fall 2018 Senior Design Project Showcase. 77 SCIS students took part in demonstrating their newly acquired skills in software and hardware development. All of the #FIUSCIS students were judged by industry...
FIU at Princeton
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 from working with kids with...
SparkDev Demos Fall 2018 Projects
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...
FIU Places in NBC Hackathon
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...
ACM Southeastern Regional Programming Competition – Fall 2019
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 sites...
FIU at BC Hackathon
Carlos Lahrssen, Andres Valdes, Angelo Saraceno, MJ Ramos, David Castaneda 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...
SCIS Grad Student paper on An Analysis of Chinese Influence on Bitcoin
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...