From improving your rehab to rehabbing your nightlife – these are just some of the problems that about 550 students tried to solve at the recent MangoHacks hosted at FIU’s School of Computing & Information Sciences‘ PG6 Tech Station. Participants in FIU’s largest...
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Experience Organizing MangoHacks 18′
Author: Maria-Jose Ramos | Medium On multiple occasions, MangoHacks has been described to me as the most fun hackathon they have ever been to. As an organizer, that is what we sacrifice our sleep for. That is why we spend countless hours discussing which color looks...
SCIS student – Got my first job at Google!
Krista Shuckerow, B.S in Statistics, second major – Economics; minor in Computer Science has accepted her first job at Google. As a sophomore, I went to my first hackathon, MangoHacks, at FIU in spring of 2016. I walked in, joined a team, built a project and demoed...
Dr. Mark A. Finlayson on Artificial Intelligence: convenience or threat?
Another of the most promising applications refers to the time you spend driving to your job and back home. The next time Waze helps you get out of unbearable traffic on US1 or another of the congested highways of South Florida think that artificial intelligence played...
Welcome to MangoHacks 2018
MangoHacks is a place for discovery. It's a 36-hour hackathon that encourages learning, collaboration, growth, innovation, and fun. We will welcome 350+ students from Florida and across the country with amazing mentors, and wonderful sponsors to create amazing things....
FIU I-CAVE featured on Mechdyne
Integrated Computer Augmented Virtual Environment (I-CAVE) has a feature case study on Mechdyne, partners to create new innovations to improve collaboration and research, resolve workflow inefficiencies, and fill technology gaps. FIU I-CAVE is an instructional and...
Accelerate your career with a Masters Degree in Data Science
Data Science has become a hot career option for the past few years and is trending to grow in demand and salary for years to come. The data-driven marketplace has been growing its demand for people capable of generating insights and making accurate predictions, using...
Dr. S. S. Iyengar has been selected to receive the Distinguished Engineering Educator Award.
SCIS is honored to announce that Dr. S. S. Iyengar, Ryder Professor & Director, has been selected by the Engineers Council Honors and Awards Committee, representing engineering societies from across the United States, to receive the “Distinguished Engineering...
Global Game Jam 2018
Global Game Jam is the world's largest game creation event taking place around the world simultaneously, but at different physical locations. A weekend long 48 hour event where you experiment, create and develop games or skills. Think of it as a hackathon focused on...
Gulliver Prep School visit to Tech Station
Gulliver Prep School is a private co-educational school right here in Miami. The Computer Science department gave 7 outstanding students the opportunity to present their app at FIU SCIS. Graduate and Undergraduates students welcomed them to FIU and gave the students...