Girls Who Code, the national nonprofit working to close the gender gap in technology, kicked off its 2017 Summer Immersion Program today in Miami in partnership with Citrix and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Florida International University and the Idea...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRG4BM_tC-k Citrix has sponsored Girls Who Code, a summer immersion program dedicated to teaching 19 female high school students about the fields of technology and engineering. We brought some of our brightest female Citrix engineers to...
Deya M. Banisakher, a Ph.D. Candidate at FIU's School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), have won the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS) Award for Best Poster, "A Supervised Classification Approach to...
The School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) highlights some of the Ph.D. students in Computer Science who have received internship opportunities at important and renowned companies this Summer: Deya Banisakher Deya Banisakher is a Ph.D. candidate at SCIS...
One of the main goals in the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) is to help its computer science (CS) and information technology (IT) students be prepared to enter the workforce when they graduate. Apart from exposing its student body to student...
Alastair Paragas, SCIS student completing his Computer Science degree, will intern at CERN, located in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the home of the hadron collider where the Higgs-Boson particle was discovered. Another great development at CERN was the creation of the...
The Girls Who Code club, a two-hour weekly meeting that occurs every Tuesday on FIU’s MMC TechStation. The program started during the Fall 2016 semester and now offers the second club this spring to middle school students. The objective is to teach the girls coding,...
NBC 6 News spoke with Dr. Iyengar on how the FCC can help end cell phone use in prisons. “When the FCC gets into the larger picture it certainly can bring a robust system of jamming.” “Now if the inmate is a very smart person and he's able to circumvent that, then...
FIU STARS: Extrava-Java-Ganza has come to its end on Sunday evening but not without a few winners. With the grand prize being RC Quadcopter Drone the competition was fierce. Let congratulate the following winners. 1st Place Grand Prize - Juan Grajales Winning...
In April, FIU held the Book Authors' Recognition Reception and presented awards to the faculty with books that are highly regarded in their industry. SCIS own Dr. Iyengar was awarded for his book "Smart Grids: Security and Privacy Issues". The book provides the...
