The ACM names Mark A. Weiss and Shu-Ching Chen two of the most distinguished members worldwide. For their innovation and economic competitiveness in the computing world. Read more here: https://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2011/distinguished-2011
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State Farm’s Lending Hand
Discovery Lab received $50,000 from State Farm to expand their business and technology education programs. Helping the university impact the community with their innovations. “We work long hours, but we are working on exciting projects and collaborating with other...
One Step Closer to the Perfect Military Officer.
Thanks to Jeremy Robins’, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves, IHMC (a major grant-funded robotics institute) has agreed to loan FIU two robots built for its Urban Warrior Robot program, a $2 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)...
Discovery Lab Impacting the Work Force
Students at FIU engineering department help bring military and police officer vets to the labor force once more. Helping them continue to do what they love without any barriers. Read more here: https://mashable.com/2012/09/29/fiu-robocops-robots/
Cloud VPS Support FIU on VISA
Dr. Ming Zhao heads the Laboratory for Virtualized Infrastructure, Systems and Applications(VISA). With the help of Cloud VPS the group and him will expand the project for cloud deployments. Read more...
Big No No to RoboCop
SourceFedÌÄå¢Ì¢Û_åÂÌ¢Û_å¢s Joe Bereta and Lee Newton attempt to describe Discovery LabÌÄå¢Ì¢Û_åÂÌ¢Û_å¢s Man-Machine cob without using the reference RoboCop. How good are they they? TrulyÌÄå¢Ì¢Û_åÂÌâå_ Read more...
No More Unnecessary Evacuations
Miami-Dade residents will now have a tool to inform them of the threat of a storm surge. All by the click of a button, residents can visit the countyÌÄå¢Ì¢Û_åÂÌ¢Û_å¢s website and receive information regarding how hurricanes will impact their location. Read...
Emergency Management Storm Surge Simulator
Miami-Dade countyÌÄå¢Ì¢Û_åÂÌ¢Û_å¢s 800 sq. miles prone to evacuation, will no longer have to fear. Thanks to FIUÌÄå¢Ì¢Û_åÂÌ¢Û_å¢s simulator, residentÌÄå¢Ì¢Û_åÂÌ¢Û_å¢s will have the option to look for themselves the dangers of the hurricane on the...
The Ideal Storm Tracker
The Storm Surge Simulator uses real-time data feeds to help south Florida residents identify public alerts and active shelters. It is a simple way for residents to compare severe storm surges with objects they can relate to. Read more...
The S.S.S.
The Storm Surge Simulatorn a simple hurricane severity ranking system. Created by FIU students with the help of the county, this simulator will be helping over half a million residents with evacuation precautions and decisions. Read more...