On May 3rd, 2012, Dr. Iyengar and Nulogix were awarded third prize in the 2012 Innovation 2 Industry (i2i) Florida competition. This competition, organized and hosted by the Enterprise Charlotte Economic Council, recognizes Nulogix for the invention of a device with an innovative and patented technology that enables a person to see changes in intra ocular pressure by observing their eye in a mirror. The purpose of this invention is to ensure that glaucoma's silent damage is detected as early as possible,well ahead of any damage.
On April 10th, 2012, State Farm awarded FIU's Discovery Lab lead by Dr. Ram Iyengar, SCIS Director and Ryder Professor, a donation of $50,000 to further the lab's mission to inspire student innovation. State Farm has designated FIU as one of 20 Universities in the Nation where they recruit exclusively. This grant award was one of only four such grants awarded in the area of IT Systems this year by State Farm.
The Discovery Lab is aimed at developing products for the marketplace. The laboratory provides students with the hands-on experiences they need to solve real-world challenges, develops student-led research opportunities, fosters students’ entrepreneurial skills, and trains a new generation of IT professionals
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Multi University Research and Training in Protection of Critical Information Infrastructures
The project's selected Faculty/Student Scholar pairs will participate in a series of development activities that include summer workshops, national lab/research center visits, and academic year mini-grants.
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"Dr. Iyengar... has been working to attract
the best and brightest students and faculty
in an effort to break into the country’s
top 30 research institution."
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How does it feel to spend 48hrs programming non-stop to build computer games as part of the 2012 Global Game Jam (GGJ)? Just ask FIU Computer Science PhD Student, Frank Hernandez, Organizer of the GGJ Miami site and the Game Developers Guild (www.gamedevelopersguild.com) which was hosted at FIU's Collaborative Open Innovation Lab (coil.fiu.edu) January 27-29th. "It was very exciting to see our student's creativity and programming talent coming together to build these games". The end result, four exhausted programming teams, four intriguing PC games, many with original music and graphics, which explored the game jam theme, a serpent drawn in the shape of a circle biting it's tail. Try the games yourself by downloading the software at the GGJ2012 Miami site located here
The SCIS Programming Team and the ACM Club held a programming competition last Saturday, Feb 4, and we are happy to announce the winners:
| 1. Leo Shao | 2. Jorge Cabrera | 3. Jesse Domack |
A $75 prize was awarded for First Place, courtesy of Ultimate Software. Eleven competitors worked on six problems for four hours. Each solution program had to be accepted by the online UVA site. Many thanks to Alexis Jefferson, Jesus Ramos, and Daniel Rodriguez, who contributed problem solutions and assistance with scoring! Try solving the six problems here. If you are able to solve at least two, perhaps you should consider joining our training sessions! We meet every Thursday 3:30-4:45pm, in room ECS 141. We will hold a second competition during March.
Information Technology major April Perry, who is also captain of the FIU women’s soccer team, has earned a spot on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-South Region team as a second team member. The award caps off a stellar season for Perry who was the only FIU player to be named as a first team All-Sun Belt Conference performer.
Perry led the FIU women’s soccer team to its second ever Sunbelt Conference Tournament Championship and first NCAA Tournament appearance in 18 years.
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LA Grid is an international multi-disciplinary research community and virtual computing grid enabling institutions and industry to extend beyond their individual reach.
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The Business Continuity Information Network (BCIN, pronounced "bee-kin") is a web-based service where local businesses, county emergency management, and organizations that assist businesses can gather to share critical information and support continuity efforts before, during and after a disaster.
PIRE prepares you to compete in the Global Information Technology Marketplace. SCIS students selected by the PIRE program will become part of a prestigious international research network focusing on using cyberinfrastructure to solve challenging societal problems while training a generation of globally-oriented IT professionals who will become leaders in industry and academia.
The SCIS advisors will help you with any questions you have about the Computer Science degree program, Information Technology programs (Undergraduates) and advise which courses would be best to take.
The advisors and their schedule are listed on the advising page for the current semester.
No appointments are necessary, it is a walk-in basis.
Congratulations to our faculty members for their prestigious accomplishments:
Our world class faculty are pursuing a diverse collection of research opportunities whose goals are the advancement of the computer science field of study, IT industry collaboration including technology transfer, and the pursuit of important societal problems faced by our many public and private sector partners. To review a list of our research centers, labs and activities of our research community please see our Research page.
The School of Computing and Information Sciences will have a faculty meeting to discuss faculty hiring of candidates on the following dates at 10am in ECS 349. Please mark your calendar and all faculty members are strongly encouraged to attend!
The School of Computing and Information Sciences is recruiting an undergraduate advisor. More details»
The School of Computing and Information Sciences seeks exceptionally qualified candidates for multiple tenure-track and tenured faculty positions at all levels. Please read the job posting for more details.
The College of Engineering and Computing announces the appointment of Professor S. Sitharama Iyengar, Roy Paul Daniels Professor, Chairman of Computer Science, and Director of Robotics Research Laboratory at the Louisiana State University as the Ryder Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences "We are delighted to have such a world renowned leader in Computer Science join FIU's Worlds Ahead team at the College," said Amir Mirmiran, Dean of Engineering and Computing, "as Dr. Iyengar plans to take the School of Computing and Information Sciences to the next level." Read more.
Invited Lecture Series
Local Computation Algorithms
Ning Xie
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Graduate Student Seminar
McPatom: A Predictive Analysis Tool for Atomicity Violation using Model Checking
Reng Zeng
Florida International University
Invited Lecture Series
A Systematic Approach for Migrating Enterprise Networks
Xin Sun
Purdue University
Invited Lecture Series
Online Social Networking and Data Swarming -- Information Sharing in the Future Internet
Honggang Zhang
Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Graduate Student Seminar
Integration VL (Virtual Lab) of FIU and VCL (Virtual Computing lab) of NCSU
Mani Shafaatdoost
Florida International University
Invited Lecture Series
Applying Modelling and Simulation for Development and Testing of Embedded Systems
Gabriel A. Wainer
Carleton University
