Jonathan Fields/Staff Writer Stacked pizza boxes, paper plates, energy drinks and two-liter bottles of Mountain Dew are the mainstays which are typically found at weekend-long software engineering challenges known as “hackathons.” These events have grown increasingly popular in recent years due to their atmosphere of camaraderie and friendly competition in order to innovate and solve […]
Christopher Ramirez/Staff Writer Future professional game developers and casual beginners of developing joined the biggest coordinated event of game developing at the Global Game Jam. The Global Game Jam is an annual event, hosted by FIU’s School of Computing and Information Sciences and Upsilon Pi Epsilon that gives students a chance to better their tech […]
By Nicole Stone/Assistant News Director Considering that we hold tiny computers that fit in the palm of our hands and our pockets, technology has progressed in leaps and bounds from the physical media we once heavily relied on according to Cesar Villa Garcia, president of Upsilon Pi Epsilon. “Technology is omnipresent. It’s everywhere nowadays… […]
