Innovation in cooperation

Science fascinates us every day with amazing innovations that facilitate our life, but the problems that are facing us, as a humankind, and our big home earth are becoming tougher and severer, from climate change to gender parity etc… In digital age, where computers and programming might be the new force of power that shapes…

Designed in California for the Universe.

This summer I had the privilege of working as a Software Engineering Intern for one of the most prominent technology companies in the world. And since we are talking about prominent technology company, we definitely mean California, precisely the Silicon Valley. The beautiful the weather is in California, the nature, trees, landscape reminded me of…

I taught iOS Programming for teenagers, and it was the best experience ever!

I have never thought of teaching as a profession my entire life, teaching just never appealed to me; school teachers and university professors were also not my favorite people to hang around with. This summer; like many Computer Science students, and while I was looking for a job or an internship so I can acquire…

Open Data… Open Innovation

My interest in data science and open data specifically comes from the open data movement. In this movement, collaborators set a goal to standardize and provide data to everyone. People can use this data to extract knowledge for their benefits and some decide to share their models and results for the benefit of other societies….

From the Mississippi Delta to Illinois Tech: A New Outlook on the World Emerges

We are pleased to introduce and share with you the words of Anthony Hicks, a fellow classmate at Illinois Tech from the Mississippi Delta in the US; Anthony arrived with us in Fall 2012 along with many of us from Syria as a computer science major, an area of interest for many of us. As…

Impact of Hackathons

Hackathon; probably you have heard this word from a friend or read it on a Facebook page. But have you ever wondered what does it mean or where does it come from? If you try to look it up in a dictionary or on an online translator you may not get a precise translation. So,…

From an Intern to a Shareholder – Highlights of My Last Internship

It was a summer day in August when I walked into that start-up for an interview to do a summer internship. That was after 4 phone interviews they conducted with me. When entering the door, the first desk to the right had a sign on it hanged to the computer screen of that employee, turned out t…

Design, Computer Science & making a difference

Few weeks ago, I read about a competition for designing a shirt to be used in the I-fest (International fest) event in school, and luckily my design was chosen to be printed on shirts. This made me so happy, not only because I won, but because I was able to make a difference in people’s…

Passions worth pursuing

NSString, Serial Queue, NSArray, XML Parsing, Multithreading…….. a lot of programmers would be tempted to write a blog post like this a mumbo jumbo of words that a few of people understand. They might not just be tempted but actually enjoy using the lingo they use in their everyday coding That’s totally wrong. In this…