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Samuel Carlos Wins Boren Scholarship Award to Study in Taiwan

Friday, December 3rd, 2021
The world is at Samuel Carlos’ fingertips. Since coming NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College out of high school with an associates degree in math and computer science, he’s interned at Amazon, Google, and Facebook. He’s since added a third major - history with a focus on the history of computer scien...

New Computer Science Elective Examines the History of Computing

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
A new course about the history of information systems will be offered by Ying Wu College of Computing this spring, where students will learn about everything from calculation methods of ancient and medieval times, through early visions of mechanical computer architecture in the Industrial Age, strai...

Freshman Wins Top Prize at HackNJIT, Zoo Theme Leads to Productive Apps

Monday, November 22nd, 2021
Students who developed software for game animation, package delivery, lecture transcription and wildlife sightings were all winners at HackNJIT this month. The event was almost back to normal this year, being in-person for NJIT students — complete with midnight snacks and impromptu 1:00 a.m. karaok...

Outside of Class, Cybersecurity Students Learn to Think Like the Enemy

Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
A group of NJIT students studying cybersecurity outside the classroom learned that it's educational to pretend to be the bad guys, in order to design stronger defenses against them. SIGMAL — Special Interest Group for Malware — is a section born last year within NJIT's chapter of the Association fo...

U.S. National Security Agency Recognizes NJIT Cyber Defense Education

Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
NJIT's Cybersecurity Research Center recently earned a National Center of Academic Excellence designation, recognizing the university's ability to train students in defending high-value computer networks. This designation, determined by the U.S. National Security Agency, covers 2021-2026 and indica...

Computing College to Offer Financial Need Scholarships From NSF Grant

Friday, November 5th, 2021
Young adults who may leave college because of the expense may soon have a helping hand, as NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing is now offering 12 annual scholarships of $10,000 for each of the next three years to high-performing students in financial need. The funds come from a $1.38 million Nation...

Streaming Data Analytics Has New Method Planned by NJIT, USC, Harvard

Monday, November 1st, 2021
E-commerce sites, military planners and streaming media providers all want to analyze multiple sources of live data as quickly as possible, a holy grail of data science which is about to become possible through new software called StreamWare, from researchers at Harvard University, New Jersey Instit...

NJIT a 'Best Global University' in US News & World Report Ranking

Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is among the Best Global Universities identified by U.S. News and World Report in its eighth edition of the annual ranking. Only 271 U.S. universities made the 2022 list, which spans 91 countries in six continents. Globally, NJIT ranked in the top half of som...

NJIT STEM Leadership Forum Inspires Educators to Bring 'Cutting-Edge STEM' into Classrooms

Friday, October 22nd, 2021
With students back in classrooms this fall, educators and superintendents across New Jersey were once again welcomed back to NJIT’s campus to network and discuss fresh ways they can enrich hands-on STEM learning in their schools at the university’s fifth annual STEM School Leadership Forum — “B...

NJIT's Basu Roy Integrates Humans and Computers to Optimize Tasks and Learn Facts

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
In the early days of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, researchers scrambled to decipher the novel virus — its transmission pathways, its effects on the body, its vulnerabilities. Senjuti Basu Roy, a computer scientist, wondered in turn how lay people absorbed the reams of emerging information they recei...
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