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College of Computing Creates New Department of Data Science

Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Building on existing academic and research strengths, NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing has created a new Department of Data Science where students will learn the deep underlying technologies driving this field and its broad spectrum of applications. The college has taken significant st...

Design Professor Embraces AI to Quantify Accessibility of Buildings

Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but walkability could be evaluated by algorithms, according to new research from an unconventional professor in NJIT's Hillier College of Architecture and Design. "Most people assume that architects have some tool to visualize or analyze how people will use the...

Computing Professor Develops Algorithms to Design Faster Computer Circuits

Friday, May 28th, 2021
Research conducted by Ioannis Koutis, associate professor of computer science at NJIT, may change how manufacturers think about logic circuit design and increasing circuit processing speeds compared to state-of-the-art methods. When a manufacturer designs a logic circuit, it is necessary, particula...

NJIT and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra To Bring Classical Music into the Digital Age

Thursday, May 27th, 2021
Music lovers know that there is nothing like a live performance, but the COVID-19 pandemic inspired Newark's New Jersey Symphony Orchestra to challenge Ying Wu College of Computing faculty and students to investigate better ways to present virtual concerts using mixed-reality technology. The orches...

NJIT, Israeli Researchers Use AI and Computer Vision to Predict Space Weather

Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
It's not your typical five-day forecast, as researchers with the Institute for Future Technologies, a joint venture of NJIT and Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, are improving solar weather prediction by adding data visualization techniques to their existing artificial intelligence method...

Girls Who Code Alum DeMatos Completes NJIT Degree, Lands Job at Facebook

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
Just about everyone in college has a Facebook account, uses their Instagram service, or knows someone who does, but Ying Wu College of Computing new graduate Catarina DeMatos is going to work there. DeMatos, of Chatham, first interned at Facebook as a rising junior in summer 2019, so she had an inr...

College of Computing Continues to Deliver Customized Corporate Training

Monday, May 24th, 2021
When Fusion Recruiting Labs, a tech company that builds employment tools to help customers accelerate hiring processes and increase the efficiency of HR recruitment campaigns, wanted to help their 77 staff members realize maximum benefit from its database systems, they contacted the Ying Wu College ...

NJIT Graduates 3,000 Who Excelled Despite COVID-19 Pandemic

Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology formally graduated more than 3,000 students today, in a hybrid in-person and virtual ceremony due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Kimberly Bryant, founder and CEO of Black Girls Code, delivered this year’s commencement address. Black Girls Code is a non-profit...

Missing the NJIT Campus? Engineering Student Made One in Minecraft

Monday, May 3rd, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology has a new campus, but you can only go there by computer because civil engineering major Pawel Sierhej built it entirely in Minecraft. Sierhej, a junior who commutes from Linden, said he was inspired to build the virtual campus because he missed being at the real o...

NJIT ACM Chapter Hosts JerseyCTF Cybersecurity Competition

Friday, April 30th, 2021
NJIT's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery hosted its first cybersecurity competition last month, with one of its own members on the winning team among more than 600 participants from 26 countries. The event, called JerseyCTF, was a capture-the-flag event where entrants test ...
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