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HackNJIT Attracts Students from Across the Country

Thursday, December 13th, 2018
More than 250 college students recently descended on NJIT for a 24-hour hackathon. The event challenged students to develop a software solution addressing some interesting applications of their choice, in a fast-paced, collaborative, yet competitive environment lasting a mere 24 hours. The hackath...

Computing Dean Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
At NJIT, Craig Gotsman is best known as dean of Ying Wu College of Computing. Within the scientific community, he is better known as the inventor of a number of cutting-edge software technologies for manipulating 3D geometric data, enabling their use in a variety of applications. Many of these techn...

Computer Science Professor's Startup Attracts Millions in Investment From Industry Leaders

Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
A startup company co-founded by a NJIT Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) professor recently received a substantial investment from a startup foundry supported by industry giants including Microsoft and AT&T. Duality Technologies, launched in 2016 by Associate Professor Kurt Rohloff and f...

NJIT's Game Development Program Preps Students for Careers in Diverse Fields

Friday, November 30th, 2018
Housed within the School of Art + Design and Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT’s game development program blends digital design and information technology curriculums to offer students access to faculty and resources that cross disciplinary boundaries and cultivate innova...

NJIT Advances Research, Commerce and Security Through Global Partnerships

Thursday, November 29th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has reached out to giants in the field of cryptography nearly 7,000 miles away to advance blockchain, an evolving digital security technology designed to enable enterprises both large and small to expand transactions across borders, supply chains and diverse...

NJIT Launches A Potent Research Hub: The Institute for Space Weather Sciences

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
Both on land and in space, Earth’s technology-centered civilization is increasingly vulnerable to the powerful bursts of electromagnetic radiation, energetic charged particles and magnetized plasma known as space weather. As the complexity of engineered systems increases, as new technologies are inv...

NJIT Launches Corporate Data Science and Analytics Training Program

Friday, November 16th, 2018
Addressing a critical need in today’s data-driven world, the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at NJIT now offers a training program in Data Science and Analytics, tailored to those developing and using this technology in the corporate world. This fall three YWCC professors delivered a three-cours...

Meet Ying Wu College of Computing's New Department Chairs

Friday, November 2nd, 2018
This fall, NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) welcomed two new department chairs: Frank Biocca, chair of the informatics department, and Baruch Schieber, chair of the computer science department. Biocca and Schieber bring a vast array of experience and knowledge to NJIT. “I am delighted to...

East Coast Meets West Coast at Honors College Virtual Networking Event

Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
On a Wednesday afternoon, in a handful of rooms along the second-floor corridor of Albert Dorman Honors College, NJIT students and alumni networked, albeit not in person. The five participating alumni appeared on screen via Webex from the West Coast for the college’s Virtual Silicon Valley Networkin...

Researchers Create AI Project on Display at 4th Istanbul Design Biennial

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
How well do you know your whereabouts? Better yet, how does one get acquainted with a new location when traveling or relocating? A team of researchers at NJIT has created a place-based artificial intelligence project that helps denizens expand their knowledge of the city of Istanbul. “[AI]stanbul ...
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