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NJIT Ranked Best Public School in Northeast for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is the top public university in the Northeast for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. The improvement reflects NJIT's and the Martin Tuchman School of Management's dedicated focus on the importa...

Experts at NJIT's Data Science Summit Propose New Paths in Hardware and AI

Monday, November 14th, 2022
New kinds of unconventional computer hardware, along with new ways of considering software responsibility, are both necessary if the next wave of data science will do anything more useful for the world than increase corporate profits. Such were two key messages expressed by experts from IBM and Goo...

Scholarship-winning Student Veterans Talk Serving in the Military and Coming to NJIT

Friday, November 11th, 2022
Three student veterans at NJIT were among the first to be awarded a new scholarship administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship, named for the long-serving Massachusetts congresswoman and steadfast advocate for veterans, provides up to n...

HackNJIT, Back From Online Hiatus, Brings Creative Apps and Gadgets

Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Camping isn't the first hobby you associate with an urban campus, but the outdoors theme was a hit at HackNJIT this month, held fully in-person for the first time since 2019 because of the COVID pandemic. Approximately 200 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and from neighbors such as...

DOE Grant Will Recalibrate Current Climate Change Data

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
Professors Aritra Dasgupta and Chase Wu from the Department of Data Science in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing are developing software to take more advantage of simulation data used to study climate science through a $145,972 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The project aims to im...

NJIT Experts in Augmented Reality Help Train Caretakers for the Elderly

Thursday, October 27th, 2022
With the world's population of geriatric patients increasing faster than enough caretakers can be trained for the difficult job, NJIT Assistant Professor of Informatics Salam Daher thinks augmented reality technology may help close the gap. Daher and her students are prototyping a digital model of ...

Murray Turoff: A Pioneer of Instant Messaging

Thursday, October 20th, 2022
Long before social networks, instant messengers, web forums, Internet Relay Chat, AOL, Compuserve, and dial-up bulletin board systems, there was EIES – Electronic Information Exchange System, pronounced like the word eyes.  Developed by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Murray Turoff back in 19...

Students Will Design Hacking Apps, Hardware Exploits to Gain Experience

Thursday, October 6th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology students are forming a pair of computer security groups this semester, with the mutual goal of preparing students to hone their skills beyond the classroom. One group is NICC — NJIT Information and Cybersecurity Club — and the other is the Association for Computin...

Ying Wu College of Computing Matches Record Enrollment with 17 New Instructors for Fall 2022

Monday, October 3rd, 2022
Six new assistant professors have been appointed to the faculty of Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) for the 2022-2023 academic year. They are joined by 11 professors of practice, university lecturers and senior university lecturers who will support the College’s ever-growing enrollment numbers.&n...

NJIT, Ben-Gurion University Unveil Home of Institute for Future Technologies

Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology and Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev officially opened a research center, the Institute for Future Technologies, located in the NJIT @JerseyCity satellite location. Although the Institute and research there began last year, the opening ceremony only hap...