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Virtual Reality Helps Train Low-Vision Patients for Real-World Situations

Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
People who have low vision — those who have difficulty seeing even when wearing corrective lens, according to American Foundation for the Blind — may soon be able to learn basic skills such as crossing the street or learning their way around by simulating the experience through a new application of ...

Computing Sophomore Wins Application Developer Pitch Competition

Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
Vrushti Dalal, an Albert Dorman Honors College and computer science student from Sayreville, won the new University Innovation Challenge, a pitch-style competition sponsored by the Guardian Life Insurance Company. For young entrepreneurs, pitch competitions are a popular way to present concepts, ho...

Computer Science Student Wins Business Challenge With Health Care App

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Yashwee J. Kothari, an Albert Dorman Honors College and computer science student from Parsippany, placed first among student competitors at this year’s New Business Model Competition for her innovative work supporting patients living with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The annual competition was host...

NJIT@JerseyCity Celebrates First Graduates of M.S. in Data Science Program

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
NJIT @JerseyCity celebrated the graduation of its first group of master’s students, with four students earning their Master of Science in Data Science at the end of the fall semester this week. While a typical part-time M.S. program takes five semesters to complete, including a full summer semester,...

NJIT Researchers Help Prevent Cyberattacks From Software Supply Chain

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
An open-source tool that cryptographically protects the layout of your software code supply chain is now available from researchers at NJIT, New York University and Purdue University, bolstering the type of weakness exploited in the recent cyberattack on the commercial SolarWinds monitoring applicat...

COVID-19 Vaccines Breathe Life into Research Done 20 Years Ago

Thursday, December 17th, 2020
Research conducted 20 years ago by a former NJIT dean is being put to new use in the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech. Barry Cohen,  who was an associate dean of Ying Wu College of Computing, worked on the algorithm for bioengineering stable messenger RNA (mRNA), a key ingredient of the v...

Free Android Dev Course Will be Taught by NJIT Students in Spring 2021

Monday, December 7th, 2020
This spring semester, NJIT students will have the chance to participate in a free Android mobile app development course backed by major tech companies including Amazon, Cognizant, Facebook, and Microsoft, along with retail giant Walmart. The course is run by CodePath.org, a nonprofit organization t...

NJIT Team Wins Award at International Entrepreneurship Competition

Monday, November 30th, 2020
A team of NJIT entrepreneurs was among those recognized by TiE Global, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship around the world, at the organization’s second annual TiE University Pitch Competition this fall, which included 13 teams representing TiE chapters from India, Isr...

NJIT Software May Help Scientists Communicate About COVID

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
Every complex scientific field needs an ontology, and soon the primary one that covers COVID-19 will be easier for medication and vaccination researchers to understand, using new interpretive methods and software developed by experts at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing. Ontologies are essentiall...

Winners of Virtual HackNJIT Made Music, Chat App, Disease Detector

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Highlanders won the top three prizes at November's HackNJIT competition, with software allowing friends to remotely jam together, video chat with speech translations and even detect pneumonia in chest X-rays. The annual event was virtual this year due to COVID-19, which for a hackathon tends t...