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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...

NJIT Plans New B.S. in Data Science Degree Program in Fall 2021

Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
Responding to the surge in demand for technical skills in data science, NJIT plans to launch in fall 2021 a new Bachelor of Science in Data Science undergraduate degree, co-managed by the Ying Wu College of Computing Department of Computer Science and College of Science and Liberal Arts Department o...

Technology VIPs, Including an Internet Pioneer, Visit NJIT for Inspiration

Friday, October 30th, 2020
TTI/Vanguard, a prestigious organization of technology industry executives who meet a few times each year to study and debate emerging innovations, chose to virtually visit New Jersey Institute of Technology this week for their latest intellectual retreat. The group's members, through exposure to w...

2020 Research Report Highlights Innovative Computing Research from YWCC Faculty

Friday, October 30th, 2020
The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at NJIT has published its 2020 Research Report, showcasing the diverse research activities conducted by Ying Wu faculty over the past year. Research topics span a wide spectrum of interests, from human-computer interaction to cybersecurity, data science and v...

NJIT Honors Exceptional Donors at Launch of the Colton Society

Thursday, October 29th, 2020
NJIT’s inaugural inductees into its new Colton Society represent an array of disciplines, including engineering, architecture, finance, education and technology. Each, however, shares something remarkable in common: lifetime contributions to the university that exceed half a million dollars. In tri...

Researching the Effects of Online Misinformation and Realities of the Coronavirus

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
Assistant Professor Cody Buntain, NJIT's expert on the science of understanding social media, is turning his trained eyes to the connections between online misinformation and public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Using software that he co-developed in 2017 with University of Waterloo ...

NJIT Intern for Cisco Systems Left Her Mark in Silicon Valley, Virtually

Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Aarati Srikumar, a junior computer science major from Edison and honors student at NJIT, made the best of her summer internship with networking giant Cisco Systems despite the pandemic changing her plans to experience Silicon Valley in person. Cisco adjusted their program to be fully remote, giving...

GirlHacks Went Virtual, Projects Focused on COVID-19 and Social Justice

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
GirlHacks went virtual this year, with extra-diverse participation and several healthcare-oriented projects, all due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event, which was hosted Oct. 10-11 by NJIT's Women in Computing Society, had almost 80 entrants spanning 28 projects from colleges and even high schools...

New Admissions Option Will Increase Honors Student Enrollment

Friday, October 16th, 2020
Albert Dorman Honors College welcomed more than 70 additional students this year as part of a new program called Dean's Scholars, designed to allow for a more robust honors education across campus. The program admits scholars from the College of Science and Liberal Arts, Hillier College of Architec...