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NJIT Math Prof. Shang Seeks Proof For Why Machine Learning Works

Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Programmers can tell you what machine learning does and how it works, but they can't really prove why it works. Enter the mathematicians.

Data Science Expert Bader Looks to Fed Funding for Info Analysis

Thursday, November 14, 2019
Data science has reached a point where techniques such as deep learning can beat humans at recognizing objects, although experts are still figuring out how to make explainable predictions from massive data, NJIT distinguished professor...

Save Time and Money, Two Degrees in Five Years with the BS-MS Program

Thursday, November 14, 2019
For Elena Prokhorova, the decision to begin taking master’s level courses while still a computer science undergrad came down to personal interest, as she wanted more...

GirlHacks Winner Aims to Help Students with Hearing Loss

Friday, November 8, 2019
Anupriya Gotkhindi was listening to a lecture in her machine learning graduate class when she noticed a sign language translator having difficulty trying to decipher the...

NJIT Students Compete With Region's Best in Programming Competition

Tuesday, November 5, 2019
An NJIT team finished in the top third at this year's regional bracket of the International Collegiate Programming Contest, approximately matching last year's result and leaving members...
Part of a menu diagram for EIES from 1977

NJIT Research in 1970s Became Vital Parts of Today's Social Media Recipe

Thursday, October 31, 2019
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 here at NJIT...

Prestigious International Collegiate Programming Contest Coming to NJIT

Thursday, October 24, 2019
Hundreds of college students from throughout the Northeast will descend on NJIT on Oct. 27 to participate in a prestigious international programming competition. 

Security Expert On Guard For NJIT Networks, Prepares Users For Digital Wilds

Friday, October 18, 2019
Five monitors adorn George Eliopoulos' desk — he tried six and said it was too many — where the security analyst is responsible for protecting NJIT computer systems from malicious hackers.

NJIT Develops New Computer Memory Control to Speed Up Cloud Servers

Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Virtual machines are an important kind of software, invented in the 1960s but only popular since the 2000s, that enables servers to run several operating systems simultaneously — but lately they're facing an efficiency problem that NJIT professor...
Facebook engineer-in-residence Noah Cantor (kneeling)

NJIT Collaboration with Facebook Boosts Opportunities for Students

Monday, October 14, 2019
Catarina DeMatos’ experience with Facebook started with a surprise in the fall of 2018. She walked into her CS 114 class and learned her instructor was Miki Friedmann, a Facebook software engineer and a visiting faculty member at NJIT’s...