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Cybersecurity Courses to be Offered For Professional Development

Friday, January 31st, 2020
NJIT will offer an extensive cybersecurity program starting this summer through its Professional Development and Executive Education department in partnership with HackerU, a digital skills and cybersecurity training specialist based in Israel. “The program will give adult learners 400 hours of trai...

NJIT Experts Presenting AI Answers to Real-World Problems at NYC Forum

Friday, January 31st, 2020
Experts in artificial intelligence from the Ying Wu College of Computing will highlight how their work solves real-world problems at a prestigious meeting in New York next week. The professors — Chaoran Cheng, Jing Li, Zhi Wei and Pan Xu — will share their session stages with researchers from IBM, F...

Technology Forecast: Atam Dhawan Sets 10 Goalposts for the 2020s

Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
*As previously published in the Star-Ledger and nj.com As our civilization evolves, so do our expectations of technology. Together, they demonstrate how dramatic advances in robots, nanotechnology-enabled sensors and high-powered computing will continue to change and evolve our society. Importantly,...

NJIT Rated 6th in the Nation for Campus Safety

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
The Department of Public Safety at NJIT has been ranked sixth nationwide for its campus safety initiatives. The recognition comes from Safe Campus, an independent organization that strives to improve the overall safety and security of U.S. college and university students, and annually rates campuses...

NJIT Machine Learning Expertise Powers Tax Software for Vertex Inc.

Monday, January 27th, 2020
Throughout the United States there are more than 11,000 tax jurisdictions collecting sales tax. Imagine it’s your job to keep up with all the changes to tax laws and help clients follow every new rule and file every return. That’s the task Vertex, Inc. faces daily. Vertex develops tax software and ...

Engineering Prof. Misra Named IEEE Fellow, Stops Transistors From Leaking Energy

Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
Durgamadhab Misra is the newest member of NJIT's Newark College of Engineering to become a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Misra won the prestigious award for his ongoing research on preventing transistors from leaking electrons. Every time a transistor leaks...

Constructive Counsel: The Merits of Peer Mentoring

Thursday, January 16th, 2020
Patrycja Ptak, a second-year architecture student at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, vividly recalls the uncertainty she felt and challenges she faced navigating the college pathway — which is why she decided to become a mentor through Strive for College, an online platform that p...

NJIT Online Programs Among the Best, Says U.S. News & World Report

Tuesday, January 14th, 2020
U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 rankings for “Best Online Programs” are out, and NJIT realized gains in four graduate-study areas: business, information technology (IT), engineering and MBA. The rankings are the result of extensive assessments over the past year of more than 1,600 online degree ...

$1 million NSF Grant Awarded to Develop Open Knowledge Network

Friday, December 20th, 2019
Two New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) professors are part of a consortium of 10 organizations that received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to use technology to assist agencies that manage wildfires, water quality and biodiversity. Ying Wu College of Computing profes...

NJIT Was Early Leader in Giving Microcomputers to New Students in 1980s

Friday, December 20th, 2019
Personal computing evolved from the primordial soup of electronics miniaturization in the 1960s-1970s, and before long the revolution was at full strength in University Heights. Mainframes and servers still handled administrative and research tasks in the 1970s and 1980s, as they do today, although ...