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Constructive Counsel: The Merits of Peer Mentoring

Thursday, January 16, 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...

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

Friday, December 20, 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.

$1 million NSF Grant Awarded to Develop Open Knowledge Network

Friday, December 20, 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...

High Schoolers Come to NJIT to Learn About Virtual Reality and Research

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Students from the Hunterdon County Computer Science and Applied Engineering Academy came to NJIT on Nov. 22 to participate in a study of the impact of virtual reality (...

NJIT Gets Chapter of Google Developer Student Club

Monday, December 9, 2019
NJIT now has a chapter of the Google Developer Student Club.

NJIT@JerseyCity Officially Launched with Expectation of Rapid Growth

Friday, December 6, 2019
NJIT welcomed 35 data science students to its newly opened NJIT@JerseyCity location this semester, with a goal of doubling that number in the spring and reaching 500...

A Q&A with David Bader, Director of NJIT's New Institute for Data Science

Monday, December 2, 2019
David Bader, distinguished professor of computer science, is the director of NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science.

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.

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...

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...