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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...
Dorman Scholars, computer science majors and hackathon winners Aarati Srikumar and George Aboudiwan

NJIT Students Come in 1st With Election-Inspired Hackathon Project

Friday, October 4, 2019
It was a timely inspiration that garnered two Honors College students a first-place hackathon win.

NJIT Student Launching New Mobile Payment App for Small Businesses

Friday, October 4, 2019
Stop in any Starbucks or McDonalds and you’ll see the signs by the credit card reader: Google Pay accepted here, Apple Pay accepted, or tap to pay. 

NJIT Hosts Tech Giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft

Tuesday, October 1, 2019
NJIT students had a chance to connect with tech powerhouses Facebook, Google and Microsoft during information sessions held on campus.