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Two NJIT Students Are Among this Year's 128 Governor's STEM Scholars

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
NJIT students Aliya Laliwala and Mrunmayi Joshi have been selected to be part of this year’s Governor’s STEM Scholars class, which includes 128 scholars from 20 New Jersey counties — the program’s largest cohort ever. The Governor’s STEM Scholars program was created to engage the next generation of...

Turing Laureate, Compiler Pioneer Jeffrey Ullman Visits NJIT for Data Science Lecture

Friday, November 18th, 2022
When a Turing Award winner speaks, NJIT faculty and students listen. Jeffrey Ullman, known as a father of the modern compiler at Bell Labs and Princeton University in the 1960-1970s, filled the largest lecture hall in NJIT's Guttenberg Information Technologies Center for his October 14 lecture on d...

Experts at NJIT's Data Science Summit Propose New Paths in Hardware and AI

Monday, November 14th, 2022
New kinds of unconventional computer hardware, along with new ways of considering software responsibility, are both necessary if the next wave of data science will do anything more useful for the world than increase corporate profits. Such were two key messages expressed by experts from IBM and Goo...

HackNJIT, Back From Online Hiatus, Brings Creative Apps and Gadgets

Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Camping isn't the first hobby you associate with an urban campus, but the outdoors theme was a hit at HackNJIT this month, held fully in-person for the first time since 2019 because of the COVID pandemic. Approximately 200 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and from neighbors such as...

Students Will Design Hacking Apps, Hardware Exploits to Gain Experience

Thursday, October 6th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology students are forming a pair of computer security groups this semester, with the mutual goal of preparing students to hone their skills beyond the classroom. One group is NICC — NJIT Information and Cybersecurity Club — and the other is the Association for Computin...

Ying Wu College of Computing Matches Record Enrollment with 17 New Instructors for Fall 2022

Monday, October 3rd, 2022
Six new assistant professors have been appointed to the faculty of Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) for the 2022-2023 academic year. They are joined by 11 professors of practice, university lecturers and senior university lecturers who will support the College’s ever-growing enrollment numbers.&n...

Ying Wu College of Computing Shatters Enrollment Records in Fall 2022

Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) continues its upward trajectory as an NJIT enrollment leader, achieving a 17% increase relative to last year for a total of almost 4,100 students enrolled for the Fall 2022 semester. As such, YWCC now represents 34% of the entire NJIT student body for the new acad...

Elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Program Continues to Attract Top Students

Thursday, September 8th, 2022
The NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has selected five top students to join the highly selective NSF CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program in fall 2022. The competitive program includes a scholarship covering full tuition and fees f...

Online Graduate Computing Student Travels a Route Less Taken: The Thesis Option

Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
Joseph Patchett, a third year M.S. in Computer Science student, thrives on individuality. Whether pursuing his NJIT graduate degree as one of the few online students to actually visit campus or choosing the unprecedented option of completing his degree with a research thesis, he welcomes challe...

Computing Alumna from Vietnam, Now at Google, Credits Perseverance

Monday, August 15th, 2022
NJIT computer science alumna Hang Nguyen, the first in her family to attend college, started her full-time career as a Google software engineer based on her ability to quickly absorb new skills.  Nguyen grew up in central Vietnam, learned English and the outdated Pascal programming language in...