Freshman Wins Top Prize at HackNJIT, Zoo Theme Leads to Productive Apps

Monday, November 22nd, 2021
Students who developed software for game animation, package delivery, lecture transcription and wildlife sightings were all winners at HackNJIT this month. The event was almost back to normal this year, being in-person for NJIT students — complete with midnight snacks and impromptu 1:00 a.m. karaoke...

Outside of Class, Cybersecurity Students Learn to Think Like the Enemy

Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
A group of NJIT students studying cybersecurity outside the classroom learned that it's educational to pretend to be the bad guys, in order to design stronger defenses against them. SIGMAL — Special Interest Group for Malware — is a section born last year within NJIT's chapter of the Association for...

U.S. National Security Agency Recognizes NJIT Cyber Defense Education

Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
NJIT's Cybersecurity Research Center recently earned a National Center of Academic Excellence designation, recognizing the university's ability to train students in defending high-value computer networks. This designation, determined by the U.S. National Security Agency, covers 2021-2026 and indicat...

Computing College to Offer Financial Need Scholarships From NSF Grant

Friday, November 5th, 2021
Young adults who may leave college because of the expense may soon have a helping hand, as NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing is now offering 12 annual scholarships of $10,000 for each of the next three years to high-performing students in financial need. The funds come from a $1.38 million Nationa...

Streaming Data Analytics Has New Method Planned by NJIT, USC, Harvard

Monday, November 1st, 2021
E-commerce sites, military planners and streaming media providers all want to analyze multiple sources of live data as quickly as possible, a holy grail of data science which is about to become possible through new software called StreamWare, from researchers at Harvard University, New Jersey Instit...

NJIT's Basu Roy Integrates Humans and Computers to Optimize Tasks and Learn Facts

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
In the early days of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, researchers scrambled to decipher the novel virus — its transmission pathways, its effects on the body, its vulnerabilities. Senjuti Basu Roy, a computer scientist, wondered in turn how lay people absorbed the reams of emerging information they recei...

Ying Wu College of Computing Welcomes New Faculty for 2021-2022 Academic Year

Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
Top Row: Fuad Hamidli, Huong Le, Yao Ma, Kamlesh Naik Bottom Row: Shantanu Sharma,Julie Ancis, Hua Wei Seven new faculty members – researchers and instructors – joined the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) in Fall 2021, embracing the opportunity to contribute to the NJIT academic mission. They ...

Experts at NJIT's New AI Research Center to Study Theory and Applications

Friday, October 1st, 2021
Members of NJIT's new Center for Artificial Intelligence Research will look to expand knowledge of the theory, data and applications of their field, which director Grace Wang said is quickly evolving from experimental to practical status. The center will rely heavily on external grants, such as from...

Digital Archive of Newark Architecture Goes AR

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
There is nothing outwardly special about the old brick building on State Street and Broadway. To the layperson, it’s just another pile of bricks near a highway entrance. Through a phone app and a camera lens, the NJIT Littman Architecture Library’s Digital Archive of Newark Architecture (DANA) will ...

Computing Professor Explores Mixed-Reality Cure for Zoom Fatigue

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
Looking to reduce the stress that confronts people who videoconference too much — widely known as Zoom fatigue, following the work-from-home trend of the COVID pandemic — one expert from NJIT is working on new approaches to augmented and virtual reality systems. Associate Professor Jacob Chakareski ...