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Teaching the Teachers

Friday, September 21st, 2018
The school year is back in swing and teachers in New Jersey have returned to the classroom with new computer science skills acquired this summer at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing. The teachers, from three school districts, were students this summer at NJIT in a CS 100 course titled “Python Pro...

Transforming Newark One Classroom, One Conversation, One Carrot at a Time

Sunday, September 9th, 2018
As towering cranes and forklifts shuttled brightly colored containers from ships to trucks in Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal last week, Cameron Bennett ’22 was also busy inside the port loading human-scale cargo to go back out to sea. Bennett, one of the 1065 freshmen to disperse across...

NJIT Partners With Facebook to Increase Diversity in Tech Workforce

Wednesday, September 5th, 2018
Second-year students taking computer science (CS) classes at NJIT will learn to resize dynamic arrays, balance binary trees and implement hash tables from a software engineer employed by the largest social networking company in the world. In 2016, Facebook launched an Engineer-In-Residence (EIR) pr...

This Alum Implements Customer-Facing Features For Amazon

Wednesday, August 29th, 2018

This Information Systems Graduate Has a Clear Vision For His Future

Wednesday, July 18th, 2018
Agrim Sachdeva ’18 received a master’s degree in information systems from NJIT this spring, but he isn’t making a big deal about it. While many recent graduates are thinking about relaxing a little, maybe taking a vacation, Sachdeva is still spending time at NJIT. He’s continuing to work with the un...

Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center of NJIT Hosts Workshop

Monday, July 9th, 2018
The Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center (SABOC) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) hosted the Ontology Quality Assurance Grant Workshop 2018, a two-day seminar on medical informatics research, on June 25 and 26. SABOC at NJIT is devoted to exploring structural issues in bi...

NJIT Hosts 6th Annual NY/NJ Conference of Computer Science Chairs

Monday, July 2nd, 2018
A yearly tradition of regional computer science department chairs sharing teaching methods, demonstrating new research and awarding high-quality teaching continued on the campus of NJIT in June. The conference, now in its sixth year, aims to increase the visibility of computer science education i...

Tech Scene Takes Hold in Newark: NJIT and Amazon Join Forces this Summer

Tuesday, June 5th, 2018

This Fresh Graduate Will Pursue a Master's in Data Science

Friday, June 1st, 2018
Fresh off the heels of graduating with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Connor Watson ’18 has an internship lined up crunching data for Quantbot Technologies, a New York City-based private investment firm. The summer gig complements the West New York native’s post-graduate endeavors. Wats...

NJIT Educates Next Generation of Tech Entrepreneurs

Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Found your own company and be your own boss upon graduation? Unthinkable? Not any more.  In this day and age, founding a startup is a viable alternative to working as an employee in an existing company. Especially in the burgeoning tech sector. Especially in the exciting New York region. All ...