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NJIT Hosts Game Development Marathon for Global Game Jam

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Nearly 100 budding game designers pulled all-nighters at NJIT for the Eleventh Annual Global Game Jam (GGJ) in what has become a much anticipated event for both design and information technology students.

The Department of Informatics Welcomes Three New Faculty Members

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Three professors joined the Department of Informatics at the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) this Fall.Check out the Q&A below to learn a little more about Aritra Dasgupta, Margarita Vinnikov and Xinyue Ye, who hail from...

Computing Dean Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

At NJIT, Craig Gotsman is best known as dean of Ying Wu College of Computing. Within the scientific community, he is better known as the inventor of a number of cutting-edge software technologies for manipulating 3D geometric data, enabling their...

NJIT's Game Development Program Preps Students for Careers in Diverse Fields

Friday, November 30, 2018

Housed within the School of Art + Design and Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT’s game development program blends digital design ...

NJIT Launches A Potent Research Hub: The Institute for Space Weather Sciences

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Both on land and in space, Earth’s technology-centered civilization is increasingly vulnerable to the powerful bursts of electromagnetic radiation, energetic charged particles and magnetized plasma known as space weather.

NJIT Launches Corporate Data Science and Analytics Training Program

Friday, November 16, 2018

Addressing a critical need in today’s data-driven world, the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at NJIT now offers a training program in Data Science and Analytics, tailored to those developing and using this technology in the corporate world....

Meet Ying Wu College of Computing's New Department Chairs

Friday, November 2, 2018

This fall, NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) welcomed two new department chairs: Frank Biocca, chair of the informatics department, and Baruch Schieber, chair of the computer science department.Biocca and Schieber bring a vast...

Researchers Create AI Project on Display at 4th Istanbul Design Biennial

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

How well do you know your whereabouts? Better yet, how does one get acquainted with a new location when traveling or relocating?A team of researchers at NJIT has created aplace-based artificial intelligence project that helps denizens...

The MIXRLab is Pushing the Boundaries of Game Design and Simulation

Thursday, October 11, 2018

TEDxNJIT Event on November 8

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a TEDxNJIT event Nov.