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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...
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...

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.
Prof. Eric Nersesian discussing the mixed-reality laboratory

Virtual and Augmented Reality Tech Get Real-World Use At NJIT MIXR Lab

Monday, September 23, 2019
An augmented and virtual reality educational game developed by the NJIT MIXR Laboratory, which is a dual project of the Ying Wu College of Computing and Hillier College of Architecture and Design, is being showcased at an important conference in...
Prof. Cody Buntain studies the impact of social media on elections. He's testing a theory about the inevitability of users finding conspiracy theories if they exclusively follow single points of view long enough.

Put Away Your Smartphone to Understand Tech's Impact on Elections

Thursday, September 19, 2019
Students wishing to understand the chaos of national politics might listen to Cody Buntain, a new assistant professor in the Ying Wu College of Computing informatics department, who said it succinctly: "Look away from the phone."
Social media moderation diagram

NJIT Experts Lead $1.5M NSF Grant to Study Social Media Moderation

Friday, September 13, 2019
NJIT researchers received an $849,024 National Science Foundation grant to help invent ways of taming the wilderness that is online content moderation.

NJIT@JerseyCity Launches with Data Science Graduate Programs

Thursday, September 12, 2019
NJIT @JerseyCity welcomed its first students on September 3, 2019.

NJIT Professor Awarded Prestigious DARPA Fellowship

Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Kurt Rohloff, a professor of computer science at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, has been awarded the prestigious DARPA Director’s Fellowship from the Defense...

Program started by NJIT Professor Spreading Entrepreneurial Spirit Around the World

Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Three times a year, NJIT’s Osama Eljabiri makes the trip to Medellin, Colombia, as part of his Real World Connections (RWC) program.

NJIT Professor Receives Facebook Research Award for Data Science

Tuesday, August 13, 2019
The director of NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science has received an award from Facebook to support real-world analytics research.