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Use of Twitter Helped Taliban Regain Control in Afghanistan, Researchers Find

Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Twitter was a strategic tool for Taliban operations in overthrowing the Afghanistan leadership during the country’s civil war, and some accounts associated with the oppressive group triggered the company's algorithms to promote ads for well-known...

Listening to Noise and Nature With Smart Ears

Sunday, June 26, 2022
Filing a noise complaint is a bit of a gamble. By the time an inspector arrives, the stream of trucks thundering by the night before may be long gone or the construction tools bedeviling the dinner hour turned off. In a dense soundscape, even...

CodePath Fellows Help Train Their Peers to Develop Android Apps

Thursday, June 9, 2022
Two undergraduates have turned a free Android mobile app development course they took into a teaching moment through CodePath....

'iRecommend' wins GfK's NextGen Data Science Hackathon

Tuesday, June 7, 2022
The idea for a service that would give buyers recommendations for products they cannot live without has won four computer science students in the Ying Wu College of Computing 1st place and a $5,000 grand prize as part of...

Senior Success: Sam Itman's Passion Leads to Cybersecurity Career

Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Information technology student Sam Itman has long believed that knowledge and passion for technology can open doors as “it presents a world of opportunities to those who...

Informatics Professor Applies AI to Auto Traffic Simulation

Monday, April 25, 2022
Assistant Professor Hua Wei is studying how to build more realistic models for traffic simulation, with the goal of improving predictions by closing the gap between just following traffic laws vs. how people actually drive.

Computing Students Provide Real-World Solutions for Bank of America in Capstone Project

Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Capstone projects, done in collaboration with companies, are a requirement for every senior in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at New Jersey Institute of...

NJIT Is No. 1 in New Jersey to Study Game Design, Top 20 in the East

Tuesday, March 22, 2022
NJIT has been ranked the top school in New Jersey for students to study game design, according to...

IT Student Sam Itman Helps Modernize Optum

Monday, March 14, 2022
Some might say that Sam Itman’s direction in life was preordained by his last name, as this “IT man” has had a passion for technology since childhood.

US News and World Report Ranks NJIT Online Programs Top 100 Nationally, Top 3 Statewide

Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Three of NJIT's online graduate programs placed among the top 100 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities, and in the top...