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NJIT Tops National Ranking For Computer Programming

Wednesday, September 1st, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology leads U.S. universities in teaching programming languages, according to a new survey by HackerRank, which sells products to help human resources departments evaluate software developers. NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing prepares students to program in Python, J...

NSF Continues Funding NJIT's Future Defenders of Government Computing

Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
NJIT this month won its second grant from the National Science Foundation's CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, in which students studying toward master's degrees receive up to three years of free tuition and generous stipends, in exchange for working at government cybersecurity jobs af...

New Diagnosis Tools Will Help Protect Data in Event-Based Applications

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
Software behaving badly, especially when it corrupts, exposes or loses someone's data, is the motivation for new research from NJIT Prof. Iulian Neamtiu on how event-based applications go astray and what can be done to fix them. Such applications are often found in smartphones, websites and Interne...

Amazon Buys Wickr, A Secure Messaging App Founded by NJIT Alumni, Faculty

Friday, July 23rd, 2021
Online commerce giant Amazon recently acquired Wickr, a secure messaging company founded at NJIT in 2011 that's known for its focus on corporate and military customers, and will integrate the technology into its Amazon Web Services portfolio. Wickr's Highlander roots run deep, as most of its early ...

NJIT Researchers Evaluate Online Harassment of Marginalized Live-Streamers

Friday, July 2nd, 2021
Developers of live-streaming software could help block online harassment of women and LGBTQ people, based on new research from NJIT's informatics department where students and faculty studied the common types of harassment and interviewed 25 streamers to understand coping strategies. The most commo...

Graduate Certificates Enable Easy Transition into Computing M.S. Programs

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
With computing playing an ever-increasing role in how companies operate, and the high demand for skilled computing professionals, people with no previous college or work experience in computing are applying to Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) to pursue graduate degree in one of the college’s M.S....

College of Computing Creates New Department of Data Science

Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Building on existing academic and research strengths, NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing has created a new Department of Data Science where students will learn the deep underlying technologies driving this field and its broad spectrum of applications. The college has taken significant st...

Design Professor Embraces AI to Quantify Accessibility of Buildings

Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but walkability could be evaluated by algorithms, according to new research from an unconventional professor in NJIT's Hillier College of Architecture and Design. "Most people assume that architects have some tool to visualize or analyze how people will use the...

Computing Professor Develops Algorithms to Design Faster Computer Circuits

Friday, May 28th, 2021
Research conducted by Ioannis Koutis, associate professor of computer science at NJIT, may change how manufacturers think about logic circuit design and increasing circuit processing speeds compared to state-of-the-art methods. When a manufacturer designs a logic circuit, it is necessary, particula...

NJIT and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra To Bring Classical Music into the Digital Age

Thursday, May 27th, 2021
Music lovers know that there is nothing like a live performance, but the COVID-19 pandemic inspired Newark's New Jersey Symphony Orchestra to challenge Ying Wu College of Computing faculty and students to investigate better ways to present virtual concerts using mixed-reality technology. The orches...