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New Computer Science Elective Examines the History of Computing

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
A new course about the history of information systems will be offered by Ying Wu College of Computing this spring, where students will learn about everything from calculation methods of ancient and medieval times, through early visions of mechanical computer architecture in the Industrial Age, strai...

Freshman Wins Top Prize at HackNJIT, Zoo Theme Leads to Productive Apps

Monday, November 22nd, 2021
Students who developed software for game animation, package delivery, lecture transcription and wildlife sightings were all winners at HackNJIT this month. The event was almost back to normal this year, being in-person for NJIT students — complete with midnight snacks and impromptu 1:00 a.m. karaok...

Streaming Data Analytics Has New Method Planned by NJIT, USC, Harvard

Monday, November 1st, 2021
E-commerce sites, military planners and streaming media providers all want to analyze multiple sources of live data as quickly as possible, a holy grail of data science which is about to become possible through new software called StreamWare, from researchers at Harvard University, New Jersey Instit...

Ying Wu College of Computing Welcomes New Faculty for 2021-2022 Academic Year

Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
Top Row: Fuad Hamidli, Huong Le, Yao Ma, Kamlesh Naik    Bottom Row: Shantanu Sharma,Julie Ancis, Hua Wei Seven new faculty members – researchers and instructors – joined the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) in Fall 2021, embracing the opportunity to contribute to the NJIT academic mi...

Experts at NJIT's New AI Research Center to Study Theory and Applications

Friday, October 1st, 2021
Members of NJIT's new Center for Artificial Intelligence Research will look to expand knowledge of the theory, data and applications of their field, which director Grace Wang said is quickly evolving from experimental to practical status. The center will rely heavily on external grants, such as fro...

Computing Professor Explores Mixed-Reality Cure for Zoom Fatigue

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
Looking to reduce the stress that confronts people who videoconference too much — widely known as Zoom fatigue, following the work-from-home trend of the COVID pandemic — one expert from NJIT is working on new approaches to augmented and virtual reality systems. Associate Professor Jacob Chakareski...

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 ...