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NJIT@JerseyCity Celebrates First Graduates of M.S. in Data Science Program

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
NJIT @JerseyCity celebrated the graduation of its first group of master’s students, with four students earning their Master of Science in Data Science at the end of the fall semester this week. While a typical part-time M.S. program takes five semesters to complete, including a full summer semester,...

COVID-19 Vaccines Breathe Life into Research Done 20 Years Ago

Thursday, December 17th, 2020
Research conducted 20 years ago by a former NJIT dean is being put to new use in the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech. Barry Cohen,  who was an associate dean of Ying Wu College of Computing, worked on the algorithm for bioengineering stable messenger RNA (mRNA), a key ingredient of the v...

Free Android Dev Course Will be Taught by NJIT Students in Spring 2021

Monday, December 7th, 2020
This spring semester, NJIT students will have the chance to participate in a free Android mobile app development course backed by major tech companies including Amazon, Cognizant, Facebook, and Microsoft, along with retail giant Walmart. The course is run by CodePath.org, a nonprofit organization t...

NJIT Team Wins Award at International Entrepreneurship Competition

Monday, November 30th, 2020
A team of NJIT entrepreneurs was among those recognized by TiE Global, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship around the world, at the organization’s second annual TiE University Pitch Competition this fall, which included 13 teams representing TiE chapters from India, Isr...

Winners of Virtual HackNJIT Made Music, Chat App, Disease Detector

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Highlanders won the top three prizes at November's HackNJIT competition, with software allowing friends to remotely jam together, video chat with speech translations and even detect pneumonia in chest X-rays. The annual event was virtual this year due to COVID-19, which for a hackathon tends t...

Technology VIPs, Including an Internet Pioneer, Visit NJIT for Inspiration

Friday, October 30th, 2020
TTI/Vanguard, a prestigious organization of technology industry executives who meet a few times each year to study and debate emerging innovations, chose to virtually visit New Jersey Institute of Technology this week for their latest intellectual retreat. The group's members, through exposure to w...

2020 Research Report Highlights Innovative Computing Research from YWCC Faculty

Friday, October 30th, 2020
The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at NJIT has published its 2020 Research Report, showcasing the diverse research activities conducted by Ying Wu faculty over the past year. Research topics span a wide spectrum of interests, from human-computer interaction to cybersecurity, data science and v...

Researching the Effects of Online Misinformation and Realities of the Coronavirus

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
Assistant Professor Cody Buntain, NJIT's expert on the science of understanding social media, is turning his trained eyes to the connections between online misinformation and public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Using software that he co-developed in 2017 with University of Waterloo ...

GirlHacks Went Virtual, Projects Focused on COVID-19 and Social Justice

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
GirlHacks went virtual this year, with extra-diverse participation and several healthcare-oriented projects, all due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event, which was hosted Oct. 10-11 by NJIT's Women in Computing Society, had almost 80 entrants spanning 28 projects from colleges and even high schools...

Institute for Data Science Unveils 2020-2021 Talks, Many to Discuss COVID-19

Monday, October 12th, 2020
About two dozen experts on data science are giving seminars to the NJIT community this semester and next, with many of them excited to participate virtually from far away with the students and faculty here in New Jersey . David Bader, director of NJIT's Institute for Data Science, said he is excite...