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College of Computing Welcomes New Faculty in AI, Databases, Networking

Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Ying Wu College of Computing at NJIT welcomed this fall four new faculty members. Focused on expanding its footprint in research and teaching, these strategic faculty hires are an important element of that effort, bringing an impressive depth and breadth of knowledge to the college and its students....

Wohn Awarded for Mentoring Women and Minorities in Computing

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
In a lab dedicated to developing novel technologies for positive social interaction and trying to understand how people use social technologies, such as social media, mobile phones, and multiplayer games, it is the face-to-face, in-person relationships that students have with each other, faculty, an...

ACM Chapter Plans Virtual HackNJIT Event, New Special-Interest Groups

Friday, September 18th, 2020
NJIT's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery dates back to the 1970s but they've had no semester quite like fall 2020 with all events being virtual. Their annual HackNJIT event (November 7-8), along with the NJIT Women in Computing Society's GirlHacks (October 10...

NJIT's Fall Career Fair Becomes a Fully Online Experience

Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
The handshakes will be virtual at this fall’s career fair at NJIT. In fact, the entire fair will take place online via Handshake, the career networking platform that the university uses to match employers with students seeking jobs, internships and co-operative education opportunities.  More ...

Computing Professor's App Manages NJIT Converged Learning

Thursday, August 27th, 2020
As students return to campus this fall, NJIT and universities around the country face the challenge of adhering to COVID-19 preventative measures such as social distancing and mask use, while also maximizing the usage of the available resources and learning spaces on campus. One of the techniques de...

NJIT@JerseyCity Expands with New Graduate Programs in Computing

Friday, July 17th, 2020
Three master's degrees and five graduate certificate programs are now available to Ying Wu College of Computing students in the NJIT​ @​JerseyCity location. Programs at the Exchange Place location opened in fall 2019 offering a Master of Science in Data Science along with graduate certificates in b...

NJIT Lecturer Helps Digitize Government Services in Zambia

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Zambia, a country in south-central Africa, is rich in natural resources but significantly lacking in technological and educational resources. This has made it difficult for the country to boost economic development, alleviate poverty and improve quality of life. Enter Keith Williams, NJIT universit...

Online Shopping Study Can Help Explain the Internet's Social Connections

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
Studying the evolution and function of online shopping communities could teach computer science researchers about online community-making in general, experts at NJIT said in a series of recent papers.  The papers cover the methods and motivations of how shoppers interact with each other online...

Ying Wu College of Computing Starts New Effort to Recruit and Retain Women

Tuesday, June 9th, 2020
A new plan to recruit and retain more women as computer science majors is beginning in earnest this summer at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing. Similar efforts have been underway for five years, said James Geller, a professor and associate dean for research. But the push has a new tailwind ...

Smartphone Users Can Keep Privacy During Opt-In Behavior Research

Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
Informatics department Assistant Professor Hai Phan is studying how to protect privacy in mobile applications that track a user's behavior. Phan received a $100,000 grant from a major technology company for the project, Detecting Human Behaviors from Smartphones Using Federated Machine Learning in ...