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NJIT Hosts Game Development Marathon for Global Game Jam

Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
Nearly 100 budding game designers pulled all-nighters at NJIT for the Eleventh Annual Global Game Jam (GGJ) in what has become a much anticipated event for both design and information technology students. Organized in 2008, GGJ, an international nonprofit corporation based in California, is th...

The Department of Informatics Welcomes Three New Faculty Members

Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
Three professors joined the Department of Informatics at the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) this Fall. Check out the Q&A below to learn a little more about Aritra Dasgupta, Margarita Vinnikov and Xinyue Ye, who hail from institutions across the country. Assistant Professor Aritra Dasgupta...

Computing Dean Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
At NJIT, Craig Gotsman is best known as dean of Ying Wu College of Computing. Within the scientific community, he is better known as the inventor of a number of cutting-edge software technologies for manipulating 3D geometric data, enabling their use in a variety of applications. Many of these techn...

NJIT's Game Development Program Preps Students for Careers in Diverse Fields

Friday, November 30th, 2018
Housed within the School of Art + Design and Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT’s game development program blends digital design and information technology curriculums to offer students access to faculty and resources that cross disciplinary boundaries and cultivate innova...

NJIT Launches A Potent Research Hub: The Institute for Space Weather Sciences

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
Both on land and in space, Earth’s technology-centered civilization is increasingly vulnerable to the powerful bursts of electromagnetic radiation, energetic charged particles and magnetized plasma known as space weather. As the complexity of engineered systems increases, as new technologies are inv...

NJIT Launches Corporate Data Science and Analytics Training Program

Friday, November 16th, 2018
Addressing a critical need in today’s data-driven world, the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at NJIT now offers a training program in Data Science and Analytics, tailored to those developing and using this technology in the corporate world. This fall three YWCC professors delivered a three-cours...

Meet Ying Wu College of Computing's New Department Chairs

Friday, November 2nd, 2018
This fall, NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) welcomed two new department chairs: Frank Biocca, chair of the informatics department, and Baruch Schieber, chair of the computer science department. Biocca and Schieber bring a vast array of experience and knowledge to NJIT. “I am delighted to...

Researchers Create AI Project on Display at 4th Istanbul Design Biennial

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
How well do you know your whereabouts? Better yet, how does one get acquainted with a new location when traveling or relocating? A team of researchers at NJIT has created a place-based artificial intelligence project that helps denizens expand their knowledge of the city of Istanbul. “[AI]stanbul ...

The MIXRLab is Pushing the Boundaries of Game Design and Simulation

Thursday, October 11th, 2018
The MIXRLab in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) has officially opened. The unique facility is designed for social interaction, application development and state of the art research. With an academic theme on game design and simulation, courses that will utilize the lab focus...

TEDxNJIT Event on November 8

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a TEDxNJIT event Nov. 8, 2018 in the Jim Wise Theatre on the NJIT campus and via an accompanying live simulcast available to viewers worldwide. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is themed “ReFraming” and will featur...