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High Schoolers Come to NJIT to Learn About Virtual Reality and Research

Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
Students from the Hunterdon County Computer Science and Applied Engineering Academy came to NJIT on Nov. 22 to participate in a study of the impact of virtual reality (VR) on learning and knowledge retention.. The event, organized by NJIT professor Lori Watrous-deVersterre, had two goals. First, to...

NJIT Gets Chapter of Google Developer Student Club

Monday, December 9th, 2019
NJIT now has a chapter of the Google Developer Student Club. Google formed the international organization two years ago to teach real-world information technology skills that aren't necessarily taught in college classrooms. It's also a way for the software giant to promote its products and recruit ...

Communication Networks Pioneer Nirwan Ansari is Named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Sunday, December 8th, 2019
Nirwan Ansari ’82, a pioneer in the field of communications whose research on telecoms networks formed part of the backbone for broadband access and later FIOS networks, has been named a 2019 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Ansari, a distinguished professor of electrical and comp...

NJIT@JerseyCity Officially Launched with Expectation of Rapid Growth

Friday, December 6th, 2019
NJIT welcomed 35 data science students to its newly opened NJIT@JerseyCity location this semester, with a goal of doubling that number in the spring and reaching 500 students in three years, Ying Wu College of Computing Dean Craig Gotsman said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony held December 5 at the ne...

NJIT Opens State-of-the-Art Nanoelectronics Fabrication Facility

Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Sagnik Basuray is developing a device the size of a dollar coin that will detect cancer biomarkers in patients in remission by sampling a tiny drop of blood with a dip stick. His sensor is groundbreaking not only in its simplicity, but also in its portability. It’s meant to be used at home. “Cancer...

A Q&A with David Bader, Director of NJIT's New Institute for Data Science

Monday, December 2nd, 2019
David Bader, distinguished professor of computer science, is the director of NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science. His interests lie at the intersection of data science and high-performance computing, with applications in cybersecurity, massive-scale analytics and computational genomics. Dr. Bader ...

NJIT to Open State-of-the-Art Facility to Fabricate Nanoelectronic Devices and Sensors

Monday, December 2nd, 2019
NJIT Unveils State-of-the-Art Facility to Fabricate Nanoelectronic Devices and Sensors What: Ribbon-Cutting for NJIT’s Microfabrication Innovation Center, followed by a tour of the facility When: 11 a.m., December 5, 2019 Who: Speakers to include Joel Bloom, NJIT president; Robert Cohen, chair-el...

NJIT Math Prof. Shang Seeks Proof For Why Machine Learning Works

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Programmers can tell you what machine learning does and how it works, but they can't really prove why it works. Enter the mathematicians. The what and how of machine learning are well documented — it's software that examines big data to find meaning and possibly suggest actions, based on looking fo...

NJIT's Chrystoff Camacho Wins an Edison Patent Award for an Aerial Reforestation Device

Friday, November 15th, 2019
Chrystoff Camacho, an inventor and budding entrepreneur who developed an aerial reforestation device while he was an engineering technology student at NJIT, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for his drone-deployed seed capsule. Cama...

Data Science Expert Bader Looks to Fed Funding for Info Analysis

Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Data science has reached a point where techniques such as deep learning can beat humans at recognizing objects, although experts are still figuring out how to make explainable predictions from massive data, NJIT distinguished professor David Bader said. Bader leads the university's Institute for Da...