The fourth edition of the annual Jersey Capture the Flag competition has become a brand standard among the global millions who depend on the dashboard CTFTime to remain informed and participate in the highly popular information security competitions. This year’s event drew many repeat visitors to the NJIT campus as well as online from around the world to brave the 24-hr. marathon and hack their way through a total of 67 challenges in cryptography, binary exploitation/reverse engineering, forensics, web exploitation and OSINT (open source intelligence). The competition drew 1,700 registrants…

New Jersey Institute of Technology aims to be a nexus of innovation that embraces new tech, commercializes groundbreaking research, leverages its diversity and tackles global environmental and socioeconomic challenges under a new strategic plan that extends through 2030. The plan, NJIT Makes An Innovation Nexus, identifies six priorities, spells out the university’s mission to be a leader in research, innovation and entrepreneurship, and reaffirms its core values, including collaboration, social responsibility, diversity and sustainability. The priorities define student and faculty success…

Can learning your periodic tables in chemistry class actually be fun? Kantida Nanon, a Ph.D. candidate, thinks her augmented reality (AR) solution may provide the eureka moment that every science teacher seeking to better engage students has sought for decades. Her project titled “Enhancing Chemistry Education Through AR” uses the technology to motivate better learning outcomes for students who may sometimes struggle when learning logical or fact-based information. The game-based project features an immersive experience matching atomic numbers with element names. By matching elements,…

Like many NJIT students, senior computer science majors Ruby Kapoor and Jason Zheng have made the most of their undergraduate experience. They were the recipients of an NSF mini-grant to further explore creating successful entrepreneurship startups. The $3,000 award brought them to the Professional Convention Management Association Conference (PCMA) in San Diego to network with market researchers and gather information on their minimal viable idea for building a wireframe to support local event-based businesses and vendors related to student clubs, tourism and many others, through an app…

Jim Geller, professor in the Department of Data Science, and Fadi Deek, former NJIT provost and distinguished professor in the Department of Informatics, attended the BIOSTEC 2024 conference in Rome during February to present papers on behalf of their co-authors, which included additional faculty and Ph.D. candidates from the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) on subjects related to machine learning and ethical AI. BIOSTEC is a joint conference that brings together researchers and practitioners in areas of engineering, biology, healthcare and computing interested in theoretical advances and…

The NJIT Information and Cybersecurity Club (NICC), the budding student run organization with a mission to give students real-time, practical experience in information security and cybersecurity, has been rising in the ranks of CTF competitions across the nation and abroad. The club recently placed third out of 12 northeast regional teams in the NCAE Cyber Games, held March 8 by the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C). NICC has gained a foothold among their cybersecurity peers since its inception two years ago as the brainchild of president and co-founder…

Robert Cohen, a three-time New Jersey Institute of Technology alumnus and current chair of the university’s Board of Trustees, leads a digital, robotics and enabling technology division at medical technology firm Stryker Corp. that grabbed Apple’s attention this month for its work with the new VisionPro mixed-reality headset. VisionPro headsets put screens and software directly in front of a physician’s eyes. Stryker’s Vision Pro application is called MyMako. It lets surgeons plan and simulate pre-planning for robot-assisted knee replacement operations before they happen, and view the plans…

What are the latest innovations around artificial intelligence, how will it change the way we work and what safeguards are needed to address systemic inequities? Data scientists, policy experts and the head of a state commission will examine these issues and more at “Intelligent Uses of Artificial Intelligence: Making Technology Work for All of Us,” an upcoming conference from the Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective.  The participants will tackle the issues in three sessions, each with…

The New York meetup of the Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG NY), an annual conference that covers research broadly related to machine learning on graphs, was hosted on February 29 and March 2 by the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at their NJIT@JerseyCity location, on the premises of the NJIT-BGU Institute of Future Technologies (IFT). The event was spearheaded by Ali Parviz, a Ph.D. student at NJIT, along with Ph.D. students from Cornell and MIT. The LoG meetups are local events held in various national and international locations to foster discussions between students, professors,…

Artificial intelligence, data science and the emerging field of quantum computing are among the hottest research topics in computing overall. David Bader, a distinguished professor in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing and director of the university’s Institute for Data Science, shared his thoughts on big-picture questions about each area. Bader is known globally for his innovative work in the history and cutting-edge of computing. In 2023 you were recognized by the Computer History Museum for developing a Linux supercomputer using commodity hardware. Your approach is now the dominant…