Ying Wu College of Computing

After concluding their eight-week summer program, NJIT students presented their startups, giving them an opportunity to experience entrepreneurship and business creation. The Highlander Foundry program is a summer startup incubator that helps NJIT students and alumni grow with the same techniques and strategies that launched many of the top startups today.  “We’re really excited about this because this event is sort of a celebration, a culmination of their experience here in the incubator and the program,” said Will Lutz, director of commercialization and co-director of VentureLink...

New Jersey Institute of Technology hosted the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval with in-person and remote participants focusing on critical, societal and technical presentations in the art of searching for vivid data online. It's easy to find single-type data such as text, whether you're using a consumer-oriented tool like Google or a professional application made for investigators and scientists, but the state-of-the-art for retrieving multimedia data is murky, experts at the conference said. Years of experiments and papers have led to simple functions such as...

An unpatched security bug in most web browsers allows hackers to monitor specific site visitors and leave scarce evidence of a digital trail, researchers with New Jersey Institute of Technology revealed. The bug can be exploited with well-crafted code that can, for example, wait for a targeted person to view an embarrassing website, record data about their clicks and share that data with those who wish to use it against the visitor. "We basically introduce new attacks that seek to achieve deanonymization on the web," explained Reza Curtmola, professor of computer science affiliated with...

Twitter was a strategic tool for Taliban operations in overthrowing the Afghanistan leadership during the country’s civil war, and some accounts associated with the oppressive group triggered the company's algorithms to promote ads for well-known Western brands, researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Princeton University and University of Regina found. "The current perception is that social media platforms moderate malicious actors and violent extremist content, this report demonstrates that this is patently untrue, at least in the case of Twitter," the...