Many Capstone projects, proposed by a company and performed by a team of students as a senior-year course requirement in the Ying Wu College of Computing, are successful enough to be developed further by the sponsoring company. On occasion, a student or two will be fortunate enough to receive an employment offer from the company as a result of their good work. It is far less common, however, for an entire Capstone team, let alone two entire Capstone teams of the same semester and sponsor, to be hired – and made full partners in the company. Such is the case for eight students whose Eco-…

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…

July 1 marks the first day of Dr. Teik C. Lim’s appointment as president of New Jersey Institute of Technology. “My wife, Gina, and I are ecstatic to be joining the NJIT community, and we are excited about the opportunities and challenges that await us,” said Dr. Lim. “It was an honor to be selected to lead such an important institution into the future, and a privilege to begin the work of leading NJIT and continuing its amazing trajectory.” Before NJIT, Lim served as interim president at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he also served as provost and a professor in the Department…

Filing a noise complaint is a bit of a gamble. By the time an inspector arrives, the stream of trucks thundering by the night before may be long gone or the construction tools bedeviling the dinner hour turned off. In a dense soundscape, even pinpointing the worst offender can be a challenge. Was it a jackhammer or a tamping machine making that repetitive racket? Where logistics, human perceptual capabilities or simple manpower may fall short, however, smart acoustic sensors are being trained to succeed. Endowed with machine listening, the auditory sibling to computer vision, these cutting-…

Two undergraduates have turned a free Android mobile app development course they took into a teaching moment through CodePath.org, a nonprofit organization that offers free software development courses at colleges and universities who support low-income computer science students.  Kush Patel, a computer science major, and Kimia Naeiji, an information technology major, have just completed their second semester as student “professors” who teach fellow juniors and seniors how to conceptualize and execute a design for an Android app with market potential. The CodePath Android Studio course…

The idea for a service that would give buyers recommendations for products they cannot live without has won four computer science students in the Ying Wu College of Computing 1st place and a $5,000 grand prize as part of GfK’s annual NextGen Data Science Hackathon Competition. “iRecommend” is a proposed data-driven system for making FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) ecommerce experiences more personalized and relies on predictive analytics to recommend products to shoppers based on their purchase histories and individual characteristics. GfK challenged undergraduate students to develop…

Computer science undergraduates Alfred Simpson and Luis Velasquez each received $5,000 scholarships this spring from the New Jersey chapter of the Society for Information Management. The society is a professional organization for information technology executives. Scholarships are provided by the state chapter's charitable foundation. Simpson, of Jersey City, and Velasquez, from Budd Lake, both transferred to NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing after earning associate degrees at community colleges, excelling in the classroom here and demonstrating financial need. Both students also intend…

It was a global cyber attack of epic proportions — but only in the best way possible for the student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the NJIT Secure Computing Initiative. The second annual NJIT JerseyCTF competition attracted participants from around the world and exceeded the target goals — and expectations — of the organizers by more than doubling the previous year’s registrations.  A mix of student, professional and amateur cyber enthusiast teams battled to “capture the flag” by cyber hacking their way through a series of challenges to win coveted…

If you can envision a future where robots need eyeglasses to accurately deliver packages and safely perform dangerous missions, then Craig Iaboni would be your local android optician. Until then, Iaboni is pursuing an M.S. in computer science at NJIT by coding new kinds of neural networks and using cutting-edge architectures to help electronic beings better see the world around them. Iaboni originally studied political science at Hofstra University but decided he prefered programming, so he transferred to a community college and then to NJIT, where he now shares his coding skills in a…