It was a timely inspiration that garnered two Honors College students a first-place hackathon win. With the upcoming election season expected to be fraught with doctored videos of famous figures aiming to influence voters — known as deepfakes — Aarati Srikumar and George Aboudiwan, along with two teammates from other schools, developed a web-based solution to detect such deception and provide “a level of protection and reality for users.” Dubbed DeFake, the web browser extension and application employs machine learning to analyze and determine if online videos are fake or have been…

Stop in any Starbucks or McDonalds and you’ll see the signs by the credit card reader: Google Pay accepted here, Apple Pay accepted, or tap to pay.  Visit a vendor at a farmers market and you’ll find many accept credit or debit cards using an attachment on their smartphone from Square or Clover. The mobile payment world is a crowded marketplace, but Nemi Shah, a computer science student at the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), sees a still-growing ecosystem and an unmet opportunity for some businesses – specifically small business owners in the service industry who still rely on…

NJIT students had a chance to connect with tech powerhouses Facebook, Google and Microsoft during information sessions held on campus. Sessions included tech challenges, puzzle competitions, panel discussions and résumé workshops. Reynald Benoit, ‘06, shared his journey of ending up at Google after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in web information systems at NJIT. Students were able to ask questions and seek advice. Check out the video below to see highlights of these tech giants coming to campus.  

There were no digital computers at NJIT, known as Newark College of Engineering, in 1960. This was not a unique situation. Most computers in 1960 were room-sized beasts performing logic through vacuum tubes. A few companies made smaller machines, when small was a relative term meaning something about the size of a Mini Cooper. Large universities at that time might lease a mainframe, but most organizations including Newark College of Engineering instead purchased punch-card accounting systems for administrative use, along with mechanical terminals called teletypes to access…

Students wishing to understand the chaos of national politics might listen to Cody Buntain, a new assistant professor in the Ying Wu College of Computing informatics department, who said it succinctly: "Look away from the phone." Buntain joined NJIT this year to teach computer ethics and to research how computing systems can be built more resilient against misinformation campaigns. The question everyone asks him, whether it's ordinary citizens or a U.S. Senate subcommittee on intelligence, is whether the 2020 election season will suffer the same debacles of outside influence as the 2016…

According to NJIT Career Development Services’ most recent annual report, almost one-fifth of undergrads from the Class of 2018 who reported full-time employment indicated an NJIT career fair as their source. That figure certainly demonstrates the value of students attending the fair, to both mingle with prospective employers and leave a lasting impression on recruiters. But vital to the mix in landing a position is preparedness. With the Fall 2019 Career Fair just around the corner — Wednesday, Oct. 2, at NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center — these Highlanders, who scored internships through…

NJIT researchers received an $849,024 National Science Foundation grant to help invent ways of taming the wilderness that is online content moderation. Anyone who interacts in online communities knows the pain, whether you commented on an article, calmed down friends arguing with each other on your Facebook wall, made a tough Yelp review or got censored by a forum manager. "Never read the comments" is a mantra of news writers in the 21st century, although we all secretly do. Content moderation goes back to the dawn of the printing press, explained Yvette Wohn, director of the Social…

NJIT @JerseyCity welcomed its first students on September 3, 2019. With the start of the fall semester, dozens of students embarked on graduate-level academic programs in data science at NJIT’s new location, just steps from the Exchange Place PATH station in the Waterfront district of Jersey City. NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) offers a Master’s Degree in Data Science as well as graduate certificates in Big Data and Data Mining at NJIT  @JerseyCity, with plans to add a graduate certificate in Data Visualization in spring 2020, all of which are part time programs. Non-credit data…

One is studying computer science at NJIT, the other biomedical engineering, but they both join the university as Mayor’s Honors Scholars. Samara and Samantha Augustin — freshmen at Ying Wu College of Computing and Newark College of Engineering, respectively — are among the first recipients of the full scholarship, a partnership of NJIT, the city of Newark and the Newark Board of Education to create a pipeline between Newark Public Schools and NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College. Graduates of Science Park High School, the Augustins were involved there in a variety of extracurricular…

Finding Keith Williams in a classroom isn’t unusual. He’s taught at NJIT for years, but this summer he taught somewhere quite different. Williams traveled more than 7,400 miles to teach at ZCAS University in Zambia, invited by the Zambian government to teach a course on mobile technology and set up a degree program to help students develop software solutions. At ZCAS, Williams taught a software development workshop called Progressive Web Apps, designed to teach students to create mobile apps. Participants in the workshop included university staff and students. The course itself was…