College computing ccs

Long before social networks, instant messengers, web forums, Internet Relay Chat, AOL, Compuserve, and dial-up bulletin board systems, there was EIES – Electronic Information Exchange System, pronounced like the word eyes – developed here at NJIT in the 1970s.

Hundreds of college students from throughout the Northeast will descend on NJIT on Oct. 27 to participate in a prestigious international programming competition. 

The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), will host its Greater New York Region competition on NJIT’s campus this Sunday. Winners of the regional competition will advance to the national finals to be held next year in Atlanta.

Five monitors adorn George Eliopoulos' desk — he tried six and said it was too many — where the security analyst is responsible for protecting NJIT computer systems from malicious hackers.

Virtual machines are an important kind of software, invented in the 1960s but only popular since the 2000s, that enables servers to run several operating systems simultaneously — but lately they're facing an efficiency problem that NJIT professor Xiaoning Ding believes he can address.

Catarina DeMatos’ experience with Facebook started with a surprise in the fall of 2018. 

She walked into her CS 114 class and learned her instructor was Miki Friedmann, a Facebook software engineer and a visiting faculty member at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing.

They headed out at 8 a.m. on a Friday in September for a whirlwind excursion of Manhattan-based startups, accelerators, incubators and venture capital firms. And after traversing the city, between midtown and downtown, they returned to NJIT at day’s end with a firsthand view and better understanding of the world of entrepreneurship.

It was a timely inspiration that garnered two Honors College students a first-place hackathon win.

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.

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.

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.