Online dating has become a way of life for folks looking for love in the freewheeling, tap-and-swipe culture that dominates the 21st century. According to the Pew Research Center, online dating sites or mobile dating app usage by 18-to 24-year-olds has increased nearly threefold since 2013, while usage by 55-to 64-year-olds has doubled. As scores of singles wade through a crowded market, teeming with Tinders, Hornets, Bumbles, Hinges, Queeps and Mocos (yes, those are all actual dating apps), graduate computer science students in Ying Wu College of Computing at NJIT have invented a…

College Factual, a leading source of college data analytics and insights, has ranked NJIT’s information systems program the best in the United States.  The program was ranked 1 out of 333 nationwide and ranked 1 out of 14 in New Jersey, making it the best IS program in the state and the country for the second year in a row. Housed within Ying Wu College of Computing, which boasts the largest computing program in the tri-state region, NJIT’s IS division recently moved into the newly formed Department of Informatics. With a strong emphasis on technical application, the department…

A Starr is Born It’s said that the most revolutionary ideas are often the result of spontaneous creativity. For Starr Roxanne Hiltz (Distinguished Professor Emerita of information systems at NJIT), a most-defining moment of genius struck in 1977 while spending a year as a National Science Foundation (NSF) faculty fellowship awardee at Princeton University. Professor Suzanne Keller (Princeton University’s first tenured female professor), who led a graduate seminar on the sociology of architecture, asked Hiltz to design an ideal classroom for the 21st century. What resulted were sketches of…

For over a century, NJIT has produced ambitious leaders. Highlanders are encouraged to be boundary-pushing citizens with a strong sense of global awareness, ushered into the professional world to make a name for themselves. But for distinguished alumnus Ying Wu, the path to success led right back to where he started. On May 16, NJIT trustees, overseers, Provost Fadi Deek, College of Computing Sciences (CCS) Dean Marek Runsinkiewicz, colleagues, students and friends assembled in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, where President Joel S. Bloom christened CCS the Ying Wu College of…

If you’re thinking about studying cybersecurity or already working in the tech field and want a career change, now’s the time to act. 8: cybersecurity’s ranking on U.S. News and World Report’s list of the 100 best jobs for 2015 36.5%: the rate at which the cybersecurity profession is projected to grow by 2022 209,000: number of vacant cybersecurity jobs in 2015 in the U.S $88,890: median yearly pay for an information security analyst 1 to 2 million: number of global cybersecurity jobs expected to go unfilled by 2019 Cybersecurity education is a strategic priority at NJIT, which is home…