New Jersey Institute of Technology leads U.S. universities in teaching programming languages, according to a new survey by HackerRank, which sells products to help human resources departments evaluate software developers. NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing prepares students to program in Python, Java, JavaScript and the REST application programming interface for web services, better than other top performers including those close to New Jersey, such as Columbia University and Rochester Institute of Technology, the survey found. “HackerRank confirms what we already know,” said Craig Gotsman…

NJIT this month won its second grant from the National Science Foundation's CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, in which students studying toward master's degrees receive up to three years of free tuition and generous stipends, in exchange for working at government cybersecurity jobs after graduation. During the first grant, which provided $4 million from 2016-2021, Ying Wu College of Computing accepted 33 students through its Secure Computing Initiative. All of them landed jobs protecting government computer systems in a range of local, state and federal organizations,…

Software behaving badly, especially when it corrupts, exposes or loses someone's data, is the motivation for new research from NJIT Prof. Iulian Neamtiu on how event-based applications go astray and what can be done to fix them. Such applications are often found in smartphones, websites and Internet-connected home products, which rely on expected results from their middleware and operating systems — but sometimes the results are unexpected, causing anything from simple annoyances to catastrophic errors. To help understand and solve these problems, Neamtiu is sharing a four-year, $1.2…

Online commerce giant Amazon recently acquired Wickr, a secure messaging company founded at NJIT in 2011 that's known for its focus on corporate and military customers, and will integrate the technology into its Amazon Web Services portfolio. Wickr's Highlander roots run deep, as most of its early employees are affiliated with Ying Wu College of Computing, including co-founder, alumnus, and senior university lecturer Robert Statica, adjunct instructor Chris Howell and alumna Kara Coppa. "Wickr is a product of Newark and New Jersey," said Statica, a senior university lecturer in informatics…

Developers of live-streaming software could help block online harassment of women and LGBTQ people, based on new research from NJIT's informatics department where students and faculty studied the common types of harassment and interviewed 25 streamers to understand coping strategies. The most common types of harassment include body shaming, condescending, hate speech, sexual comments and stalking, while the most common coping mechanisms include automated moderation, emotion management, humor and therapy, explained computer science major Jira Uttarapong, who anticipates graduating in 2022.…

With computing playing an ever-increasing role in how companies operate, and the high demand for skilled computing professionals, people with no previous college or work experience in computing are applying to Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) to pursue graduate degree in one of the college’s M.S. programs. Thanks to its several graduate certificate programs, YWCC students new to academic coursework in computing are able to acquire the core skills and experience that they will need to be successful in their chosen M.S. degree program. When Roberto Rivera, a Senior Research Analyst at NJ…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but walkability could be evaluated by algorithms, according to new research from an unconventional professor in NJIT's Hillier College of Architecture and Design. "Most people assume that architects have some tool to visualize or analyze how people will use the building. It's not true, they don't," explained Assistant Professor Mathew Schwartz. Architects might anticipate walking paths, guess natural routes based on experience, or quiz the future occupants about their intentions, but the idea of using software to calculate the physiological metrics of…

Building on existing academic and research strengths, NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing has created a new Department of Data Science where students will learn the deep underlying technologies driving this field and its broad spectrum of applications. The college has taken significant steps in recent years to position itself as a leader in data science education and research. It already offers an M.S. in Data Science, as well as graduate-level certificate programs in Big Data, Data Visualization and Data Mining. Starting in the Fall 2021 semester, the college will offer a B.S…

Research conducted by Ioannis Koutis, associate professor of computer science at NJIT, may change how manufacturers think about logic circuit design and increasing circuit processing speeds compared to state-of-the-art methods. When a manufacturer designs a logic circuit, it is necessary, particularly as circuits become larger, to partition the circuit into smaller pieces to accommodate space constraints on the physical circuit. Using graph partitioning algorithms, manufacturers divide a circuit into two or more roughly equal-sized parts. A critical consideration during this process is how…

Music lovers know that there is nothing like a live performance, but the COVID-19 pandemic inspired Newark's New Jersey Symphony Orchestra to challenge Ying Wu College of Computing faculty and students to investigate better ways to present virtual concerts using mixed-reality technology. The orchestra's goal is to find better solutions than early-pandemic attempts at virtual live concerts, where each musician simultaneously performed their role from a safe location through a virtual meeting system such as Zoom, leading to underwhelming results because of network latency and lack of…