New Jersey Institute of Technology has a new Extended Reality (XR) Laboratory on campus, where students and faculty can learn to use augmented- and virtual-reality as a learning and teaching tool. The lab is now open in Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, room 1402, across from the NJIT makerspace. It’s operated by the digital learning office and complements Ying Wu College of Computing’s MIXR Lab, where researchers study XR itself, on the third floor of the same building. “The goal is to create not just a lab, but also to keep in mind how can we support integrating XR into teaching…

Application data requirements vs. available network bandwidth has been the ongoing Battle of the Information Age, but now it appears that a truce is within reach, based on new research from NJIT Associate Professor Jacob Chakareski. Chakareski and his team, collaborating with peers from University of Massachusetts-Amherst, devised a system to make network requests err on the side of smallness and upscale the difference through a neural network running on the receiving hardware. They call it BONES — Buffer Occupancy-based Neural-Enhanced Streaming — which will be presented at the ACM…

New Jersey Institute of Technology aims to be a nexus of innovation that embraces new tech, commercializes groundbreaking research, leverages its diversity and tackles global environmental and socioeconomic challenges under a new strategic plan that extends through 2030. The plan, NJIT Makes An Innovation Nexus, identifies six priorities, spells out the university’s mission to be a leader in research, innovation and entrepreneurship, and reaffirms its core values, including collaboration, social responsibility, diversity and sustainability. The priorities define student and faculty success…

Can learning your periodic tables in chemistry class actually be fun? Kantida Nanon, a Ph.D. candidate, thinks her augmented reality (AR) solution may provide the eureka moment that every science teacher seeking to better engage students has sought for decades. Her project titled “Enhancing Chemistry Education Through AR” uses the technology to motivate better learning outcomes for students who may sometimes struggle when learning logical or fact-based information. The game-based project features an immersive experience matching atomic numbers with element names. By matching elements,…

The NJIT Information and Cybersecurity Club (NICC), the budding student run organization with a mission to give students real-time, practical experience in information security and cybersecurity, has been rising in the ranks of CTF competitions across the nation and abroad. The club recently placed third out of 12 northeast regional teams in the NCAE Cyber Games, held March 8 by the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C). NICC has gained a foothold among their cybersecurity peers since its inception two years ago as the brainchild of president and co-founder…

Jim Geller, professor in the Department of Data Science, and Fadi Deek, former NJIT provost and distinguished professor in the Department of Informatics, attended the BIOSTEC 2024 conference in Rome during February to present papers on behalf of their co-authors, which included additional faculty and Ph.D. candidates from the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) on subjects related to machine learning and ethical AI. BIOSTEC is a joint conference that brings together researchers and practitioners in areas of engineering, biology, healthcare and computing interested in theoretical advances and…

Robert Cohen, a three-time New Jersey Institute of Technology alumnus and current chair of the university’s Board of Trustees, leads a digital, robotics and enabling technology division at medical technology firm Stryker Corp. that grabbed Apple’s attention this month for its work with the new VisionPro mixed-reality headset. VisionPro headsets put screens and software directly in front of a physician’s eyes. Stryker’s Vision Pro application is called MyMako. It lets surgeons plan and simulate pre-planning for robot-assisted knee replacement operations before they happen, and view the plans…

What are the latest innovations around artificial intelligence, how will it change the way we work and what safeguards are needed to address systemic inequities? Data scientists, policy experts and the head of a state commission will examine these issues and more at “Intelligent Uses of Artificial Intelligence: Making Technology Work for All of Us,” an upcoming conference from the Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective.  The participants will tackle the issues in three sessions, each with…

The New York meetup of the Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG NY), an annual conference that covers research broadly related to machine learning on graphs, was hosted on February 29 and March 2 by the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at their NJIT@JerseyCity location, on the premises of the NJIT-BGU Institute of Future Technologies (IFT). The event was spearheaded by Ali Parviz, a Ph.D. student at NJIT, along with Ph.D. students from Cornell and MIT. The LoG meetups are local events held in various national and international locations to foster discussions between students, professors,…

Artificial intelligence, data science and the emerging field of quantum computing are among the hottest research topics in computing overall. David Bader, a distinguished professor in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing and director of the university’s Institute for Data Science, shared his thoughts on big-picture questions about each area. Bader is known globally for his innovative work in the history and cutting-edge of computing. In 2023 you were recognized by the Computer History Museum for developing a Linux supercomputer using commodity hardware. Your approach is now the dominant…