Ying Wu College of Computing

TEDxNJIT Event on November 8

Tuesday, October 9, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a TEDxNJIT event Nov. 8, 2018 in the Jim Wise Theatre on the NJIT campus and via an accompanying live simulcast available to viewers worldwide. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is themed “ReFraming” and will feature leaders from business, academia and the arts addressing a range of topics. Speakers will explore assumptions that limit solutions to social problems and broadening perspectives to find new opportunities for cross cutting approaches. They will cover a range of disciplines including arts,...

Sarnoff Symposium Comes to NJIT

Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Now in its 39th year, the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium is the premier forum in telecom and related topics for researchers, engineers and business executives in the Northeast.   “It has a long history as a place where industry leaders can share their insights with academia on state-of-the-art research, where the industry is going and the challenges they face,” said Grace (Guiling) Wang, co-chair of this year’s symposium and professor of computer science at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC). More than 30 speakers participated in the two-day event. Topics...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: City Resilience

Monday, October 8, 2018
In the face of both natural and man-made threat to city infrastructure, greater pushes have been made toward the planning and design of “resilient cities” — cities positioned to protect and enhance urban life through development of components necessary to respond to terrorism, earthquakes, coastal flooding, solar flares, as well as infrastructure adoption of sustainable energy. In their upcoming NJIT Technology and Society Forum presentation, two experts who have collaborated for the last 15 years on the topic of city resilience — Hani Nassif, professor at Rutgers University, and Kaan...

Biomedical Engineer Tara Alvarez is Poised to Win a Breakthrough Award. Help Her by Voting Now!

Thursday, September 27, 2018
Please support one of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) pioneering researchers in her pursuit of a highly competitive award for work on concussion diagnosis and VISION therapy. Voting ends Tuesday at 9 a.m. The Researcher: Tara Alvarez, professor of biomedical engineering and founder of NJIT’s Vision and Neural Engineering Laboratory, who has designed a novel test and therapy device for a vision disorder that has potential as a biomarker for concussion. The device, which employs virtual reality, is being tested in hospitals across the country and Alvarez...

Teaching the Teachers

Friday, September 21, 2018
The school year is back in swing and teachers in New Jersey have returned to the classroom with new computer science skills acquired this summer at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing. The teachers, from three school districts, were students this summer at NJIT in a CS 100 course titled “Python Programming and Introduction to Computer Science.” They attended class side-by-side with NJIT students. This is the third year NJIT has offered a CS 100 level course to high school teachers free of charge, providing an opportunity to freshen and update their skills during summer break. The...

NJIT Rises, Ranks in Top 15 Percent "Best Institution" Nationwide by College Factual

Thursday, September 20, 2018
College Factual, a leading source of higher education analytics and insights, has ranked NJIT in the top 15 percent nationwide in the overall “Best Institution” category for 2019, a 61-place jump compared to 2018 rankings. NJIT is now ranked 251 out of a 1,779 institutions nationwide, and 5 out of 33 in N.J., a jump of three positions in the state. The “Best Institution” category looks at several specific factors to generate their score, including: student body caliber, educational resources, degree completion and post-graduation earnings. "NJIT's appreciating reputation is a...

NJIT and Essex County College Sign Joint Academic Agreement

Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Associate degree students from Essex County College (ECC) are now able to seamlessly transfer into appropriate and/or corresponding bachelor’s degree programs at NJIT.    On Sept. 17, 2018, the neighboring institutions in Newark signed a three-year joint academic agreement designed to provide priority transfer into NJIT to qualified students enrolled at ECC. The agreement, effective fall 2018, serves to strengthen the academic and student support partnership between NJIT and ECC. Essex County Schools of Technology (ECST) are also participating in the agreement to benefit high...

NJIT Faculty Expert Yvette Wohn on Curating Safe Spaces Online

Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Live streaming social media platforms such as Twitch are shrinking the distance between broadcasters and their viewers, who watch them and comment in real time. But these interactive forums also bring added layers of intensity to online bullying: trolls who post negative comments can observe the impact of their nastiness instantaneously on the shocked faces of streamers. “When you post something online and someone comments, you don’t have to look. But there is no way for people who are streaming to shield themselves from what others are saying,” notes Yvette Wohn, an assistant...

Transforming Newark One Classroom, One Conversation, One Carrot at a Time

Sunday, September 9, 2018
As towering cranes and forklifts shuttled brightly colored containers from ships to trucks in Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal last week, Cameron Bennett ’22 was also busy inside the port loading human-scale cargo to go back out to sea. Bennett, one of the 1065 freshmen to disperse across the Newark metro area on NJIT’s annual First Year Service Day, was packing beautiful hand-knit hats and scarves and toiletries into hand-sewn bags at the Seamen’s Church Institute, a nearly 200-year-old organization serving mariners dispatched across the globe. He was struck to learn that...

NJIT Partners With Facebook to Increase Diversity in Tech Workforce

Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Second-year students taking computer science (CS) classes at NJIT will learn to resize dynamic arrays, balance binary trees and implement hash tables from a software engineer employed by the largest social networking company in the world. In 2016, Facebook launched an Engineer-In-Residence (EIR) program to increase the number of minorities entering the technology workforce. The program’s comprehensive framework includes Facebook-sponsored extracurricular activities; semester-long technical interview prep workshops; dedicated support from a Facebook program manager and recruiter — and the...

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