Ying Wu College of Computing

New Jersey court officials are turning to NJIT’s Grace Wang, director of the university’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, as their technology expert for a new committee to help judges and lawyers understand AI’s role in the legal system. “Artificial intelligence is a tool that we are still learning about, and while it holds the potential for great opportunities, it can also create significant challenges within the legal community,” State Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner stated. The committee will “examine potential policies and practices in numerous areas, including...

A new committee aims to accelerate gender equity among faculty members at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The Women Faculty Advisory Committee, chaired by Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, will hold peer forums to examine key issues based on the testimony of junior faculty members. It also intends to poll women faculty to gather quantitative data. Both will fuel an action plan and create a foundation for measuring progress toward faculty gender diversity.  Women are particularly underrepresented among full-time faculty at NJIT, most starkly at the level of professor, where they represent...

Nautical nonsense is something they wished, and it was granted at this year’s edition of HackNJIT, where almost 400 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology and many other schools completed 63 ocean-themed projects. A game called Treasure Snap — built by Peter Akdemir, Dustin La, Gabriel Pascual and Joshua Quizon — was the top NJIT finisher, second overall, for their treasure-hunting software where anyone can upload an image and its GPS coordinates, and then players must find the same location, take a picture and upload it themselves. If the location and image are a match, then you...

Researchers at NJIT and Universidad Carlos III of Madrid wanted to know if mixed-reality games could be improved by handing control to artificial intelligence software in the form of conversational language applications — it turns out they can, but the results may put players in danger. The question stems from an annual Halloween tradition of serious-yet-silly experiments by Assistant Professor Niccolo Pescetelli, of NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts humanities department, researcher Manuel Cebrian of Carlos III de Madrid’s statistics department and Santander Big Data Institute,...