Department of Informatics

"Why not both?" is a social media meme, but it's also the proposed answer to a problem for the designers of virtual reality systems, who generally must rely on wireless signals that are reliable but not as fast as needed. It's already hard enough to make virtual reality look realistic, without choppiness or delays, when a user is sitting still and plugged into a wired network, NJIT Associate Professor Jacob Chakareski explained. But making a system that's wireless, adding multiple users and incorporating six degrees of freedom — where a person controls the pitch, roll and yaw of their head...

The world is at Samuel Carlos’ fingertips. Since coming NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College out of high school with an associates degree in math and computer science, he’s interned at Amazon, Google, and Facebook. He’s since added a third major - history with a focus on the history of computer science and is now planning to study Mandarin and Southeast Asian technology and politics at National Taiwan University in the spring and summer of 2022.  Carlos is the recipient of the 2021 National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship, which funds students to study...

A new course about the history of information systems will be offered by Ying Wu College of Computing this spring, where students will learn about everything from calculation methods of ancient and medieval times, through early visions of mechanical computer architecture in the Industrial Age, straight through to the pioneers of 20th-century solid-state electronics and digital networks. By studying history, students will gain a broader context of modern computing and will be better prepared to understand and make informed decisions in their careers as software developers, system...

E-commerce sites, military planners and streaming media providers all want to analyze multiple sources of live data as quickly as possible, a holy grail of data science which is about to become possible through new software called StreamWare, from researchers at Harvard University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California. "What we're trying to do is reimagine data science," said David Bader, distinguished professor and director of NJIT's Institute for Data Science. Bader, along with Harvard professor David Brooks and USC Viterbi School of Engineering...