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As students return to campus this fall, NJIT and universities around the country face the challenge of adhering to COVID-19 preventative measures such as social distancing and mask use, while also maximizing the usage of the available resources and learning spaces on campus. One of the techniques deployed at NJIT is converged learning, where only a fraction of the students enrolled in a course are physically present in a classroom while the remainder participate online.

Three master's degrees and five graduate certificate programs are now available to Ying Wu College of Computing students in the NJIT​ @​JerseyCity location.

Zambia, a country in south-central Africa, is rich in natural resources but significantly lacking in technological and educational resources. This has made it difficult for the country to boost economic development, alleviate poverty and improve quality of life.

Enter Keith Williams, NJIT university lecturer in informatics, who is helping the Zambian government build the nation’s IT infrastructure from the ground up — setting up and delivering technological education at local universities as well as reengineering the government online.

Studying the evolution and function of online shopping communities could teach computer science researchers about online community-making in general, experts at NJIT said in a series of recent papers. 

The papers cover the methods and motivations of how shoppers interact with each other online, and examine such communities depend on members’ participation and contributions, according to doctoral student Yu Xu and Assistant Professor Michael Lee, both of the informatics department of the Ying Wu College of Computing.

A new plan to recruit and retain more women as computer science majors is beginning in earnest this summer at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing.

Informatics department Assistant Professor Hai Phan is studying how to protect privacy in mobile applications that track a user's behavior.

Phan received a $100,000 grant from a major technology company for the project, Detecting Human Behaviors from Smartphones Using Federated Machine Learning in the Wild.

The healthcare process of identifying who traveled close to contagious patients, known as contact tracing, typically assumes a lack of privacy — but NJIT cybersecurity expert Kurt Rohloff said his software is a good match to fix this.

Chris Wiggins, chief data scientist at The New York Times, presented on his field Feb. 25 at the Jersey City branch of the Ying Wu College of Computing.

As a major in architecture or any other field, you absolutely must learn computer programming and other high technology to be a compelling job applicant in the 2020s, implored Sarah Almukhtar, a Hiller College of Architecture and Design alumna ('10, B.Arch.) who spoke here last night about her data visualization work for The New York Times.

Leaders of NJIT's esports team, which is among the most successful collegiate videogame groups in the region and one of the top programs nationwide at games such as Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch, said they see the next few years as a time of critical evolution for their two-year-old club and for their field overall.