Department of Informatics

NJIT Collaboration with Facebook Boosts Opportunities for Students

Monday, October 14, 2019
Catarina DeMatos’ experience with Facebook started with a surprise in the fall of 2018.  She walked into her CS 114 class and learned her instructor was Miki Friedmann, a Facebook software engineer and a visiting faculty member at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing. Friedmann was teaching the class as part of Facebook’s Engineer-in-Residence program, whose primary objective is to increase the number of women and minorities entering the high-tech world. The program includes many extracurricular activities ranging from technical interview preparation workshops to dedicated support...

NJIT Hosts Tech Giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft

Tuesday, October 1, 2019
NJIT students had a chance to connect with tech powerhouses Facebook, Google and Microsoft during information sessions held on campus. Sessions included tech challenges, puzzle competitions, panel discussions and résumé workshops. Reynald Benoit, ‘06, shared his journey of ending up at Google after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in web information systems at NJIT. Students were able to ask questions and seek advice. Check out the video below to see highlights of these tech giants coming to campus.  

Virtual and Augmented Reality Tech Get Real-World Use At NJIT MIXR Lab

Monday, September 23, 2019
An augmented and virtual reality educational game developed by the NJIT MIXR Laboratory, which is a dual project of the Ying Wu College of Computing and Hillier College of Architecture and Design, is being showcased at an important conference in Silicon Valley this month. The software is being demonstrated at Oculus Connect and highlights that company's latest headset while teaching children about computational logic and binary math. Informatics professor Eric Nersesian and Jessica Ross of the design department jointly lead the project along with other faculty and...

Put Away Your Smartphone to Understand Tech's Impact on Elections

Thursday, September 19, 2019
Students wishing to understand the chaos of national politics might listen to Cody Buntain, a new assistant professor in the Ying Wu College of Computing informatics department, who said it succinctly: "Look away from the phone." Buntain joined NJIT this year to teach computer ethics and to research how computing systems can be built more resilient against misinformation campaigns. The question everyone asks him, whether it's ordinary citizens or a U.S. Senate subcommittee on intelligence, is whether the 2020 election season will suffer the same debacles of outside influence as the 2016...

NJIT Experts Lead $1.5M NSF Grant to Study Social Media Moderation

Friday, September 13, 2019
NJIT researchers received an $849,024 National Science Foundation grant to help invent ways of taming the wilderness that is online content moderation. Anyone who interacts in online communities knows the pain, whether you commented on an article, calmed down friends arguing with each other on your Facebook wall, made a tough Yelp review or got censored by a forum manager. "Never read the comments" is a mantra of news writers in the 21st century, although we all secretly do. Content moderation goes back to the dawn of the printing press, explained Yvette Wohn, director of the Social...

NJIT@JerseyCity Launches with Data Science Graduate Programs

Thursday, September 12, 2019
NJIT @JerseyCity welcomed its first students on September 3, 2019. With the start of the fall semester, dozens of students embarked on graduate-level academic programs in data science at NJIT’s new location, just steps from the Exchange Place PATH station in the Waterfront district of Jersey City. NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) offers a Master’s Degree in Data Science as well as graduate certificates in Big Data and Data Mining at NJIT  @JerseyCity, with plans to add a graduate certificate in Data Visualization in spring 2020, all of which are part time programs. Non-credit...

NJIT Professor Awarded Prestigious DARPA Fellowship

Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Kurt Rohloff, a professor of computer science at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, has been awarded the prestigious DARPA Director’s Fellowship from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The $500,000 grant that comes with the Fellowship will be used to continue to advance deployability, usability and performance of open-source libraries, such as the open-source PALISADE homomorphic encryption library developed by Rohloff and his collaborators in academia and the U.S. defense industry. This enables organizations to protect their data so that computations may be...

Program started by NJIT Professor Spreading Entrepreneurial Spirit Around the World

Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Three times a year, NJIT’s Osama Eljabiri makes the trip to Medellin, Colombia, as part of his Real World Connections (RWC) program. RWC mirrors a program he started more than a decade ago in New Jersey for middle school and high school students, designed to help them innovate, create and gain real-world experience in computing skills. Eljabiri even received an award from the New Jersey Governor for the program in 2017. Eljabiri, a senior lecturer at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, was inspired to take the RWC program outside the U.S. because he believes education is a great...

NJIT Professor Receives Facebook Research Award for Data Science

Tuesday, August 13, 2019
The director of NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science has received an award from Facebook to support real-world analytics research. The research aims to develop faster learning patterns to make it easier for companies to extract actionable information from extremely large data sets. Institute Director and Distinguished Professor David Bader joined NJIT last month from Georgia Tech, where he previously served as chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering within the College of Computing. Data Science is a fast-growing area that impacts every industry. As the volume of...

How Using Virtual Reality Helps to Make Real-World Roads Safer

Friday, August 2, 2019
Making changes to roadways can be a controversial issue. Seemingly a simple matter, adding a traffic light or changing a traffic pattern can raise many questions in the impacted community. So when the North Jersey Transit Planning Authority (NJTPA) recommended replacing a few traffic lights and stop signs with roundabouts, they wanted to be prepared for the questions that would come. They had data to support the decision: statistics from the Federal Highway Administration clearly showed that when used properly, roundabouts can decrease the number of traffic accidents and reduce traffic...

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