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MTA Holds First Ever Hackathon at NYU-Poly
Downtown Brooklyn, May 10th, 2013
After nearly 30 hours of through-the-night, hunchbacked coding, programming, and developing, the judges of the MTA and AT&T-sponsored AppQuest hackathon were ready to announce their winners. 17 teams of developers had taken part in the weekend-long competition at the NYU-Poly campus, each...
Start-Up Brooklyn: I Just Got Funding, Now What?
By Sonja Sharp, DNAinfo New York, May 7th, 2013
BROOKLYN — Once, there were Carnegies, Rockefellers and Goulds. Now, there is Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and Google. New York City has long been a dreamscape of absurd instant wealth, but while fur has lost its sheen and steel has oxidized, the allure of easy money has yet to fade for the...
App Developers Hunker Down In Brooklyn To Make Transit Service Better
CBS New York, May 4th, 2013
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Hundreds of app developers and other tech whizzes gathered in Brooklyn this weekend for a contest to create apps for transit riders. The MTA AT&T NYU-Poly Hackathon contest and collaboration began Saturday at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in...
MTA Mobile App Hackathon at NYU-Poly
By Jose Martinez, NY1, May 2nd, 2013
The MTA and AT&T collaborated to conduct a Hackathon last week at NYU-POLY bringing developers and designers together to build mobile apps that make millions of straphangers' commutes easier. Click here to watch video
Colleges with biggest bang for the buck
By Melanie Hicken, CNN, May 2nd, 2013
30-year return on investment: $1,728,000 Avg. total college cost: $214,300 Avg. annual scholarships and grants: $23,534 Graduation rate: 54% One of the nation's oldest private engineering schools, Polytechnic Institute of New York University offers a technology-focused education in...
25 universities with the best return on investment
By Lynn O'Shaughnessy, CBS News, May 1st, 2013
(MoneyWatch) If you want to attend the college providing graduates with the best return on their investment, take a look at Harvey Mudd College. Students who receive a bachelor's degree from Harvey Mudd, an elite engineering and liberal arts college in Southern California, should earn roughly $...
Hacker U: Program prepares students, hackers for cybersecurity jobs
By Jake Pearson, Courier Press, April 28th, 2013
NEW YORK — Every week, a group of teenagers and 20-somethings dressed in hoodies gets together in a tiny room on a college campus and plug in their laptops. They turn up pulsing electronic funk music, order pizza and begin furiously hacking into computer networks. But they’re not...
NYU-Poly dean explains NYU School of Engineering
By Nicole Brown, Washington Square News, April 25th, 2013
The merging of NYU and the Polytechnic Institute of NYU to transform NYU-Poly into the NYU School of Engineering has been a work in progress since 2008. It is expected to be completed for the 2014-2015 academic year. Newly appointed president of NYU-Poly and dean of the future School of Engineering...
NYU-Poly teams up to open science program for middle school
By Fay Lin, Washington Square News, April 24th, 2013
In an effort to provide more opportunities for K-12 students to tackle challenging coursework in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, the Polytechnic Institute at NYU has partnered with the Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF) to expand NYU-Poly’s Science of Smart...
