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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
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...
Centipede creator sees lack of diversity in the game industry
Gamasutra, April 19th, 2013
Industry veteran Dona Bailey paid a visit to NYU-Poly's Game Innovation Lab recently to talk about her experience in Atari's coin-op division in the early 1980s, where she co-developed Centipede along with Ed Logg in 1981. The talk was brief and touched on Bailey's time in the industry...
A Hacker Haven Grows in Brooklyn
IEEE Career Alert, April 17th, 2013
Part of the path to a degree in cybersecurity at Polytechnic Institute of New York University, in Brooklyn, is Hack Night, a weekly event where professors, grad students and undergrads hunker down in a tiny room on the school’s Brooklyn campus to hack into computer networks. The aim: honing...
5 Questions for Carmen Wong Ulrich – Women and Finance
By LRASIMAS, Council for Economic Education, April 17th, 2013
Carmen Wong Ulrich is President and Co-Founder of ALTA Wealth Management and Assistant Industry Professor in the department of Finance and Risk Engineering at NYU Polytech. She is the former co-creator and host of the only national, daily personal finance television show, “On the Money,...
The Students Are Honing Their Hacking Skills With Weekly Hack Night Events
Digital Triad, April 13th, 2013
New York, NY -- They're hackers in training. Every Wednesday evening about two dozen teenagers and 20-somethings gather in a New York City computer lab and start hacking. But they're not shadowy criminals. They're students training to become "white-hat" hackers, cybersecurity...
Quotations of the day
The Washington Post, April 12th, 2013
“We don’t want a country where abortion is simply outlawed. We want a country where it isn’t even considered.” — Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., in a speech to The Susan B. Anthony List, a group which seeks to elect women opposed to abortion rights. “It’s the new...
NYC Students, Hackers Train for Cybersecurity Jobs
By Jake Pearson, ABC News, April 11th, 2013
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 shadowy criminals: They...
ThinkEco Wins International Award
April 10th, 2013
ATHENS, Ohio – The National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) named ThinkEco, the developer of cloud-based energy-efficiency and demand-response solutions, as the 2013 Outstanding Incubator Graduate in the technology category today during NBIA’s International Conference on Business...
NYU-Poly appoints a physicist as its new president
Wall Street Journal, April 10th, 2013
NEW YORK — A distinguished physicist has been named the new president of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. New York University President Dr. John Sexton said Wednesday that as president, Dr. Katepalli Sreenivasan (ka-teh-PAH-lee sree-nih-VAH-sehn) will oversee the school's...
