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World Science Fest hosting 'JS Joust,' 'Space Cruiser,' and more life-size games this weekend
By Joshua Kopstein, TheVerge.com, June 1st, 2012
The World Science Festival in New York City is getting its hands on some of indie gaming's biggest experiments this weekend. Previously exhibited site-specific game installations like Mega GIRP, the giant Twister-style video game from QWOP creator Bennett Foddy, and Space Cruiser, Ivan Safrin...
Polytech Researchers in Brooklyn Build Robotic Super Fish to Save Other Fish From Danger
By Erin Durkin, NY Daily News, May 31st, 2012
What a fish tale! Brooklyn brainiacs are building a robotic super fish that would play savior to its aquatic brethren, leading schools of fish away from danger. Prof. Maurizio Porfiri and his team of researchers at NYU’s Polytechnic Institute have built a school of some 30 plastic critters...
Get your geek on: World Science Festival lands in Brooklyn
By Mary Frost, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 31st, 2012
BROOKLYN — The World Science Festival geek-fest — promoted as “premier science event in the United States” — takes place in New York City through June 3, and on Saturday two sites in Brooklyn will be packed with interactive science activities, games and performances....
'No Quarter': building modern arcade games at NYU
By Joshua Kopstein, The Verge, May 23rd, 2012
If the anesthetized, family-oriented digs of the recently reopened Chinatown Fair are any indication, the state of the American arcade in the year 2012 is a dismal one. But at NYU's annual No Quarter exhibition, the communal comforts of yesterday's game spaces live on apart from the...
Interview with Nasir Memon
Forensic Interviews, May 23rd, 2012
We talk with Nasir Memon, the co-founder of Digital Assembly, on photo analysis and his company, author of the famous photo forensics tool. Nasir Memon is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Information Systems and Internet Security (ISIS)...
Q&A with Scott Stedman: Northside Festival Adds the Entrepreneur
By Georgia Kral, Thirteen.org, May 23rd, 2012
The Northside Festival is pleased to offer MetroFocus readers a 25 percent discount on admission to the Entrepreneurship Festival. Visit the Northside website to purchase tickets, and enter this code: WNET (case sensitive). The deal ends June 8. When Scott Stedman first considered a festival on...
iPads could pick up on unique biological traits in individual hand gestures
By Dawn Lim, Nextgov, May 22nd, 2012
Tablets and iPads could soon pick up on unique biological traits of individuals who swipe and rotate their palms across touch screens -- a development that could lead to better methods of authenticating users. A scientist at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University is working on the...
New York Polytechnic honours Sam Pitroda
By IANS, NY Daily News, May 19th, 2012
New York, May 19 — Polytechnic Institute of New York University, America's second-oldest private engineering school, has conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering on Sam Pitroda, adviser to Indian Prime Minster Manmohan Singh. Delivering the keynote address at the school's...
From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz
By John Tierney, The New York Times, May 19th, 2012
The walls have come tumbling down in offices everywhere, but the cubicle dwellers keep putting up new ones. They barricade themselves behind file cabinets. They fortify their partitions with towers of books and papers. Or they follow an “evolving law of technology etiquette,” as...
Sam Pitroda receives Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa, from NYU-Poly; says technology is a great social leveler
APN News, May 19th, 2012
Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) President Jerry M. Hultin, the Board of Trustees, faculty and staff celebrated the academic journey of nearly one thousand undergraduate and graduate students at the 157th NYU-Poly commencement held on May 18th, 2012 at the Avery Fisher Hall...
