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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...
Geek of the Week - Joe Landolina
College Times, April 9th, 2013
This weeks Geek of the Week is NYU student Joe Landolina, who has invented a gel that stops victims from bleeding almost instantly. This is quite similar to Medi-Gel from the Mass Effect game series. This guy is gonna be rich. (read more...)
Big Data, a Big Bang exploding into the business of Finance
By Irene Aldridge, Huffington Post, April 5th, 2013
Big Data is the new Big Bang. It is a buzzword that has exploded into every discipline that process expansive data sets. Computing, medical sciences, biology, and advertising are adjusting their methodologies to harness the ever expanding processing power that is available. In finance, the data is...
NYU to open videogame center in Brooklyn
By Ashley Mastronardi, MyFoxNY, April 5th, 2013
NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) - New York University will soon transform 40,000 square feet of a building in Brooklyn. The soul of videogames like Super Mario Bros. has become etched into our collective conscience. Now NYU is taking these familiar videogames to school. The university is putting nine of its...
Can you hear me now? Cellphone turns 40
By Nidhi Subbaraman, NBC News, April 4th, 2013
Forty years ago, Martin Cooper, a VP at Motorola, made history by placing the very first cellphone call. Appropriately enough, he called his rival at AT&T's Bell Labs. Thirty-three years later, a slightly more theatrical Steve Jobs dialed a Starbucks cafe in San Francisco to order 4,000...
Interview: NYU Wireless Director Theodore Rappaport Addresses Millimeter Waves And Engineering Education
By Lou Frenzel, Electronic Design, April 3rd, 2013
As the volume of wireless communications grows, two challenges are emerging. First, how will we manage all of this traffic? Second, where will we find the engineers who will solve these next-generation problems? Professor Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport, an experienced researcher in wireless...
Data-based artwork eases analysis with visual representation
By Madeleine Overturf, Washington Square News, April 3rd, 2013
A new field of art that combines statistical data and creative presentation is on the rise, allowing viewers to connect with information in an innovative way. “We are drowning in information, and we can’t keep up,” said R. Luke DuBois, assistant professor of integrated digital...
NYU undergrad invents gel to instantly stop mass bleeding
By Stephanie Haven, USA Today, April 2nd, 2013
New York University junior Joe Landolina, 20, has invented a gel that instantly stops mass internal and external bleeding. Available for veterinary practices this summer, Landolina first pitched the concept in 2011 as the sole freshman in a NYU business competition against MBA and PhD candidates....
A, C, F will take you to Brooklyn Tech Triangle and NYU's new video game institute
By Alex Dalenberg, Upstart Business Journal, April 2nd, 2013
Downtown Brooklyn has been considered the flabby side of the ballyhooed Brooklyn Tech Triangle, which also includes the Brooklyn Navy Yard and DUMBO, but the area has scored a big time one-up in the form a new video game institute. A 40,000 square-foot Media and Video Games Network—MAGNET...
Wanted: The $1,000-a-Year Education
By Jerry Hultin, University Business, April 1st, 2013
A father I know asked his 9th-grader how his math grades had jumped from C to A-, when prior personal tutoring hadn’t helped. The reply: “Dad, it’s easy! I taught myself using Khan Academy.” Thanks to an innovative flow of new technology, the eagerness of young entrepreneurs...
