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Seven Places to Start a Tech Company in New York City
By Alexander Hotz, blogs.wsj.com, September 29th, 2010
Like many entrepreneurs, Andres Blank, the COO and co-founder of Pixable, a business that lets Facebook users print photo books of their Facebook pictures, started running his company out of his apartment. During the day the space was adequate, but the workday came to an awkward halt when his...
October 2010: Best in college homepage design
By Dave Mulder, www.davemulder.com, September 29th, 2010
Higher education websites, as a rule, still suck. We extensively copy each other, rarely innovate, and then hire a student to help with maintenance. It’s okay to admit it, we’re all in the same boat. Though much has been made about users landing on your site through deep links, the homepage...
Bone-Crushing Experiments Yield Better Protective Gear
By Hallie Deaktor Kapner, Special to Polytechnic Institute of New York University, LiveScience.com, September 24th, 2010
No sample is safe in Nikhil Gupta's Composite Materials and Mechanics Lab at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Whether it's a small nugget of rabbit bone or a piece of industrial protective foam, all are bound for a custom-built compression machine designed to study how materials...
Mayor Bloomberg and Toronto Mayor David Miller Announce that Mayor Bloomberg Has Been Elected Chair of the C40 Climate Leadership Group
nyc.gov, September 21st, 2010
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Toronto Mayor David Miller today announced that the C40 Steering Committee has elected Mayor Bloomberg to serve as chair of the C40 Climate Leadership Group, an association of major cities around the world committed to reducing carbon emissions and slowing climate...
Girls from Urban Assembly Institute and NYU-Poly Vie for Pepsi Refresh Grant
News12 Brooklyn, September 20th, 2010
Since 2008 Polytechnic Institute of NYU has been helping students at the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women get excited about and proficient in science, math, and engineering. News 12 Brooklyn checks in on the students and their hopes to win a Pepsi Refresh grant for iPads...
Man Vs. Machine: The New Kings Of Wall Street-Video
CNBC, September 15th, 2010
CNBC's Scott Wapner takes a look at high-frequency trading and programs like NYU-Poly's master's in financial engineering that are preparing a new breed of financial players with non-financial backgrounds (around 3:00 in the clip). Look for recent graduate Allan Maymin who says, "The future of Wall...
Man Vs. Machine: The New Kings Of Wall Street
By Scott Wapner, CNBC, September 13th, 2010
The rapid-fire growth of high-frequency trading, HFT, has spawned a new breed of market mavens whose backgrounds are far different than the traditional suit-clad Wall Street titans. Their resumes are rich in rocket science and other non-financial fields and they may never have traded a stock, read...
A Year in MP3s
By R. Luke Dubois, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com, September 9th, 2010
R. Luke Dubois is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Polytechnic Institute of NYU Last September, my best friend, Susan, told me that I didn’t make enough music anymore. She was right; between 1996 and 2003, I put out a new record every year, played a few shows a month and did quite a bit...
Would you like to play a game? High schoolers invited to NYU-Poly cyber-security games
By Scott Merrill, crunchgear.com, September 9th, 2010
When I was in high school, “hacking” mostly meant wardialing the local phone numbers looking for BBSes, and occasionally downloading “warez” from the “elite” boards. I have a funny story about the time our own John Biggs wrote a trojan disguised as a blue box program. Mostly, we were killing...
President Hultin Becomes Contributor to Economist Blog with 'Fast and Furious'
By Jerry M. Hultin, ideas.economist.com, September 9th, 2010
Fast and Furious Blue jeans, innovation and learning from failure This is the first in a series of blog posts by NYU-Poly President Jerry M. Hultin for The Economist’s new Ideas Economy website. I was the freshly-minted dean of technology management of an American engineering school as I walked...
