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NYU-Poly Students Challenge Peers in Cyber War Games
Reuters, September 8th, 2009
With cyber security fraud costing businesses more than a trillion dollars worldwide and enforcement agencies facing shortages that can delay forensics investigations for years, the graduate students of a leading information security program devised the 2009 cyber war games to attract the next...
Bejtlich to Judge NYU-Poly CSAW Forensics Challenge
By Richard Bejtlich, TaoSecurity, September 8th, 2009
Dr. Nasir Memon was kind enough to ask me to be a judge at the Forensics Challenge component of the 5th annual Cyber Security Awareness Week, held by the Information Systems and Internet Security Lab within the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. NYU-Poly's ISIS lab is an NSF-funded lab...
Millions of long-term unemployed see few signs of hope
By Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers, September 6th, 2009
... Harold G. Kaufman, who heads the graduate program in organizational behavior at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, has studied the emotional toll of long-term unemployment. He said long bouts of joblessness can cause a person's mental state to deteriorate, leading to lower self-...
Space Golf, Astronaut Included
Science Friday, September 4th, 2009
The New York Hall of Science in Queens, NY opened a mini-golf course this summer. But it's no ordinary putt putt--each hole illustrates a science lesson. Charles Camarda, a NASA engineer and former astronaut, agreed to play a round, and explain some of the science as he putted.
NYC firms ready to grow
By Garett Sloane, AM New York, September 1st, 2009
Most of the companies on the 12th floor of 160 Varick St. — a startup incubator — probably couldn’t afford a fully hookedup office downtown if it didn’t come at such a discount: $200 a month per desk. “It’s the silver lining to the recession,” said Gianni Martire, 26, co-founder of Hotlist, a...
Small business finds a niche in downtown
Metro, September 1st, 2009
Metro spoke with Wayne Taitt, whose company, Clifton Charles sells men’s custom made dress shirts online. Q: What were you doing before you got involved in men’s shirts?A: I’m going from the sell side as an investment banker to the buy side of a portfolio manager to this. Q: How does this space...
Bloomberg: City Will Open Four More Incubators
WNYC AM and FM, September 1st, 2009
The city's recent efforts to help start up businesses get off the ground has been in such demand, officials are expanding the program. Mayor Bloomberg says the city will spend an additional $800,000 to open four more so-called "incubators," where entrepreneurs can rent office space at subsidized...
Mayor Talks Shop With Small Entrepreneurs
By Grace Rauh, NY1 TV, August 31st, 2009
Follow this link to see NY1's video coverage of the event Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent Monday trumpeting the city's efforts to support new businesses, but his chief Democratic opponent in the mayoral race said it was all a campaign tactic. NY1's Grace Rauh filed the following report. As a one-time...
Mayor Bloomberg dedicates NYU-Poly incubator facilities in Manhattan, welcomes resident entrepreneurs.
Business Incubator Association of New York State, August 31st, 2009
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg formally opened the business incubator at 160 Varick St. in Manhattan operated by our supporting member the NYU-Poly incubator program. The mayor also took questions from some of the 27 entrepreneurial companies being served by the incubator program, as well as from the...
Mayor Bloomberg to Entrepreneurs: "Keep Your Heads Positive!"
By Alicia Whitaker, Huffington Post, August 31st, 2009
"We want to keep New York a place where innovators and entrepreneurs want to be....and the new businesses gathered here give us an exciting preview of the future of business in our city," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he welcomed the first tenants of the city's business incubator at 160 Varick...
