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Posted April 10th, 2013

Inno/Vention: Making the Cut

Judges line the front row of Pfizer Auditorium, pens and pads in hand, as one team of entrepreneurial hopefuls after another present their original ideas for the 6th Annual Inno/Vention Competition...

Posted April 8th, 2013

Sifteo Game Jam

“They’re going to start giving these things out at McDonald’s,” joked Mike Frasco ’13DM as he surveyed the tiny, plastic cubes laid out for the Game Innovation Lab...

Posted March 27th, 2013

Inno/Vention's Sweet Sixteen

The Inno/Vention competition is underway. Teams competing in the upcoming ProtoTest stage, could find themselves competing for a prize pool of more than $22,000 during DemoDay, the third and final...

Posted March 22nd, 2013

NYU-Poly/NYU Graduate Program Is Rated One of the Top in North America

There are many graduate game design programs to choose from, and The Princeton Review lists the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) and NYU among the best. For its newly released...

Posted March 20th, 2013

Reaching the Summit

Opening a summit with a keynote speaker like aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center guarantees that everyone else has a tough act to follow, but the...

Posted March 19th, 2013

The Interface Revolution is Here

To more fully serve users’ personal and business needs, digital interfaces are evolving beyond screen-based devices; augmented reality, eye tracking, hand gesture, and brain interface...

Posted March 13th, 2013

Game Innovation Lab's Indie Tech Talk Explores "Conceptual Art as Technical Practice"

Dressed in a t-shirt, jeans, and bandanna, conceptual artist and game designer Zach Gage stepped into NYU-Poly’s Game Innovation Lab last Wednesday night to discuss what he termed “floaty...

Posted March 7th, 2013

NYU-Poly’s NYC Service Design Jam: 48-hours to Change the World

PrevStartNextNYU-Poly’s NYC Service Design Jam: 48-hours to Change the World Just forty-eight hours to change the world. Though it sounds like a daunting task, it’s what participants in the...

Posted March 4th, 2013

High School Student a Rising Star in NYU-Poly Lab

Each summer Rich Gross, an NYU-Poly professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, hosts a select group of teens who come to the campus to work on independent lab projects and receive mentoring...

Posted March 4th, 2013

Topfer Chair Professor Charles S. Tapiero Publishes Engineering Risk and Finance

Professor Charles S. Tapiero's latest book, Engineering Risk and Finance, provides an interdisciplinary approach to risk anchored in finance, to value, price, and to manage risk, in its many...