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Posted December 6th, 2012

Mobile Security Conference Comes to 2012 CSAW

With more than 6 billion cell phone users around the globe, a very relevant question to ask is just how secure are these devices – the subject of a recent day-long NYU-Poly conference (THREADS...

Posted December 4th, 2012

Eugene Kaspersky Talks Cyber Threats, the Future of Security

Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder and current CEO of one of the world’s largest IT security companies, Kaspersky Lab (KL), is a worried man – and he thinks students at the Polytechnic...

Posted November 15th, 2012

Livable Cities of the Future Honors George Bugliarello's Legacy

Late last month, NYU-Poly hosted Livable Cities of the Future, a symposium honoring the legacy of George Bugliarello, who served as President of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-...

Posted November 9th, 2012

NYU-Poly Competes in US Department of Energy’s Biennial Solar Decathlon

August 2013 will see participants in the US Department of Energy’s biennial Solar Decathlon, a program that challenges college students around the world to design, build and operate solar-...

Posted October 18th, 2012

Cliff Friedman Speaks at Innovation and Technology Forum

Students buzzed with energy last Monday as they filed into Pfizer Auditorium for the second Innovation and Technology Forum guest lecture of the semester featuring Cliff Friedman, one of the school...

Posted October 16th, 2012

Learning to Fight the Modern Fire in a Modern Way

Until this week, revolutionary firefighting research faced a hurdle higher than the scientific discoveries themselves: How to inform the nation’s 1.1 million firefighters – 70 percent of...

Posted October 15th, 2012

Brooklyn Atlantis: A Robot Captures Life, Litter in the Gowanus With the Help of Citizen Scientists

As Maurizio Porfiri and Oded Nov lowered their submersible robot, Brooklyn Atlantis 1, into the water, the two professors and their four students, Jarred Humphrey, Vladislav Kopman, Jeffrey Laut, and...

Posted October 11th, 2012

Update on Completing the Steps to Make NYU-Poly the School of Engineering of NYU

Frequently Asked Questions about the Affiliation It is with great pleasure that we share with you the news that the boards of both NYU and NYU-Poly have approved beginning the technical process for...

Posted October 2nd, 2012

NSF Grant Upgrades Educational P2P Platform

The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $346,338 grant to upgrade a novel educational peer-to-peer networking platform that fosters the development of computer applications. The free and...

Posted October 2nd, 2012

Shifting Sublime: Charugundla Collection Opens at NYU-Poly

Thursday night’s opening of “Shifting Sublime,” a contemporary art exhibition at NYU-Poly, began with a toast to alumni Kent and Marguerite Charugundla, who have loaned works from...