10 Brooklyn scientists you should know

These scientists and companies are pushing the boundaries of human knowledge right here in the borough.

Mayor Bloomberg Launches NYC Urban Technology Innovation Center

Partnership of the City, Columbia, NYU-Poly and CUNY Will Connect Academic Institutions Conducting Sustainable Technology Research, Companies Creating the Associated Products and Building Owners Who…

NYU Tandon gets $4.45 million to work on 5G and cybersecurity

The state funding will keep the school on the cutting edge of wireless research for at least five more years.

PicFic wins Make It In BK pitch competition

It's a platform for illustrated novels and the judges gave it the green light.

Women of Power: Honoring Trailblazing Legacies

Shedding light on the legacies of those that paved the way.

Clean Sweep: Women's Volleyball Wins Three

October 24, 2010

Finishes in Second Place in the Skyline

3D Printing Industry Becomes Target for Cybersecurity Concerns

Almost every player in the tech sector is vulnerable to cybersecurity concerns, and the 3D printing market is no exception.

Made in Brooklyn!

September 22, 2016

NYU Tandon Cuts the Ribbon on its New MakerSpace

Polytechnic University Appoints Dr. Erich E. Kunhardt as New Provost

November 10, 2006

Alumnus and Former Faculty Member Returns to the Polytechnic Community

City to invest $7.2 million in new hubs to bolster tech

The hubs, one at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the other near Grand Central Terminal, will debut this summer

Finch's Walk-Off Double Gives Baseball Win Over Yeshiva

April 11, 2011

NYU-Poly Splits With the Macs

Banks on Edge After Spate of Spectacular Cyber Heists

Cybersecurity specialists say recent attacks on Bangladesh, Vietnam and Ecuador are probably just the tip of the iceberg

Blockchain AI Researchers Link Specific Bitcoin Wallets to Sex Workers

The Bitcoin blockchain keeps a permanent record of all transactions. Now the police can track clients and pimps using it.

Lights, Camera, Bakelite!

December 5, 2017

The Office of Student Affairs Hosts a Fun and Informative Movie Night

Federal government puts money behind NYU Tandon’s 5G cellular program

The school is receiving a new grant from the U.S. Commerce Department for $2.2 million.

Peter Carr's Hall of Mirrors

Put-call symmetry may have been the start but, for Peter Carr, the importance of invariance extends into surprising realms of possibility. Dan Tudball traces Carr's kaleidoscopic journey...

IBM Watson Brings AI Wonders to Cybersecurity

8 universities will help teach the machine to stop hacks.

Governor Cuomo Announces Growth of Clean Technology and Creation of 980 Jobs

$14 million Investment in Cleantech Business Incubator Initiative Supports the Development of 141 Clean Energy Companies across the State

Cross Country Competes at Queensborough Event

September 29, 2010

Velasco Leads the Way for NYU-Poly

A Robot To Explore Brooklyn’s Epically Polluted Gowanus Canal

The Gowanus is a toxic soup that cuts through the New York borough, too poisonous for human exploration. A group of students are sending a remote-controlled, camera-equipped robot--the Brooklyn…

How Justin Cappos Created a New Way to Cloud Compute

Cappos hopes to use his system to surf the web from the International Space Station.

Distinguished, Dedicated, and Dynamic

May 22, 2015

Anne Dudek Ronan Garners the School of Engineering’s Highest Teaching Honor

NYU WIRELESS Researchers Call on Governments to Reform Safety Standards for Wireless Devices

June 11, 2015

IEEE Conference on Communications Judges Select the Research as ‘Best Paper’

NYU's Gary Marcus is an Artificial Intelligence Contrarian

He sold his startup to Uber and helped the ride-hailing company launch its AI lab. But he's not sold on the rise of the machines just yet.

Rural Test of 5G Cellular Technology by NYU Tandon Prof Outperforms Expectations

If smartphones get dramatically faster in the coming years, you can thank the research being done here in Brooklyn.

Startup Offers to Protect Printers, Phones, and Other Devices from Hackers

The first device running the defensive code, a Cisco IP phone, will be unveiled this week.

Why Does Coffee Spill More Often than Beer?

November 20, 2014

An NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Professor and Her Collaborators Have the Answer

'Roundest Known Space Object' Identified

Astronomers claim to have discovered the roundest object ever measured in nature.

Bright Lights, Big Games

July 26, 2016

Students develop interactive games for the ultimate playground: Times Square

Men's Volleyball Beats Brooklyn Collge

February 22, 2011

Lukban Leads the Way with 13 Kills

A Better Way to Build Bones

June 18, 2015

NYU Researchers Tapping the Body’s Own Signals to Aid Repair of Complex Injuries

Winning Student Inventors Tackle Medical Challenges

April 11, 2011

NYU-Poly Team Would Replace the Century-Old Bandage; Staten Island Tech High School Students Reinvent the Wheelchair to Win Time Warner Cable Inno/Vention Competition

11 university startups accepted into NYC Media Lab Combine accelerator

The program hopes to grow the future of New York's media industry.

Hacking for a Cause: Record Number of Students and Professionals Accept NYU-Poly Challenge to Find Next Generation of Cyber Sleuths

September 29, 2010

10 College Teams Advance to Finals in Capture the Flag Cyber Security Challenge

Tech accelerators grab for equity

Entrepreneurs embrace the havens for startups, but is the cost too high?

NYU Tandon teams up with Columbia on GovLab project

The open data effort seeks to make government datasets more accessible.

NYU Tandon, ff Venture Capital Announce AI NexusLab to Launch Artificial Intelligence Startups

July 26, 2016

First AI-Focused Partnership for a University and Venture Fund in the United States

IIT Kanpur to Host Global Cyber Security Challenge

The event, founded by the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, has expanded this year to NYU Abu Dhabi & IIT-K

To fix ailing subway system, experts say MTA should get funding from rising property values

“Value capture,” as it’s known, is “the solution of the moment,” according to some

City's incubator tally swells to 100

The city is already awash in common work spaces for startups, Crain's research finds, but more are expected as the focus expands from tech to other industries.

First Lego League Brooklyn Qualifier

400 students from across Brooklyn were swarming inside 6 Metrotech Center, on the campus of NYU-Poly this weekend, for the NYC First Lego League Brooklyn Qualifier.

Ambitious but Attainable Goals

September 10, 2015

On Its Way to Loftier Heights, the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering has received re-accreditation for its undergraduate engineering programs by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and…

New York University Polytechnic Institute and Capco Institute Announce Collaboration on Next Issue of Capco’s Journal of Financial Transformation

July 12, 2010

Special issue will focus on: “The Post-Crisis World of Financial Services”

Driving Change: Are Cities Ready for Robot Cars?

Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and the former mayor of New York, opened the CityLab conference at the Intercontinental on Monday. The artistic stage is a "living stage" of…

Engineered robot interacts with live fish

A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered robots.

MilliLabs Ignores Industry Skepticism to Build Emulator for Millimeter Waves

The startup says it has an alternative to expensive over-the-air tests for 5G

Allegedly Operating $4 Billion Bitcoin Crime Website

Bitcoin exchange BTC-e is suspected by many in the cryptocurrency community to be the business the Russian was arrested for.

Best High School Cyber Detectives Head to Brooklyn for Their Final Challenge

November 8, 2013

13 Teams Progress to the Final Round of NYU-Poly’s High School Digital Forensics Contest

Polytechnic University to Host Siemens Science Day

October 21, 2006

New York City Youth Jump into the World of Tomorrow with Science

Animation domination: Anime festival takes over MetroTech

How Videogames Make AI Smarter

PowerBridgeNY Powers On

March 9, 2018

The Proof-of-Concept Center’s Latest Cohort Includes Three Teams from NYU Tandon

Have Amelia Earhart’s Remains Been Located?

Despite a flurry of reporting to the contrary, the mystery of Earhart’s final resting place has not been — and may never be — solved.

NYU Engineering School Launches Startup Incubator for Military Veterans

Helping veterans transition to civilian life might be the program’s greatest benefit

Liam Dalton Brings His Design-Build Expertise to HNTB

Design-build expert Liam Dalton, PE, is joining the HNTB Corporation team as design-build project director and vice president of the firm’s Northeast division.

NYC to Host World Cup for Problem-Solving Startups This Month

"We’re not looking for the next Angry Birds or Yo."

This Tandon Scholarship Wants You to Hack it Up

To encourage NYU students to enter the world of cyber security, Tandon created a scholarship.

NYU Tandon School of Engineering Awarded Highly Competitive $260,000 NEH Grant to Digitize New York City Record

March 28, 2016

Grant to Fund Digitizing the City Record 1873 to 1998: Making Transparent New York City Government Infrastructure and Political Economy

These 15 stories defined Brooklyn’s tech scene in 2014

Annotate our list of the year's biggest stories.

Want to build smart cities instead of dating apps? Come to NYC

Why tech companies addressing crucial energy issues prefer the Big Apple

Virtual Spider Crawls Up Historic Brooklyn Building to Open World's Largest Student Cyber Security Event

November 12, 2013

Artists and Geeks Team Up to Mark the 10th Anniversary of NYU-Poly’s Cyber Security Awareness Week

Researchers set record for detecting smallest virus, opening new possibilities for early disease detection

Nano-gold receptors enable a biosensor to detect and size the smallest virus.

Ransomware attack takes down LA hospital for hours

One of the greatest threats to private cybersecurity today is ransomware -- a cyberattack that blocks access to a computer until the hacker is paid a ransom.

Global Cyber Attack Cripples British Hospitals

A ransomware attack spread across international borders, but had the biggest effects on the United Kingdom's National Health System

Cities first to benefit from Internet of Things, if we can write better software

In spite of significant technological and social challenges, the Internet of Things will improve the quality of life for city dwellers. That was the conclusion of a Vint Cerf-led panel on Wednesday.

NYU Tandon Grad Student Wins Award From Marconi Society for 5G Research

George MacCartney was recognized for his work on the millimeter wave spectrum.

Power play! NYU Poly expands with new energy program

The Brooklyn school is developing a new master's degree curriculum in energy engineering and policy

Dream Big, Start Small: NYU Startups Disrupt Big Industries

Contestants at the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge set out to challenge the status quo in major industries through their innovative approaches.

Hacker Claims to be Selling Stolen NSA Spy Tools

The NSA develops high-powered hacking tools. Now a hacker claims to be selling a stolen batch of them.

Tech Incubator to Launch in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The incubator will open this fall in DUMBO – an old manufacturing district of New York City.

Why agtech grows in Brooklyn

We've seen an abundance of agtech activity in the borough. But why here?

NYU Tandon's Future Labs Just Released a List of 2016 Successes and Yowza, Go Brooklyn!

Recapping an exceptional year for the NYU Tandon Future Labs

NYU Tandon Prof Unveils Homeland Security- Funded Framework for Software Security in Cars

The team said the time is coming when our cars have to have the same level of protection as our laptops. Meet Uptane.