A Team of Devs from Brooklyn College Won the $10k Top Prize at NYC Media Lab’s Summit

The team built a programming language called Picat, and judges saw its potential for game development and artificial intelligence problems.

Military Veterans Become Tech Entrepreneurs with new program from NYU School of Engineering

August 13, 2015

NYU School of Engineering Graduates First VET Program Class; Applications for Fall Session Now Being Accepted

NYU-Poly Breakthrough Stabilizes Important Proteins

October 8, 2009

Applications Include Therapeutic Proteins for Diagnosis of Illnesses and Enzymes to Produce Bio-Ethanol and Low-Calorie Sweeteners

Will the Car of the Future Be Made from Coal Ash?

Coal waste could provide a strong, lightweight material for car manufacturers

College entrepreneurship programs expand

NYC universities see a spike in enrollments for studies focusing on how students can launch and manage their own businesses.

MM-Wave Radio Spectrum Becomes Tangible 5G Path

NYU WIRELESS researchers are designing and validating technologies necessary for the millimeter-wave radio spectrum to create 5G wireless systems.

World's Biggest Hacking Competition Launches Thursday At NYU-Poly

Nearly 1,000 teams, from Australia to Zimbabwe, have already registered for the preliminary round of the competition

Can New York save utilities from the 'death spiral' created by solar rooftops?

New York start-ups are hoping to make distributed generation a financially viable option for large power producers

Guide to the top college and university cyber security degree programs

Business and technology higher education institutions are offering cyber security degrees and programs to help meet the job demand.

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.

How Tech Helps Guide the Blind

New developments in accessible technology have made it easier than ever for the visually-impaired to connect.

Second half explosion gives NYU-Poly first win; drowns Dolphins 4-1

September 9, 2009

Fr. Nick Michalczewski scores two for NYU-Poly in win

NYU is Building a Real-Life Holodeck

For what? All sorts of stuff. A $2.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation will get things going.

Foreign Tech And Engineering Students Can Now Stay In The U.S. Longer

New visa rules will allow certain students to work in the United States for as long as three years after graduating.

Researchers Add Software Bugs to Reduce the Number of… Software Bugs

A new strategy for training bug-finding tools could help catch more vulnerabilities.

NYU Tandon Shows Off its Best and Brightest

Among the projects featured at the school's Research Expo: a model for earlier detection of autism, a search tool for the dark web and a virtual-reality experience to explore queerness. The event…

The Tech Helping Immigrants Hack the Ban

Across the country, designers and coders are coming together to develop tools for communities targeted by Trump’s orders.

PicFic wins Make It In BK pitch competition

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

'The Ability Exchange,' Indiewire's September Project of the Month, is a 'One-Man Band' Empathy Engine

The director behind the upcoming documentary talks about his experiences crafting a film with (and for) the disability community.

Urban Pulse Uses Social Media Data to Show Cities in a New Light

The open-source platform could prove useful for architects and planners seeking a better understanding of places and the people who use them

Artists take residence in Times Square

Four local artists have been invited to work for three months each in the heart of one of the world’s most famous tourist attractions

BP Markowitz, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership Unveil Designs Of Re-Imagined Open Space From Borough Hall To Brooklyn Bridge Park

Four colleges present best-use ideas for Downtown Brooklyn Commons, 21 acres of public space

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.

How Secure is the Fingerprint Scanner on Your Phone?

It surely makes your phone safe, but the question is, for how long

NYU Docs are Using Machine Learning to Stop a Stealthy Disease Before It's Too Late

Lymphedema causes unsightly swelling in the arms and legs. But researchers Mei Fu and Yao Wang have an idea for catching early symptoms sooner.

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.

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.

Researchers Uncover Car Infotainment Vulnerability

Should an automobile manufacturer have to release a patch for a feature that they never deployed? A newly discovered vulnerability in MirrorLink's infotainment software may force an answer.

New Training Tool Helps Firefighters Stay ALIVE

October 15, 2013

NYU-Poly Researchers Join Government and Fire Departments to Develop Free Game-Based Online Education for Newly Emerging Risks

Let’s End the War Between Online and On-campus Instruction

Open the way for research on the educational consequences of collaboration between virtual and face-to-face learning, Robert Ubell argues.

New York City Noise Pollution Research

Researchers from NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress and Music and Audio Research Laboratory have teamed up to study the problem of urban noise pollution.

Meet FenTrend, the Green Building Startup That Won Urban Future Lab's $25K Competition

Andy Huh wants to make it easier for real estate developers to build energy-efficient projects.

Why those reports of DOGE using AI have experts worried about ‘massive risk’

March 4, 2025

Mayor Bloomberg announces NYC Seed, a partnership with Poly to offer capital to tech start-ups

June 4, 2008

500 Youngsters and Their Robots Compete at NYU-Poly

January 7, 2011

50 Brooklyn Middle School Teams Try for Spot in FIRST LEGO League Citywide Finals; 300 New York Metro High School Students Learn Secret Challenge During NASA Broadcast

Why 5G Isn't Aimed at Mobile Phone Users

The applications for 5G wireless target autonomous vehicles, factory floors, and the Internet of Things...not end users.

Tandon Student Research Posters Win First and Second Place at IEEE Symposium

October 19, 2016

The GovLab is Taking on Corruption in Mexico and Thinks Crowdsourcing Can Help

The GovLab will host six online conferences to generate ideas and recommendations for the Mexican government.

MeWe builds a bridge between government and business

While there, he saw how challenging it was for government agencies to ensure proper oversight. The system clearly failed in the wake of the housing crisis that brought the U.

NYU-Poly program puts K-12 STEM ed in 18 public schools and beyond

NYU-Poly has a decade-old program that puts its faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in 18 city public schools to bring "high quality and in-depth STEM programming" for both teachers and…

Israel is 5th Nation to Host Student Cyber Security Contest

Final hacking competition in world’s largest student-led cybersecurity games will be available this year at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Grenoble INP Esisar coordinates the 1st European Cybersecurity Competition (CSAW) in Valence (Translated)

Grenoble INP - Esisar, in collaboration with New York University (NYU), is organizing the European edition of Cyber ​​Security Awareness Week (CSAW), from 9 to 11 November 2017, at Esisar in Valencia.

Where 5G technology is headed and when

The 5G technology standard is under development as the Internet of Things and an increasing number of mobile users create demand for next-generation wireless infrastructure.

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...

At Cybersecurity Camps, Teen Girls Learn About Protecting Nation, Breaking Barriers

Young women who grew up in an era of identity theft and hacking study how to combat cyber crimes

NYU: New York's other engineering school

As the buzz builds for Cornell Tech's long-awaited Roosevelt Island campus, NYU Tandon is undertaking a major expansion in Downtown Brooklyn

Trump Hotels Hacked – Again

So much for cyber security – Trump’s own propertys are constantly getting hacked in an effort to obtain credit card information.

NYU's High-School Hackathon Uncovers Next-Gen Brilliance

The 13th annual NYU Cybersecurity Awareness Week (CSAW) games kicked off today in Brooklyn, bringing together top high school hackers and researchers for a war games contest.

Big companies aren’t as well protected as they think

Experts on enterprise cyber security discuss the Department of Commerce's guidance for keeping data and critical IT infrastructure safe.

Google: Unwanted Bundled Software is Way More Aggressive Than Malware

Researchers have exposed the questionable practices of the pay-per-install industry behind the lucrative market for unwanted software.

Could Brooklyn Be Amazon’s New Second Home?

The borough's leaders wind up their pitch for a facility that could bring 50,000 jobs, 'the trophy deal of the decade

Who's in Charge of the Internet?

NYU GovLab's Stefaan Verhulst digs into multistakeholder internet governance in a sexy new research paper. We break it down for you.

Student cybersecurity hacking and education weekend at NYU-Poly

Poly's Cyber Security Awareness Week featured a Capture The Flag competition, testing students ability to test website's vulnerability, that has doubled in size every year for four years.

The High-Tech, Low-Cost World of Tunnel Building

New technology has dramatically reduced the cost—and disruption—of building tunnels under busy cities for rail, road and utility projects

Making Greener, Safer Transformers

With the help of PowerBridgeNY, the HIGHEST Transformers company aims for cleaner, safer electrical technology that could save billions of dollars a year.

Nonprofits Use Technology to Empower People with Disabilities

Technology is often talked about as a disruptive force, but it can also be an invaluable assistant for those who need help the most.

Here’s who won the Brooklyn Innovation Awards

January 29, 2016

Nearly 200 of the borough's best minds gathered last night for our first-ever Brooklyn Innovation Awards. We take you through the winners, in tweets.

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.

Hacking a Car Via the Driver's Smartphone

In a recently published paper "A Security Analysis of an In Vehicle Infotainment and App Platform", researchers from New York University and George Mason University unveiled the vulnerabilities posed…

An Immigrant's Advice to Theresa May

The right kind of immigration can benefit the UK according to Alec Cameron, the new vice-chancellor of Aston University in Birmingham, who was recruited from Australia for his entrepreneurial skills…

NYU-Poly Cyber War Games Find Top Collegiate Sleuths

October 13, 2009

10 Teams Advance to Finals in Digital Challenges Designed to Discover the Next Generation of Cyber-Security Stars; Other Contests Remain Open for High School and College Students

Keeping in the Hyperloop: Building a Faster Future

Elon Musk's ambitious concept for a new mode of transportation has been picking up speed. Meet some of the students and engineers working to make the Hyperloop a reality.

AT&T Joins NYU WIRELESS to Develop Next-Generation Mobile Network Technology

February 4, 2014

Research Center Explores Millimeter Wave Spectrum in Response to Skyrocketing Demand for Wireless Data Transfer

Public testbed to speed the path to 5G

The NYU WIRELESS research centre has announced it will build an advanced programmable platform to design, prototype, and validate technologies vital for the millimetre wave (mmWave) radio spectrum,…

Researchers Investigate the Communications Behind Swarming

February 9, 2015

With a Little Help from Robotic Fish, the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering will Search for Clues to Brain Behavior

Is ‘Brooklyn Tech’ Even a Thing? Does it Matter?

In which a handful of leaders in the Brooklyn tech scene discuss the term and we wonder what it means for the collective power of the community.

NYU Tandon’s Urban Future Lab holds an action-oriented forum focused on building blueprints for advanced energy implementation

June 25, 2025

Leadership in the age of AI — episode 3. “AI at full speed: innovation, ethics, and the battle for global leadership

June 2, 2025

15 STEM summer programs for high school students: explore science & engineering

June 6, 2025

NYU Tandon researchers create method for precise drug delivery capsule manufacturing

July 22, 2025

Researchers develop technique that could solve long-standing challenge of producing uniform therapeutic particles at industrial scale

NYU and NJIT researchers developing AI audio captioning technology for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, in new NSF-funded project

July 23, 2025

Three-year project aims to automatically caption environmental sounds, music, and sound effects in online videos

NYU Tandon engineers develop new transparent electrode for infrared cameras

July 29, 2025

Silver nanowire composite could help make infrared imaging more affordable and widespread

I know what you did this summer: NYU Tandon educates hundreds of city middle and high school students in free summer STEM program

July 30, 2025

NYU Tandon researcher advocates for uncertainty-aware water risk models to improve flood and drought preparedness

August 5, 2025

Probabilistic forecasting approach could help communities and engineers make better decisions by showing range of possible outcomes rather than single predictions

NYU Tandon integrates responsible AI and robotics into graduate education

August 12, 2025

NSF grant supports curriculum transformation for future engineers

NYU Tandon's Urban Future Lab announces finalists for 2025 Urban Future Prize Competition

August 12, 2025

Eight innovative climatetech companies vie for $100,000 in prizes

Scientists develop microscopic 'swimming' discs that could help clean polluted waters: 'Pave the way for applications'

August 2, 2025

‘Red flag for the Arctic’: Nitrogen levels threaten marine food

August 13, 2025

David M. Truong’s Programmable Regenerative Immunity Lab is doing promising research that could open up new possibilities for Alzheimer’s patients

September 16, 2025