Media Coverage

Sep 22, 2017

The appointment of Ted Moudis to the NYIT Board of Trustees, has been featured in Newsday (subscription required) and The Island Now, a publication serving the residents of the Nassau County north shore community.

Moudis, who is a graduate of the NYIT Class of 1980 and a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), is the most recent alumnus to join the board, as well as the first appointee to the board under NYIT President Hank Foley, Ph.D. As mentioned in The Island Now, Moudis has remained actively involved with his alma mater. Over the years, he has hired several NYIT alumni, sits on the architecture advisory board, and holds seminars for students at his office each semester, where he shares career advice and other professional experiences.

 

Sep 21, 2017

Cybersecurity research by Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Paolo Gasti, Ph.D., done in partnership with Stevens Institute of Technology, is featured in several publications including Inverse, a publication that scientifically analyzes current events, and Threatpost, a source of IT and business security information, which also featured the news in its weekly podcast.

Gasti tells Inverse, “Passwords tend to follow rules. What we’re finding is that deep neural networks might be able to learn these rules implicitly. If you show them tens of millions of passwords, they’ll eventually realize very complicated functions that describe how different sets of users are generating passwords. We don’t tell the deep learning network what these rules are, they can look at the data and learn that themselves.”

The involvement of machine learning in password guessing “raised the bar in terms of what a secure password should be,” says Gasti.

Similar coverage has also appeared in:

  • American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) newsletter
  • Dark Reading
  • Sensors

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    Sep 19, 2017

    NYIT faculty members Wenjia Li, Ph.D., (Computer Science) and Shenglong Zhang, Ph.D., (Life Science), co-principal investigators on a new project funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), are featured in an article in Innovate LI. Dean Nada Marie Anid, Ph.D., of the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences is also cited in the article.

    The article, “Feds Back NYIT Professors On RNA-Sequencing Quest,” describes the two professors’ interdisciplinary research to create a tool that will allow accurate and reliable RNA sequencing in order to pursue links between RNA modifications and various health conditions. This tool, when available, can advance understanding of both the causes and the effects of RNA modifications. To create the tool, the scientists rely on mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, and an algorithm they have developed. Zhang says, “One of the advantages of our method is that it can identify, locate and quantify a broad spectrum of RNA modifications that other methods are not capable of.”

     

    Costello Lends Criminal Justice Expertise to Experian.com Article Following Equifax Breach

    Sep 18, 2017

    In the Experian.com article, “Here’s When You Should File a Police Report After a Data Breach,” assistant professor of behavioral sciences Andrew Costello, Ph.D., provides practical advice to identity theft victims, including targets of the Equifax breach. Costello, who is also a retired deputy inspector of police for the New York City Police Department, suggests that consumers only file a report when they know their identity has been stolen and that is likely to be used for criminal purposes. He also mentions that police reports are normally filed in identity theft cases where the victim is reasonably certain of the person who stole their identity. In regards to the recent Equifax breach, Costello says:

    “A complaint usually requires a victim, an action, and a suspect. The Equifax breach, by itself, would not warrant a police report, as potential victims may not have been victimized yet.”

     

    LaGrandeur Addresses Rising Technological Displacement in Michigan Daily

    Sep 11, 2017

    Michigan Daily, a publication covering the latest news from the University of Michigan, featured an article on a compelling presentation given by NYIT English professor Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., at the Ford School of Public Policy Science, Technology and Public Policy Lecture Series.

    Discussing the strong possibility that many of today’s jobs will soon be completed more inexpensively by artificial intelligence, LaGrandeur states, “In terms of sheer productivity, humans can’t keep up with computers and robots, and even when they can, all things being equal, machines and digital implements are often more convenient and cheaper.”

     

    President Foley Unveils Big Plans for NYIT Athletic Program in Newsday

    Sep 09, 2017

    As seen in Newsday (subscription required), NYIT President Hank Foley, Ph.D., has appointed Dan Velez as the university’s director of athletics and recreation. The appointment comes as Foley’s first step in a strategy to position NYIT as a Division II powerhouse, which also includes plans to raise funds for a new multi-purpose fieldhouse at the Long Island campus.

    In the article, Foley describes his future vision for the athletic program as an atmosphere in which NYIT’s athletes feel like Division I athletes, saying, “I’d really like to be a powerhouse in D-II and then we see where we go from there. For now, that’s the goal, that’s the end game.’’

     

     

    Grant for Life Sciences’ Hadjiargyrou Announced in Innovate LI

    Sep 06, 2017

    Innovate LI has covered news about a $442,000 grant awarded to Life Sciences Professor Michael Hadjiargyrou, Ph.D., by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. The story, which also appeared on the Health Medicine Network, describes Hadjiargyrou’s work to determine the exact role of Mustn1, a gene discovered in his laboratory that is critical to the development and repair of bones.

    “We all know people who have suffered from fractures, arthritis, or other joint or bone injuries, and this research into the genomics of bone healing could lead, eventually, to new gene-based therapies,” says Hadjiargyrou.

     

    Amsler Discusses Decline of Medical Research by Surgeons in ENT Today

    Sep 05, 2017

    ENT Today, a monthly publication distributed to the members of the Triological Society, has featured Kurt Amsler, associate dean of research and professor of biomedical sciences at NYITCOM, in its article, “The Decline of the Surgeon­-Scientist.” Discussing the dwindling number of surgeons participating in medical research, the article cites multiple quotes from Amsler regarding causes for this decline and how a lack of research may impact the future of the practice, stating:

    “The lack of research in surgery means that the practice of surgery could become relatively stagnant. This, coupled with research advances in non-surgery areas, could potentially lead to a decline in the position of surgery in the future healthcare landscape.”

     

    Sep 05, 2017

    The Center for Sports Medicine at NYITCOM was featured in The Island Now, a series of weekly publications covering news stories in the north shore Long Island community.

    In the article, Hallie Zwibel, D.O., director, Center for Sports Medicine, discusses a variety of topics relating to concussion awareness,including the Center for Sports Medicine’s recent partnership with Lawrence High School, the benefits of providing high school athletes with concussion baseline testing, and what parents and coaches of young football players should know regarding a recent study of neurodegenerative brain disease in deceased NFL players.

     

    LaGrandeur Discusses Future of AI and Economic Policy Reform on The Academic Minute

    Sep 05, 2017

    In a segment of The Academic Minute, Kevin LaGrandeur, professor of English, NYIT College of Arts and Sciences, explains why artificial intelligence is the biggest job killer in our society, and how the U.S. government can prevent the potential negative impact of technological unemployment. Supporting recent testimony by Elon Musk to U.S. governors, LaGrandeur states:

    “Automation poses a serious threat to American jobs. In fact, intelligent technology is displacing not only manual labor, but also middle-class jobs and higher level jobs. This displacement includes journalists, technical writers, and accountants, a profession that risks a very significant chance of being displaced by intelligent technology in the next ten years.”

    LaGrandeur notes that relieving the effects of this displacement will require fundamentally new approaches to economic policy, such as universal basic income, as Musk has mentioned, or perhaps a shorter workweek and a mechanism for paying individuals when their personal data is used by technology firms to turn a profit. Other suggested policy changes include judicious regulation for the development of protocols to build and test AI, procedures for fail-safe controls built into AI, methods to examine the reliability of these controls, and most importantly, government investments to research non-military forms of artificial intelligence, so that benevolent innovations in technology could offset dangerous ones.