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May 1, 2018
RIT Dota 2 team wins Grand Championship
RIT is securing its legacy as one of the best colleges in esports after winning its first Collegiate Starleague Dota 2 Grand Finals Championship April 28. The student team bested a bracket of North America’s 32 top universities to take home the $10,000 grand prize. -
April 13, 2018
RIT students take top awards at Game Dev Challenge
Teams from RIT won first and second place in the student category of the second annual New York State Game Development Challenge, hosted by RIT’s MAGIC Center and sponsored by Empire State Development. -
April 10, 2018
RIT experts help make computing accessible
RIT’s student and faculty researchers are working to make technology accessible for all by changing the culture of computing. -
April 5, 2018
Student Spotlight: Smart apparel helps those with autism
Meet James McGee and Kerri Zalba, two members of a student start-up company that uses wearable technology to help children on the autism spectrum. -
February 15, 2018
Venture Creations graduate receives major investment
Token, an identity technology start-up founded by RIT alumni Melanie and Steve Shapiro, will receive up to $1.75 million through the New York State Innovation Venture Capital Fund. -
November 28, 2017
Researchers make big splash at computing accessibility conference
RIT was well-represented at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ASSETS conference in early November, with more than a dozen faculty and students presenting projects in the field of computing accessibility. -
November 21, 2017
Graduate programs offer cutting-edge education
Today, RIT offers 73 master's programs, with 14 new programs added in just the past 10 years. And the number of master's programs is likely to grow even more in the near future. -
November 14, 2017
Multidisciplinary teams apply problem-solving skills during IdeaLab event
Rochester Institute of Technology students and faculty from various disciplines put their creative problem-solving skills to good use earlier this month. Working collaboratively, they examined challenges faced by client organizations and then presented conceptual solutions to them during a two-day event.
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October 22, 2017
A new approach to securing networks
RIT’s cybersecurity experts are studying the past, present and future of cybersecurity to gain a better understanding of the role that humans—and their behavior—play in keeping our technology secure. -
August 16, 2017
RIT recognized for cyber defense research
RIT has been designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research, which recognizes the university for its significant contributions in defending America’s cyberspace through computing security research. -
August 3, 2017
Experts discuss future of midsized ‘smart cities’
Forty researchers and practitioners from around the world came together at RIT to discuss the future of smart cities during the International Workshop on Urban Data Science. -
May 22, 2017
RIT team creates high-speed internet lane
Researchers at RIT are developing a faster and more reliable way to send and receive large amounts of data through the internet. By creating a new network protocol, researchers are essentially developing a new high-speed lane of online traffic, specifically for emergency information.