News

April 28, 2017

Two graduate students earn NSF fellowships

Larwan Berke and Brendan John, graduate students in RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, each received a three-year, $34,000 annual stipend from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
April 26, 2017

GCCIS faculty and students present research

Faculty and students from RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences will exhibit their work at the GCCIS Research Showcase from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday in the Golisano Hall atrium and auditorium, room 1400. The free event will feature speeches, posters and demos.
April 25, 2017

RIT among hosts of NASA Space Apps Challenge

RIT is one of 200 host sites from around the world for the two-day hackathon. The 2017 NASA International Space Apps Challenge is designed to engage thousands of problem-solvers in working with NASA to create solutions to international and interdisciplinary problems using open-source data.
April 25, 2017

MAGIC Center hosts attorney Nicole Black

Nicole Black, a Rochester attorney and director of Business and Community Relations at MyCase, a web-based law practice management software company, presents “Censored by Traditional Media, Empowered by Social Media” on Wednesday as part of the MAGIC Center Speaker Series.
April 19, 2017

Girls Who Code founder to speak at RIT

Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology, will speak Friday as part of the ACM New York Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.
April 17, 2017

Students compete in national cyber defense contest

RIT’s cyber defense team competed with the nation’s top cybersecurity colleges at the 2017 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held April 13-15. A team of RIT students also took third-place in the weekend’s Panoply event, a capture-the-flag-style network attack and defense competition.
April 12, 2017

RIT team heads to cyber defense championship

A group of RIT students will take on teams from the country’s top cybersecurity colleges in the 2017 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, held April 13–15 in San Antonio.
April 6, 2017

Students accept Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge

Twenty-five student teams from RIT will test their puzzle-solving skills in hopes of winning prizes and claiming the top spot in the annual Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge.
March 29, 2017

Women in Computing helping to close gender gap

For all the progress women have made in STEM careers, the gender gap in computing is only growing larger. RIT’s Women in Computing (WiC) group was created in 2008 to help empower women in computer fields to succeed and thrive at RIT and beyond.
March 21, 2017

New seminar series on artificial intelligence

RIT has a growing artificial intelligence (AI) community, and a new seminar series has been developed to strengthen interactions among researchers from across campus involved in the growing technology field.
March 21, 2017

Video game design programs jump in 2017 rankings

RIT is one of the top schools in the world to study game design and launch games for 2017, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review. RIT’s game design and development program was ranked second at the undergraduate level and fourth at the graduate level.
March 21, 2017

Information retrieval expert to speak Friday

Jeremy Pickens, a leading information retrieval research scientist, will discuss the problems and opportunities with law and the collection of massive amounts of data as part of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Dean’s Lecture Series.