News
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January 3, 2018
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RIT to host statewide Game Dev Challenge
The New York State Game Dev Challenge, hosted by RIT's MAGIC Center, is an opportunity for students enrolled in New York state colleges and universities and indie developers residing within the state to bring their game ideas to production. The challenge kicks off with an event at 4 p.m. Friday. -
December 11, 2017
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Professor launches games about religious legal systems
A team of interdisciplinary researchers, designers and developers led by Owen Gottlieb, an assistant professor of interactive games and media at RIT, has produced two first-of-their-kind table-top games that aim to promote and enhance the public understanding of religion and law. -
December 7, 2017
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Student Spotlight: Creating a Holo-Assistant
Meet Chirag Kular, a computer science graduate student who is working on an innovative research project using augmented reality technology and incorporating the technology of Microsoft HoloLens, Amazon’s Alexa and IBM’s Watson. -
November 28, 2017
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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 28, 2017
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Andrew Phelps named president of Video Game Alliance
Andrew Phelps, professor, founder and director of RIT’s MAGIC Center, has been named president of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance, a professional association of video game scholars and programs at colleges and universities. -
November 21, 2017
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Online master's degrees make learning accessible
More than 240 students from 13 countries are enrolled in a fully online master's degree program at RIT to open new doors in their careers, improve their salaries and advance their skills. -
November 21, 2017
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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
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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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November 6, 2017
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Teams battle at offensive cybersecurity competition
The nation’s brightest cybersecurity college students traveled to RIT to test their hacking skills in the annual National Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition. -
November 2, 2017
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Student Spotlight: Using technology for humanitarian causes
Meet Pratik Shirish Kulkarni, a second-year computer science major who completed a 13-week co-op for UNICEF International working with data collecting. -
October 24, 2017
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RIT hosts national pentesting competition
Sixty of the nation’s top cybersecurity college students will face off this November at an offensive hacking competition at RIT. -
October 22, 2017
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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.
