Skip to Main Content
NJIT's Student Newspaper

The Vector

  • Big changes are coming to The Vector! Please be patient as we update our website!
NJIT's Student Newspaper

The Vector

NJIT's Student Newspaper

The Vector

Predicting Popularity

Joseph Iacoviello May 2, 2014

Artificial intelligence in computer science is often viewed as emulating or predicting the actions of a single intelligent individual, such as a human or an animal. Not many people picture artificial intelligence...

Heartbleed

Joseph Iacoviello April 18, 2014

On Monday, April 7th, the OpenSSL team reported the Heartbleed bug to the world. OpenSSL is the software that is used to encrypt or hide the data coming from your computer to the website. It is widely...

European Net Neutrality

European Net Neutrality

Joseph Iacoviello April 12, 2014

Europe is currently doing what American legislatures seem to have trouble doing: they are drafting a net neutrality law. The European Union has just voted in favor of a law that will ensure all traffic...

How the NSA Did It

How the NSA Did It

Joseph Iacoviello March 27, 2014

Image Courtesy of: Google The more we learn about the NSA’s secret surveillance program, the wider and wider the scope becomes. Since Snowden leaked files containing data on the NSA’s surveillance...

DOS: You Got Served

DOS: You Got Served

Joseph Iacoviello March 14, 2014

DOS (Denial of Service) attacks come in various different forms and intensities, but all have the same purpose, to take a website offline and damage the organization running that website. The most common...

Technology Discussion: Game Brain

Technology Discussion: Game Brain

Joseph Iacoviello February 25, 2014

The question of whether video games are good or bad for you has been debated nearly to death. Scientific studies may put this argument to rest, however, as studies show that action based games actually...

Cable Cutting

Cable Cutting

Joseph Iacoviello December 5, 2013

“Cutting the cable”, or unsubscribing from television cable networks, has been a popular idea but hasn’t really caught on yet. Despite the growth of third party networks such as Netflix, most people...

Phone Companies

Phone Companies

Joseph Iacoviello November 19, 2013

With the leak of the PRISM program run by the NSA, many were left wondering how the NSA was able to get at such a huge amount of data in the first place. It turns out that many carriers, including AT&T,...

Silk Road 2.0

Silk Road 2.0

Joseph Iacoviello November 12, 2013

The “Dark Net” is a series of nefarious websites that are impossible to access from the normal web. Dark Net is usually hidden behind a firewall or some sort of anonymous network, such as Tor. Tor...

Facebook and Big Data

Joseph Iacoviello November 5, 2013

Facebook is a company that is constantly getting in trouble for privacy violations. To generate revenue, Facebook needs to sell the data you give them to advertisers. The more hits that Facebook can bring...

Intelligent Machines

Intelligent Machines

Joseph Iacoviello October 29, 2013

The quintessential test for Artificial Intelligence is Alan Turing’s “Turing Test”. If a machine can fool a human into thinking that it is also a human, the machine passes the test. In the past,...

Technology News: Quantum Computing

Technology News: Quantum Computing

Joseph Iacoviello October 16, 2013

In May, Google created its Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab with NASA using quantum computer hardware they bought from a Canadian company called D-Wave. Since then, we haven’t heard much about what...

Load More Stories
Donate to The Vector