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☔️#ArtIsAWeapon

#PrinceFans, @polishedsolid presents #TripleThreat40 — a free, 3-day #symposium, celebrating Prince for 40 years of the albums 1999, What Time Is It?, and Vanity 6 on Friday, March 31, 2023–Sunday, April 2, 2023, at NYU Tandon @nyutandon In Brooklyn, New York.

Registration and details: www.triplethreat.polishedsolid.com

Reposted from @polishedsolid This will be the first in-person @polishedsolid symposium since 2019, featuring 40-plus speakers and 11 panels with 17 presentations, 5 roundtable discussions, and 1 keynote. We are extremely excited that #JillJones, who recorded, toured, and acted in #PurpleRain and #GraffitiBridge with Prince, is our special guest. In addition to music, we'll also discuss race, gender, politics, sexuality, and fashion.

For more details, including the schedule and speakers, visit the symposium website: https://triplethreat.polishedsolid.com.

FREE Registration at http://triplethreat40.eventbrite.com.

Massive thanks to our wonderful sponsors: NYU Tandon, NYU Integrated Design & Media (IDM), NYU Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation (OGI), NYU Institute of African American Affairs and the Center for Black Visual Culture, NYU Photography & Imaging, NYU Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, NYU Liberal Studies, and Joe Holt, Founder of Bandcamp!

The Estate of Prince Rogers Nelson is not affiliated, associated, or connected with the “Prince #TripleThreat40 Symposium,” nor has it endorsed or sponsored the “Prince #TripleThreat40 Symposium.” Further, the Estate of Prince Rogers Nelson has not licensed any of its intellectual property to the producers, advertisers, or directors of “Prince #TripleThreat40 Symposium.”

#Prince4Ever #Vanity6 #TheTime #PrinceLovers #BlackBrilliance

[hashtagnyu]

The Spirit of Innovation at HackNYU 2018

Year after year, the participants of HackNYU never fail to leave us in awe with their drive for innovation. This year, we were as inspired as ever by the ingenuity that came from the 500 participants at HackNYU 2018. With projects focusing on four separate disciplines, we saw just how eager the hackers of the largest, global, student-run hackathon were to better the world through technology. Here are the winners of this year’s hackathon — in no particular order — to prove it!

Accessibility & Assistive Technology Track

SenseFood won in this specific category for its ability to help the visually impaired. Using convolutional neural networks and scraping high quality images from Google Search for better efficiency, the SenseFood mobile app is able to identify grocery items and other products viewed through a phone camera and then dictates the result to its user!

MedTime allows users to distinguish different pills from each other, using computer vision to enhance and enlarge labels on the pills themselves. The mobile app makes it easier and safer for those who need to take many different medication in their daily lives.

EchoJournal allows parents to better understand and communicate with children with autism. Centering its function on Echolalia, this project allows caretakers to log in instances of this phenomenon, analyzing and contextualizing the speech to facilitate better communication. 

Healthcare Track

Nutrition Lens allows users to view the nutritional information of various food items for anyone to track their energy intake. Using machine learning, big data, augmented reality, AND object tracking, the app is able to identify different foods, pull up their information, and display it back to the user on the same screen!

InstaCal makes it possible for people who eat out to count their calories! With a simple scan of your receipt, it is able to look into its database of restaurants for the calories of each food item that was purchased, making it easy to keep track of caloric intake even when you eat out! 

Ava is a personal smart healthcare assistant that aims to tackle mental health issues through exposure therapy with the help of virtual reality. Paired with a special headband, it creates a heatmap of the brain, which can be used by a trained psychologist to help diagnose a patient. The smart assistant also guides the user through a series of virtual reality exercises to lower fear responses! 

Sustainability & Social Impact Track

Clothly is an app that reduces textile waste by pairing local clothing donors with organizations. Both parties of the transaction get to approve the contribution before it’s made, and after each other’s approval, a convenient time for clothing pickup is then scheduled! The integrated rewards system also provides an incentive for donors to make contributions to help make the world a more sustainable place. And with a cute name like Clothly, it’s no surprise they also won this year’s MLH Best Domain Name from Domain.com!

IntentCoin strives to make charities more transparent. By providing users with information on where their donations go and how they’re spent, IntentCoin aims to squash the inefficiencies, bureaucracy, and corruption that are unfortunately common in the charity space. The team also won BNY Mellon’s sponsor prize for Best FinTech Hack! 

Cupcycling is a hack that implements hardware to expedite the recycling process of disposable coffee cups at cafes! Using the resources available at the NYU MakerSpace, the project has different 3D-printed components that hold, hook, and flip the cup and its lid in different directions. It separates the plastic lid, the disposable liquid, and the paper cup in their respective waste bins! Talk about a hack made for NYU students by NYU students! 

Education Technology Track

IdeaCloud is a hack made for hackathons! Created by a group of high schoolers, this project aims to streamline the hackathon team-hunting process by allowing users to pitch their ideas onto a single platform and search for teammates with complementing skill-sets. We’re sure the HackNYU Team spoke with them after the hackathon was over!

ARTranslator was inspired by the struggles of its creator, an international student learning the English language. This project combines augmented reality, Google Translator, and image recognition to bring to life an app that can immediately translate the name of objects as soon as they are recognized by the phone camera! 

Clarify helps students deal with intimidating classroom environments. During a presentation, Clarify provides students with the opportunity to pinpoint specific slides that confuse them and submit a question anonymously. The app allows professors to answer questions in real time, making sure that students aren’t afraid of not knowing something! 

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Sponsor Prize: Best Hack for Disaster Relief & Recovery

Safelet was this year’s winner for JPMC’s sponsor prize for Best Hack for Disaster Relief & Recovery! This hack sports a bracelet with buttons that, when pressed in a certain order, will allow the user to contact the authorities, while also sending the user’s location to their stored emergency contacts. It’s connected to a mobile app disguised as a game, so it can be used in cases of domestic violence where discretion is vital. The hack’s versatility also landed the team an honorable mention for Contrary Capital’s Most Startup-Viable Hack!

Facebook Sponsor Prize: Community and Connecting the World

Resonate won Facebook’s Community and Connecting the World Sponsor prize at this year’s hackathon! It uses natural language processing algorithms to implement a system analogous to Braille, so that people with hearing impairments can receive public announcements and ambient sounds, like a doorbell ringing, as notifications on their smart devices!

Major League Hacking Sponsor Prize: Amazon Web Services - Best Use of AWS

Sigma won MLH’s Best Use of AWS sponsor prize this year! This project aims to create digital identities for people affected by natural disasters by implementing a quick and easy way for shelters to keep a record of the people who visit them, as well as the transactions they make.

Contrary Capital Sponsor Prize: The Most Startup-Viable Hack

Phormatics took home Contrary Capital’s Most Startup-Viable Hack this year! Using computer vision, this hack analyzes the form of the user’s workouts with a virtual personal trainer to suggest improvements and create a personalized schedule. It also connects to Facebook, unlocking a fitness-oriented social network!

Honorable Mentions

FunKey Keyboard received an honorable mention in the Education Technology Track this year! This project provides users with a fun rhythm game (and flashing lights) as a way to improve music education!

Unfiltered received an honorable mention in the Sustainability & Social Impact Track this year! Inspired by the Flint water crisis, the hack provides users with their state’s latest water quality test results, a search feature for their own county’s results, and resources to important water quality information links. If that weren’t enough, it also includes the link to obtain a free water testing kit! 

And there you have it — the brilliant winners and honorable mentions of HackNYU 2018! Whether or not one hack out of the 80 total project submissions made it to this list, building something from scratch in just 48 hours and then putting it out there for everyone to judge definitely takes ingenuity, creativity, and talent! Congratulations all the participants of this year’s hackathon!

[montclarelab]

My scientific summer with the Navy

By Joe Thomas

Academia or industry? This is a question that every grad student is asked at some point regarding their career plans.  As tenured academic positions become incredibly difficult for the bulk of life science graduates to obtain, industry is an attractive alternative that provides a wealth of different opportunities. These jobs are an obvious choice to apply the skills accumulated over the course of a PhD, but there are even more opportunities available outside of the traditional academia/industry dichotomy for those looking for something a little different. PhD scientists are trained to be highly technical leaders, a skillset that is in high demand in many defense/military positions. The Department of Defense (DoD) is always looking to recruit highly specialized researchers to work on projects of national importance. These roles allow researchers to be involved in cutting edge work that has a direct, near-term impact while serving your country.

Since starting graduate school, I have had an interest in working for/with the military as a researcher but was never able to interact with anyone who had direct knowledge of how to break into the field. Scholarships such as the NDSEG are widely publicized and allow graduate students to work on topics of national importance, but I was looking for something more involved with day-to-day military operations. A chance Google search revealed that the Navy uses numerous internship programs as pipelines for new hires. I applied for an NREIP internship and was fortunate enough to be selected to spend the summer at a Navy lab. NREIP internships are available to undergraduates and graduate students alike and involve working alongside a Navy mentor for 10 weeks to get a glimpse of how the DoD does science. My internship has me working with the Naval Medical Research Unit garrisoned at Wright Patterson in Dayton, Ohio. I am working in their Environmental Health Effects Laboratory which is in charge of investigating the effects of chemical exposures on military personnel. I have been tasked with developing a high-throughput analytical chemistry workflow that will allow the Navy to rapidly screen many different environmental exposures to assess how service members may be at risk. This new procedure will directly support and inform the military during their operations to help keep soldiers, sailors, and airmen safe and effective. During my time here, I have interacted with many Navy officers as well as civilian employees who work together in a tightly coordinated team to achieve their mission. The unit has researchers from many diverse backgrounds including biochemistry, physiology, physics, neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and psychology. Since the team is incredibly multidisciplinary, scientists are able to step outside of their comfort zone and gain experience in different fields if they choose. In this way researchers can build their resumes to move up within the organization or to transition into other scientific specialities.

Opportunities exist for those looking to serve in and out of uniform. The Navy recruits life science PhD graduates as officers to act as biochemists, microbiologists, and aerospace physiologists. In these roles they use their scientific knowledge to complete a wide range of tasks such as conducting safety training, running drug testing labs, developing vaccines, teaching at the Naval Academy, performing humanitarian missions, and carrying out basic research. Aerospace physiologists for example leverage their knowledge of biology and the human body to act as aeromedical safety officers. In this role they are in charge of the safety and training of their aviation unit and even have the chance to become rated pilots. These officers typically spend little time conducting experiments at the lab bench, but the knowledge and scientific skills they have acquired during graduate school are still applied every day during operations where they have to identify and solve technical problems. When they do receive research assignments however, they can act as department heads responsible for writing grants and coordinating a large team that conducts relevant aerospace research. PhD’s are also hired as civilians to conduct and oversee research programs of interest to the DoD. In this role they act as PI’s who are responsible for writing grants and directing a research team, similar to a PI in academia. PhD level scientists can work in GS (government service) rated roles or as government contractors. Bachelor’s and master’s level scientists can also work as contractors to carry out the day-to-day lab work that supports their command. 

The career fields available in defense research are incredibly varied on both the civilian and military side. Scientists have control over their careers and still maintain plentiful opportunities to secure grant funding and journal publications. Work/life balance is also heavily emphasized which can be a huge benefit for anyone with commitments outside of the workplace. If you are shying away from a job in academia or industry but still want to conduct meaningful research, a DoD job might be a good fit for you!

If this sounds interesting to you, Tweet me @jthoma91 and will be more than happy to answer any questions about the internship process and doing science with the Navy!

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First day of his Creativity in Science, Engineering and Technology program at NYU. #nyutandon #summersmarts (at NYU Tandon School of Engineering) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzqz0bCneVN/?igshid=1sfa10emkmy1c

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#education #changes #lives #career #inta #intanewyork #nyutandon #medgareverscollege #brooklyn #cuny https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw4HCoQgMIu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jwzwq7j1odwm

[productofevolution]

2 hours ago, we were getting ready for the procession and now the ceremony is almost over 💜💜💜 #nyu2017 #nyutandon (at Barclays Center)

[ablimpfallsfromacamera]

Today I'm The Master 👩‍🎓 and hopefully in 5 years (+/- a year) I'll be The Doctor 🧐 (Are Doctor Who jokes still funny in the year of our lord 2021?? 🙃)

Im super proud to announce that I have my MS in Computer Science and I am now officially #NYUTandonMade 🥳🥳🥳 Its funny because everything has always drawn me to @NYUTandon, and everything keeps drawing me back. Whenever Im in Downtown Brooklyn, even before I knew of Tandon or Poly as it use to be called, I somehow ended up at Metrotech. I'm also glad to say that this graduation wont be goodbye, because I'm also happy to announce I've been admitted into Tandons doctoral program🧙‍♀️ so I'll have hopefully 5 more years 🎉🎉🎉

So with that being said #NYU2021 and hopefully also #NYU2026 🎓

Also I just realized I missed the deadline to be featured in the virtual commencement on 19 May 😥😥😥

📷 @ab_scrolla ❤❤❤

[workofcer]

Saving the Lives of Life Savers

October 3, 2018

NYU Researchers and Major Urban Fire Departments Partner to Create Scenario-Based Simulation Training for Nationwide Firefighters

In celebration of Fire Prevention Week from October 7 – 13, 2018, we highlight NYU Fire Research Group’s impact in supporting the firefighters who risk their lives for us daily.

This year, people across the U.S. watched as destructive wildfires raged across California, Oregon, and Washington, and as the thousands of firefighters poured in from all over the country to help contain these fast-moving fires.

Though battling these wildland fires bears its own set of challenges compared to residential fires, firefighters must always strategize and coordinate their efforts to effectively manage a fire from spreading — no matter the location — while also ensuring their own safety.

Yet, researchers at the Fire Research Group at NYU Tandon School of Engineering discovered that many fire departments lack the resources and budget to train their firefighters in the latest advanced firefighting methods emerging out of research centers and from scientific studies.

ALIVE (Advanced Learning through Integrated Visual Environments) is a decades-long effort to bridge the information gap between research and real-life firefighting. Developed by the Fire Research Group under the leadership of Dr. Sunil Kumar, ALIVE is an online, scenario-based simulation training program created by a team of NYU Tandon Mechanical Engineering faculty and scientists working to disseminate firefighting tactics and research-based information to urban and rural fire departments. It is funded by the Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG).

Spearheaded by Dr. Prabodh Panindre, a Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Mechanical Engineering Faculty at NYU Tandon, ALIVE’s interactive online modules train firefighters in diverse firefighting issues such as residential fires, wind-driven high-rise fires, firefighter health and safety, and fire scenarios. Its latest module — Wildland Fires — focuses on training firefighters to manage and coordinate their attack methods on wildfires.

Culling together research, expertise from multiple fire departments and experts, and insight from national organizations such as the Underwriters Laboratories (UL), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Forest Service, the modules provide firefighters, including part-time and volunteer firefighters, with life-saving and critical information on combating various types of fires.

The modules are engaging, adaptive, data-driven, and live — allowing departments to understand where more training is needed in specific areas. The online training teaches critical firefighting concepts, and lets users immediately apply what they’ve learned to realistic scenarios and quizzes. Even if you select the wrong answer, the program explains why an answer is or isn’t the most effective way to address a situation based on scientific research, reinforcing the best actions for firefighters when they’re out in the field.

Fighting Fire with Scientific Evidence-Based Learning

“When we first started the project, it was centered on training the FDNY on high-rise fires,” Panindre explains. After seeing the positive response, the team behind ALIVE spent three years researching its effectiveness on a national scale and discovered that firefighters retained more information using ALIVE’s online modules versus the traditional classroom training. “Now, more than 75,000 firefighters from all 50 states have gone through our training modules. More than 1,000 departments are incorporating these modules into their own training programs,” shares Panindre.  

One such department is the Houston Fire Department, which has been an ALIVE partner for many years and incorporates the ALIVE modules into their classroom training.

Senior Captain Jeffery King of the Houston Fire Department (HFD), a partner with ALIVE and NYU Fire Research Group, knows the importance of disseminating advanced firefighting research to fellow firefighters, having lent his expertise to ALIVE’s module development for Residential Fires and Fire Scenarios. He shared that HFD’s continuing education program trained their whole department in August 2018 with the Fire Scenarios module, and currently all of its members are using the cardiovascular health module.

“In the last 15 to 20 years, we have learned more about the science of firefighting, a better understanding of how to do our job, and more about the physiological impact of firefighting – one of those being cardiovascular health,” King says. “The health and safety of each firefighter is paramount to a department’s success. Getting this information out to firefighters through the module is absolutely critical. NYU has done a phenomenal job of taking difficult information and putting it into a format that is easily understandable, deliverable to the people in the fire service, and in a means that can impact what’s going on every day in fire departments.”

“Around 50-60% of firefighters die of cardiac events,” Dr. Kumar explains. “Using scientific data and interviews, our module explains how cardiac arrest occurs, the impact of firefighting gear and hot environments upon their health, signs and symptoms, and how to prevent cardiac problems in fire service.”

Managing Destructive Wildfires

ALIVE is currently unveiling its new wildland fire module. Aimed to help first responders and initial incident attack commanders effectively manage wildland fires, the module addresses the unique challenges of wildland fires due to their erratic behavior, more difficult terrain, and dangerous environmental conditions. The NYU Fire Research Group partnered with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Los Angeles County Fire Dept. (LACoFD), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), and Barona Fire Department (BFD) in developing the module.

Nationwide wildland fire experts provided insight into the critical issues and training points, including Former Battalion Chief for Cal Fire Pete Scully. With over 33 years of active service battling wildfires, Scully tapped into his vast knowledge and own experiences to distill the best information into the module.

“I thought back to areas where I made mistakes, and my own first-hand experiences as a chief officer regarding how incidents were or weren’t properly managed,” he says. “Wildland fires can be very intimidating, and often when someone first arrives on the scene that isn’t experienced, they don’t take the time to manage and size up the big picture of the situation. Often, opportunities are missed. They might be focusing on where the most smoke or most flames are, but that’s not really where the most efficient use of resources is. This module is designed to get firefighters thinking about managing an incident properly and efficiently.”

Both Scully and Panindre agree that ALIVE’s modules are not meant to replace classroom training, but rather to supplement and complement training programs within a fire department, and help volunteer firefighters gain more training.

Emphasizing ALIVE’s accessibility, Panindre explained that “70% percent of the nation’s fire service are smaller, rural fire departments, yet they don’t have the budget or resources of larger departments like FDNY. We tried to focus on helping those firefighter departments who have few firefighters and resources, but want to increase their training. We make sure we can reach them through our modules.”

All ALIVE training modules are free for all firefighters and fire departments. Firefighters can access the free training modules on the Fire Research Group’s website, and through mobile applications. Fire departments interested in offering ALIVE training to their members can register by emailing the NYU Fire Research Group at fire.research@nyu.edu.

Originally published at: https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/saving-lives-life-savers

[nyureslifefaculty]

FFIR Chris Leslie hosted a “Cooking with Engineers” program this past Saturday for residents in Othmer Hall. The guest was Prof. John Di Bartolo from the Department of Applied Physics. The group made his recipe for Stuffed Chicken Breast with Roasted Potatoes.  YUM!

[harvardseas]

Alumna Rachel Greenstadt, Ph.D. ’07 (computer science) has joined the @nyutandon as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Greenstadt, who previously served as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at @drexeluniv, focuses her research on designing more trustworthy intelligent systems. She incorporates ideas from artificial intelligence, psychology, economics, data privacy, and system security into her research.⠀ #Harvard #HarvardSEAS #HarvardAlumni #faculty #professor #research #computerscience #AI #artificialintelligence @harvardgsas (at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtdojTGng5k/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ldpoj01bmfck

[hashtagnyu]

Experiences on the Route A

The trek from Washington Square to NYU Tandon is a treacherous one, but you can always take it in style! If you’ve ever used the NYU Shuttle, you’ll definitely know what we’re talking about. 😉 

1.  Early Bird Gets the Worm

You know that pure terror when you’re up at 7:15AM and remember the Route A shuttle leaves from NYU Tandon at 7:25 and also remember your first class is at 8:00 at Washington Square. 😱

2.  Feeling Like a Commuter

You just finished class at 12:20PM. You know you have 10 minutes to make it to the 12:30 shuttle leaving NYU Tandon. You get on, safe. Fast-forward 3 hours. Your class ends at 2:50 and you’ve got time to spare, you eat lunch, it’s 3:20. You’ve gotta run, your life depends on it. There’s a 3:30 shuttle from Washington Square to Tandon and your class starts at 4:00. The shuttle arrives at 3:52, safe. 

3.  Trolley Mood   

You know that fancy NYU Trolley that you’ve assumed would only be used on special occasions? You’re on it. Breezing by Chinatown and across the bridge in style. You’ve earned it. You’re at the top of your game and nothing can stop you. Ride those wooden seats to victory.

4.  Being Late and Accepting Your Fate

The NYU shuttle leaves at 9:25AM and you arrived at 9:27. You screwed up, kid. You couldn’t help it, those rotating doors in Kimmel bested you again. You arrive only to see the Route A bus’s cruel red lights leaving you behind. So long and thanks for the memories...

 5.  Lit (Music) Vibes

If you’re lucky enough, you’ve gotten on the trolley and you get to listen to those sick beats. Equipped with speakers, the NYU trolley blasts all your (or at least the driver’s) favorites.  

6. FREE

YOU. LOVE. FREE. STUFF. If it’s free, you’re there. What’s better than free food or a free ride? Who wants to pay that $2.75 to get to class, and then $2.75 more to get back home? That’s a whole $5.50. That’s an appetizer. The NYU shuttle is a blessing to your poor soul.

7.  Beyond the Bridge

As the wise Hannah Montana once said, you get the best of both worlds. You’re traversing the world of Washington Square and Brooklyn. And it’s great. 💜

[montclarelab]

So many birthdays in November here at Montclare Labs. Happy Birthday to our PhD candidate, Michael Meleties! May your #scientific wishes come true! 

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My girl Lou. #scienceofsmartcities #nyupoly #nyutandon (at NYU Tandon School of Engineering)

[productofevolution]

So nervous! #nyu2017 #nyutandon (at Barclays Center)

[johannesbambang]

I have successfully completed the Cyber Attack Countermeasures course from NYU Tandon via Coursera.

Thank you Dr. Edward G. Amoroso, NYU Tandon, and Coursera!

#EdwardAmoroso #NYUTandon #Coursera