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Imagine 100 million divers jumping into the ocean at once. Your task: Using high speed cameras, photograph the wake of each splash, then determine and plot exactly where each diver entered the water. That’s somewhat analogous to what a group of NIU physicists were trying to accomplish earlier this year using a technique known as...

The Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs has recognized NIU employee Jonathan J. Lehuta, a prominent veteran leader in DeKalb County with more than 30 years of service to his community, county and to his fellow vets, as the Illinois Veteran of the Month for April 2013. Lehuta, a U.S. Navy veteran, was honored Friday during...

She goes by only one name but can sure put two and two together. Huri, a freshman who uses only the single name and is native of China, took home first place in this year’s Northern Illinois University Mathematics Contest. The NIU computer science major, who is more immediately from Maple Grove, Minn., outscored a...

More than 15 years ago, the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology partnered with Omron to provide internships to NIU students. In working with NIU students and faculty, Omron became fond of CEET’s curriculum, seeing that it had laid a great theoretical platform for students entering the workforce. Later, Omron donated safety and automation equipment...

James D. Norris, who served Northern Illinois University for more than two decades as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and emeritus professor, died Wednesday, Jan. 16. He was 82. Norris came to NIU in 1979. Leading the largest college at the university, he was instrumental in creating several new academic units,...

NIU’s Department of Computer Science is touting its new certificate program in one of the hottest areas of computer programming – development of apps for mobile devices. The four-course certificate program aims to teach undergraduate or graduate students how to write apps for the iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and other mobile-device platforms. Graduates of the...

October is career fair season at NIU. With many companies coming to campus to network with students, this is an ideal time to think about life post-graduation. NIU’s College of Engineering & Engineering Technology (CEET) hosts its own job fair each year, catering to the career and internship needs of CEET students. This year, computer...

Mitch Downey and Vincent Schramer aren’t running for political office, but they want your vote nonetheless – and your help. The NIU students could be on the verge of something big as they prepare to launch new a “civic engagement social network,” known as EveryVote.org. The EveryVote network aims to connect the politically disconnected. It...

NIU scientists have acquired a new high-performance computer cluster that will exponentially ramp up on-campus capabilities to sort and analyze large quantities of research data. The hybrid GPU/CPU supercomputer has a capacity of more than 30 teraflops, meaning it can do more than 30 trillion calculations per second. It is expected to usher in a...

Northern Illinois University computer science students turned in a top performance in the annual IBM Master the Mainframe contest. The contest, which allows students to distinguish themselves in mainframe computing abilities, drew nearly 4,000 participants from across the United States and Canada. Students compete in three rounds, each of which becomes more challenging. Those who...

Gov. Pat Quinn today announced the appointment of Wheeler G. Coleman to the Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees. Coleman, 51, graduated from NIU’s nationally respected computer science program in 1983 with a degree in applied data processing. He later earned an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He currently holds the positions of...

The Illinois Technology Association (ITA) Fall Challenge is focused on keeping talented computer science and computer engineering students in the Midwest. This year, the Illinois Innovation Council and Gov. Pat Quinn are partnering with the ITA to reach more students at more universities for the second year of the challenge. Alumni champions from the sponsoring...