University Carlos III of Madrid has selected NJIT Distinguished Professor Emerita Starr Roxanne Hiltz as the holder of a "Chair of Excellence" for the 2010-2011 academic year. She will be working on human-computer interaction research related to Emergency Response Information Systems.  Murray Turoff, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of NJIT's Information Systems Department, will accompany her as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Informatics, teaching a course and conducting research with the Interactive Systems Group. . >>

Two NJIT computing pioneers will be lauded next month in a traditional European manner—with a festschrift—for their pioneering book The Network Nation, published in 1978, which foresaw the upcoming communications revolution and social networking. Festschrift will be held Oct 12-13, 2007, in the NJIT Campus Center. >>