Venture Forum in Hoboken: Stevens’ Research Day

Stevens Institute held its Research and Entrepreneurship Day conference this past Friday.

It was a chance for this engineering school to give the public a peek at tech projects that have been incubated by professors and students with the goal to commercialize the university’s IP.

Project such as CADEyes (dimensional maps from lasers and cameras), Attila (broadband technology that grabs simultaneous bandwidth from multiple networks), and other efforts were presented during the afternoon’s Venture Forum.

I wasn’t able to make it.

However, one of the spin-off companies, called Instream Media, which developed algorithms to detect deception in text communication, has software that can be tested by anyone.

I decided to give it a try.Continue reading