 The project focused on bringing Teletext, a new media technology developed in Great Britain, to the United States.That same year, the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) was established at NYU, and Nisenholtz became one of its founding faculty members in 1979.Nisenholtz remained in New York, never returning to complete his Ph.D.

Nisenholtz is currently married to Anne Nisenholtz and together they have two daughters, Johanna and Marjorie.