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Son of exonerated man: “It’s…joyful and painful”

ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke with Edward Smith, son of Tommy Lee Walker, about his father being declared innocent after 70 years and professor Margaret Burnham on what this means for justice.
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The ICE hiring boom

Matthew Ross is an economist at Northeastern University who studies police training.
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Northeastern prof: The state’s AI momentum faces a regulatory threat

Dr. Saiph Savage is an assistant professor at Northeastern University in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, where she directs the Northeastern Civic A.I. Lab.  
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This Mass. university broke its own application record for the seventh straight year

Northeastern University has once again hit an application record this year, its seventh consecutive increase.
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Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die

 “As you age—just like humans—you are likely to get more disease,” says Devesh Tiwari, who researches high-performance computing at Northeastern University.
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How Mexico’s ‘CJNG’ Drug Cartel Embraced AI, Drones, and Social Media

A study by El Colegio de México, in collaboration with the Civic AI Lab at Northeastern University in Boston, revealed that TikTok has become a recruitment tool for Mexican cartels, including CJNG. 
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What would the stock market and economy look like without AI?

Companies in the Magnificent 7 are also not taking out an excessive amount of debt to finance their AI investments and are instead relying on their internal cash flows, said John Bai, a finance professor at Northeastern University.
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After killing of top drug lord, cartels use fake news to spread fear in Mexico

Pablo Calderon, an associate professor in politics and international relations at Northeastern University London, said cartels use social media to amplify their image and power and to shape public opinion, including through misinformation.
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Trump’s Section 122 tariffs could spur new legal battle, experts say

“It’s more harmful than having higher tariffs, because businesses don’t want to invest when they’re not sure what is going to happen,” international trade economist Asha Sundaram, chair of the economics department at Northeastern University, told CBS News.

Paul Revere on a pub crawl? Founders made history in these taverns

Malcolm Purinton teaches history at Northeastern University in Boston, but he’s also known as the Beer Historian. 

The SYRN Call of Oddly Spelled Brand Names

Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University in Boston, said that brand names — called marks, in legalese — have to fulfill certain criteria in order to be deemed explicitly distinctive, rather than descriptive, by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 

World Cup Crowds Could Be Targeted. This Team Worked to Keep Them Safe.

NY Times’ “Lost Science” series profiles Michael Silevitch, who leads SENTRY, a research center dedicated to protecting busy public spaces, and last April was instructed to “end all work” immediately.