Character study In a constantly changing world, it sometimes seems that our only anchor is personal character. Strip away fashion, politics, and pretense, and whatâs left is the true grit at the core of every person, forged early in life, that gives us the gumption to win elections or the weakness to succumb to temptation. But put […]
Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ reignites a debate: Is Jet Black a Black anime character? That makes “Cowboy Bebop” part of a larger phenomenon observed by scholars like Amy Lu, associate professor at Northeastern University. In a 2009 study, Lu asked more than 1,000 people to identify the race of nearly 350 anime protagonists, based solely on images of their faces. “Cowboy Bebop’s” Spike Spiegel was one of them.
Salon Bullies aren’t all sociopaths — most are just trying to climb the social ladder, study says “Our study differs from most of the previous work on adolescent bullying in that we don’t focus solely on the individual characteristics of young people, but instead pay attention to the broader social context in which adolescents are situated,” Dr. Cassie McMillan, professor of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University, told Salon by email.
Venture Beat NIST study finds that masks defeat most facial recognition algorithms But crucially, NIST didn’t take into account systems designed specifically to identify mask wearers, like those from Chinese company Hanwang and researchers affiliated with Wuhan University. In an op-ed in April, Northeastern University professor Woodrow Hartzog characterized masks as a temporary technological speed bump that won’t stand in the way of increased facial recognition use in the age of […]
NBC News Facebook can tell if you’re gay based on a few ‘likes,’ study says “While some online users may benefit from being targeted based on inferences of their personal characteristics, others may find such inferences unsettling,” the study’s authors, who hail from Columbia Business School, New York University and Northeastern University, wrote.
Lax gun policies may be linked to stolen firearms in US, study finds Gun owners who carry guns outside their homes, stash them in their cars – or simply own lots of them – are more likely to have their guns stolen, according to a study published Monday in the journal Injury Epidemiology. The study, by leading public health researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities, is the first […]
Semafor AI is helping scientists and startups fight El Niño “Some of the strongest benefits of AI are in the areas of climate and weather,” said Auroop Ganguly, climate director at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI and author of a recent study that used AI to study how El Niño changes the flow of major rivers like the Ganges and Amazon. In older computer models of […]
Business Insider Scientists were delighted to discover that parrots willingly made video calls to bird friends and were less lonely as a result “I think birds in captivity have been misunderstood and mischaracterized for years,” said Jennifer Cunha, parrot behavior expert, researcher at Northeastern University, and one of the study’s authors.
ProPublica Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate Against Women and Older Workers, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement One reason for the persistent bias is that Facebook’s modified algorithm appears to rely on proxy characteristics that correlate with age or gender, said Alan Mislove, a Northeastern University professor of computer science and one of the study’s co-authors. “
These are the sneaky new ways that Android apps are tracking you This study and another presented Thursday—’Panoptispy: Characterizing Audio and Video Exfltration from Android Applications,’ by Elleen Pan of Northeastern University with Jingjing Ren, Martina Lindorfer, Christo Wilson, and David Choffnes—did not, however, report evidence that Facebook’s apps were exploiting any loopholes to surreptitiously listen to ambient real-world audio.
Inc.com Research shows women business owners have a harder time getting loans Academic research has also found that women who start companies have a tougher time getting loans, and that bank officers used different criteria for them. A 2014 study by professors at Northeastern University and Babson College found that women received smaller loan amounts than men whose companies had similar characteristics like past performance and number […]
The Conversation We’re suing the federal government to be free to do our research Our own research seeks to identify these problems through study and scholarship, without needing to wait for whistle-blowers to spill the beans. We leverage real users and fake accounts created by us to compile data from online services. Using these data, we try to tease out how black-box algorithms work: What data do they use? […]