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Assistant Professor of Computer & Information Science

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David Smith In the Media

David Smith for Northeastern

The scribblings of John Adams might help build a better search engine

David Smith, an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science and a founding member of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, received an $82,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to extract information about readers from scanned texts.
- by Khalida Sarwari December 20, 2018
How to get science research covered in the press

Northeastern researchers used machine learning to uncover patterns in how the media covers science. Among their findings was that media coverage is often determined more by the subject matter of the research than by its scientific importance.
- by Bill Ibelle July 10, 2018
Professor mines for historical memes

Ryan Cordell, an assistant professor of English and a digital humanities expert, is using a newly digitized corpora of historical texts, including newspapers, magazines, and novels, to identify the popular elements of 19th-century culture.
- by Angela Herring June 17, 2013

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