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Boston’s reports on possible reparations are set to be released this fall. Here’s what we know now.
The first, written by outside experts at Northeastern University and detailing discrimination against Black Bostonians after 1940, was submitted months ago, according to Mariangely Solis Cervera, the city’s Chief of Equity and Inclusion.
Big Ideas
The future of TRUTH — Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, philosopher A.C Grayling, journalist Barbara Demick, AI scientist Toby Walsh
Professor A.C Grayling, Philosopher and founder of Northeastern University London joins the podcast.
The Terri Cole Show
839 You Can Raise Your EQ at Any Age. Here Is Where to Start.
Lisa Feldman Barrett at Northeastern University spent decades studying how we construct and experience emotion. And her research has shown something really striking.
The Independent
I only saw my father once in 27 years. Then I became the dad I never had
Op-ed by Matthew Alemu, a Special Advisor, Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan; Northeastern University.
Parents
The One Question Parents Should Always Ask Before a Playdate
Research with Northeastern University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health conducted a national survey in 2021 and found 36% of homes with kids had unlocked firearms, while 37% had loaded ones.2
The Boston ska saga of Big D and the Kids Table continues
An interview with Dave McWane at Northeastern University where he teaches at the College of Arts, Media and Design.
Mother Jones
How Disability Shaped American Citizenship
In her new book Before Disability, Northeastern University professor Sari Altschuler, who studies American literature and culture, explores “how disability helped to shape US citizenship and, in turn, how the formation of US citizenship shaped disability.”
A robotic hand ‘talks’ to deaf and blind people. Here’s how it works.
Developed by Samantha Johnson, a bioengineering graduate of Northeastern University, Tatum1 uses gestures and touch to communicate with people who can neither see nor hear.
Why is UMass asking a Wall Street giant to revamp its dorms?
Northeastern University, MIT, and UMass campuses in both Boston and Amherst are among the schools that have followed this model.
Scientific American
Apple’s new Siri can run your digital life. The catch is privacy
“Autonomous agents significantly expand the attack surface for prompt injection,” says Natalie Shapira, a security researcher at Northeastern University, who studies AI agents. “The challenge is the chain of permissions and actions that connects the model to multiple applications and services.”
The Good Fight
David Bau on How—and Whether—Artificial Intelligence Thinks
David Bau is Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and Director of the National Deep Inference Fabric, researching the emergent internal mechanisms of deep generative networks in both Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision.
How Trump’s Age Is Shaping His Presidency
Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that by blasting Biden repeatedly, Trump “heightened the salience of age in assessing presidents and presidential candidates and likely caused voters to pay greater attention to age and ability than they might have otherwise.”