A fiscal forecast for Massachusetts If 40 pages of statistics, tables, graphs, and economic analysis could generate any buzz at all, the state’s release of its report on long-term fiscal policy would have garnered front-page headlines. Indeed, it should have, for this may be the first time ever a governor has asked for a five-year budget plan anticipating future revenues […]
A Winning School: Lessons from a Highly Successful Massachusetts High School One of Massachusetts’ public high schools has a 97 percent graduation rate and a dropout rate of less than .02 percent (3 out of 1,323 students). It ranks among the highest percentage of students scoring advanced or proficient in the 2011 MCAS assessments (97% in Language Skills; 85% in Math; and 91% in Science.) The school valedictorian […]
38 Studios’ Copernicus could be a losing battle Veteran video game designer Aubrey Hodges says the best work he ever did was for 38 Studios LLC’s Project Copernicus, Curt Schilling’s ambitious effort to develop the next blockbuster game. “It looked stunning. It sounded great. That’s the heartbreak,” said Hodges, a former audio director at 38 Studios.
Design News Sensor-Laden T-Shirt Sweats Workout Details A team of students at Northeastern University in Boston has combined medical and Web-based technologies to create an intelligent T-shirt that can dynamically track a person’s workout.
ABC News Etan Patz Mystery: 99 Percent of Abductors Never Kill Victims Thirty-three years after the disappearance of Etan Patz, the only suspect ever arrested is as much an enigma as the missing child case that has baffled investigators for decades.
PCWorld This DIY Robot Can Feed You, Be Controlled With Just a Look Six electrical- and computer-engineering students from Northeastern University thought that robotics’ most useful creation should be used in more ways to assist mankind. And so they hacked together a robotic feeding arm that you can control with your just eyes.
Salon When the 1 percent say no Continuing the grand tradition of privileged communities opposing transit projects, the good people of 90210 are fighting a plan to run a subway below Beverly Hills High School.
ABC News Best Commencement Speeches of 2012 Graduation speakers include President Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Jane Lynch.
Tweets helped team predict ‘American Idol’ winner When Phillip Phillips won “American Idol” last Wednesday night, a team of researchers from Northeastern University was not surprised. The scientists had risen early that morning to analyze about 100,000 messages posted overnight on the social network Twitter and made the prediction that despite his competitor’s greater worldwide support, the eligible population — residents of […]
Engadget Northeastern University students develop eye controlled robotic arm that’s happy to feed you As an alternative to receiving brain implants for robotic arm dominance assistance, check out this surprisingly cheap eye-tracking solution developed by six electrical engineering students at Northeastern University. Labeled iCRAFT, for eye Controlled Robotic Arm Feeding Technology, the award-winning senior project drew its inspiration from one team member’s difficulty syncing spoonfuls with the eating pace of elderly and disabled patients.
The Face That Changed The Search For Missing Kids Etan Patz’s disappearance haunted his family for decades. The arrest Thursday of a man who reportedly confessed to killing the 6-year-old back in 1979 may finally end their uncertainty.
Mass Live Mitt Romney: U.S. students getting ‘third-world education,’ proposes school choice program Republican presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday laid out a plan to overhaul the country’s educational system, proposing a voucher-like system that would give parents of low-income students and students with disabilities more choice over where to send their children.