Meet Nexi. How do you feel about Nexi? Would you loan Nexi money? It turns out, scientists can change that perception by making subtle cues to Nexi’s robotic face. A study from researchers at Northeastern University (to be published in the journal Psy­cho­log­ical Sci­ence) discovered that there are a distinct set of cues–including touching the […]

Northeastern University’s athletics director, Peter Roby, has been named to the NCAA Division I men’s basketball committee, the NCAA announced Wednesday.

Timothy Bickmore, associate professor at Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science, has been working for the past decade in the area of “relational agents.” He says these artificially intelligent avatars are poised for a promising future in healthcare.

MIT’s Nexi robot has been teaching us about social interaction for years, and has even done a stint with the US Navy. Its latest role, however, involved studying those moments when society falls apart. Northeastern University researchers made Nexi the key ingredient of an experiment where subjects were asked to play a Prisoner’s Dilemma-style game […]

This week’s Twitter roundup of happenings in the business school world includes a new name for Northeastern University’s business school, an MBA student being mentored by New York City’s Michael Bloomberg, and a business school that shut down last week after a bomb threat on campus.  

Fewer foreclosures were started and completed in July as the Massachusetts housing market and overall economy continued to slowly improve, according to data released Monday. Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economist at Northeastern University, said the newest foreclosure numbers are in line with other recent statistics. “The economy has been fairly slowly but steadily improving. You would […]

A little-known provision of the state’s new health care cost-control law expands the role of physician assistants by casting them in the role of primary care providers.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, Democratic presidential nominee in 1988, believes abolition of the Electoral College and direct election of the president and vice president by popular vote would do away with the “disproportionate influence” of six to nine swing states that have determined recent presidential contests.  

Harry Partch, the startlingly original 20th-century American composer, is the focus of a rare three-day festival this week, co-presented by New England Conservatory and Northeastern University.

In a Northeastern University classroom, the architect of President Obama’s stimulus plan and a key economic adviser to presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid out competing visions on how to repair the nation’s economy — the issue that has come to define the election campaign.

Humans often make snap judgements about who to trust. Most people will say “I didn’t like the look of that person,” but what that means, exactly, has been elusive. Now a robot is helping to tease that out. At Northeastern University, psychology professor David DeSteno wanted to see what was going on. Working with partners […]

Getting from college to a paycheck is a big worry for young adults; in 2011, only 18% of college grads had job offers by the end of April before graduation, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.