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Boston non-profit’s “tech cafe” helps seniors navigate phones and computers

Shults said they do this with the help of Northeastern University students like Stacy Abonce and Barbara Ortiz.
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Massachusetts lags on banning plastics

Joan Fitzgerald is a professor of urban and public policy at Northeastern University.
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Americans have poor math skills. It’s a threat to US standing in the global economy, employers say

Tran also loves math. This summer, he studied calculus five hours a day with other high schoolers in a program at Northeastern University.
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“These dollars are not reaching BIPOC newsrooms”: Tracie Powell and Meredith Clark on funding inequities and local news

This is an argument that Dr. Meredith Clark and Tracie Powell have been making for a long time. Clark is the director of Northeastern University’s Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change, and Powell is CEO and founder of The Pivot Fund, which raises money for BIPOC-led news outlets.
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Inno on the Road: New startups entering Maine ecosystem already have an impact

Over the last few years, organizations with roots in other states, including Massachusetts-based Northeastern University and the nonprofit Entrepreneurship for All, have begun expanding into Maine.
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Researchers find a way to make photos and muted videos ‘speak’ – here’s what it could mean for your privacy

By creating a machine learning tool called Side Eye, a team led by professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Northeastern University, Kevin Fu, can read into images to an extraordinary degree.
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Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes

“To me, the entire benefit of this type of analysis is using it as a starting point to engage police commanders and, when possible, community members in larger dialog to help understand exactly what it is about these causal factors that are leading to hot spots forming,” says Northeastern University professor Eric Piza, who has […]
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This Roxbury company is getting corporate America buzzing about bees

Annie Christie is a beekeeper who has worked at Best Bees for two years. She began the job as part of a co-op program at Northeastern University where she studies environmental science. She never expected beekeeping would become a career.
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The Mississippi River has careened between floods and low-water levels in recent years. Samuel Muñoz, a Northeastern University professor who has researched the river basin, attributed this in part to El Niño and La Niña climate cycles and a changing climate that has made droughts and floods more extreme.

Blue cities rethink their embrace of progressive drug policies

And that’s definitely visible,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor at Northeastern University who studies the public health impact of laws.
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Advisory Boards Aid in Alleviating AI Anxiety

Northeastern University created an external AI board, co-chaired by two faculty members and joined by industry heavyweights including Honeywell and the Mayo Clinic.

It’s Possible To Extract Audio From A Still, Soundless Image

However, professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Northeastern University Kevin Fu saw the review and set about showing that extracting audio from images and silent video, at least, is possible.