The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings this year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.

“Parrots are incredibly socially complex creatures. They surpass 6- and 7-year-old children in puzzle tasks and memory skills.” That is Jennifer Cunha of Northeastern University. She co-authored the study.

Lonely parrots learn to call each other for a video chat. CNN’s Jeanne Moos reports.

Rashida Richardson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University School of Law, told me that AI has “lots of potential,” while stressing that there hasn’t been enough public discussion of “the many limitations of AI and of data itself.” Richardson has served as technology adviser to the White House and Federal Trade Commission.

To address these questions, Dr Hirskyj-Douglas collaborated with parrot behaviorist Jennifer Cunha, who is affiliated with Northeastern University, and is the co-founder of Parrot Kindergarten, Inc., an online coaching and educational program for companion parrots and their caregivers, and with the study’s lead author, creative technologist Rébecca Kleinberger, an assistant professor at Northeastern who is jointly appointed […]

Domesticated parrots that learned to initiate video chats with other pet parrots had a variety of positive experiences, such as learning new skills, researchers from Northeastern University, the University of Glasgow and MIT report this month in Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Such post-COVID demand for free food is “not a good signal” for the economy “and perhaps an indicator of an impending recession,” said John Lowrey, a business professor at Northeastern University whose research focuses on food bank management and public health.