The collaborative study between researchers from Northeastern University, MIT and the University of Glasgow, found that the birds showed improved behaviour and well-being over a three month period.

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.

Julia Varshavsky, an environmental scientist at Northeastern University’s PFAS Project Lab, said the EPA’s move amounted to a declaration that any level of PFAS was unsafe. 

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.

Dr. Rébecca Kleinberger, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Lab, is a co-author of the paper. 

Dr Jennifer Cunha, Affiliate Researcher at Northeastern University and study co-author, said: ‘We saw some really encouraging results from the study. 

Video calling could reproduce some of the social benefits of living in a flock, according to Dr Rébecca Kleinberger, of Northeastern University and first author of the study.

Parrots are popular pets, but they are highly intelligent creatures that need social connection and mental stimulation. A team of scientists wondered whether technology might help provide it. So they enrolled 18 parrots and their owners in an unusual experiment: Would the birds connect over video calls?

A mass killing is defined as the slaying of four or more people other than the perpetrator, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.

A mass killing is defined as the slaying of four or more people other than the perpetrator, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.