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The Boston ska saga of Big D and the Kids Table continues

An interview with Dave McWane at Northeastern University where he teaches at the College of Arts, Media and Design.
Mother Jones

How Disability Shaped American Citizenship

In her new book Before Disability, Northeastern University professor Sari Altschuler, who studies American literature and culture, explores “how disability helped to shape US citizenship and, in turn, how the formation of US citizenship shaped disability.”
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A robotic hand ‘talks’ to deaf and blind people. Here’s how it works.

Developed by Samantha Johnson, a bioengineering graduate of Northeastern University, Tatum1 uses gestures and touch to communicate with people who can neither see nor hear.
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Why is UMass asking a Wall Street giant to revamp its dorms?

Northeastern University, MIT, and UMass campuses in both Boston and Amherst are among the schools that have followed this model.
Scientific American

Apple’s new Siri can run your digital life. The catch is privacy

“Autonomous agents significantly expand the attack surface for prompt injection,” says Natalie Shapira, a security researcher at Northeastern University, who studies AI agents. “The challenge is the chain of permissions and actions that connects the model to multiple applications and services.”
The Good Fight

David Bau on How—and Whether—Artificial Intelligence Thinks

David Bau is Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and Director of the National Deep Inference Fabric, researching the emergent internal mechanisms of deep generative networks in both Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision.
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How Trump’s Age Is Shaping His Presidency

Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that by blasting Biden repeatedly, Trump “heightened the salience of age in assessing presidents and presidential candidates and likely caused voters to pay greater attention to age and ability than they might have otherwise.”
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Fifth-graders spot n-word printed in school dictionary, sparking parent backlash in Milton

The quick mobilization is reminiscent of the boon in community activism in Milton six years ago amid a nationwide racial reckoning, said Régine Jean-Charles, a Milton resident and director of Africana Studies at Northeastern University.
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‘The Vampire Lestat’ Delivers A Visual Feast That Is Sure To Satiate

William Sharp, an associate teaching professor of psychology at Northeastern University says what sets the vampire apart is its emphasis on the taboo.
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The American Revolution ran on beer

Malcolm Purinton joins NPR to discuss the role of beer during the American Revolution.
Mass Live

Residents, public health experts sound alarm on Worcester loosening tobacco rules

Chris Banthin, a program director for the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University, said he expects to attend the June 15 meeting to publicly oppose the change in restrictions.
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The World Is Changing Completely, and the Signs Are Getting Faster On Campuses

Universities are now launching programs at such a rapid pace that it’s difficult to accurately track their numbers. However, according to a New York Times report based on data from Northeastern University’s Center for Inclusive Computing, there are at least 74 AI majors and 89 sub-majors available on US campuses.