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  • Stacy Marsella
    General Gitalist Magazine

    Empathy: The Killer App for Artificial Intelligence

    • February 2, 2017
    Artificial intelligence that reads and responds to our emotions is the killer app of the digital economy. It will make customers and employees happier—as long as it learns to respect our boundaries. When psychologist Dr. Paul Ekman visited the Fore tribe in the highlands of Papua New Guinea in 1967, he probably didn’t imagine that his work would become the foundation for some of the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI).
  • General News at Northeastern

    What can we learn about cybersecurity from the Russian hacks?

    • January 24, 2017
    On Inau­gu­ra­tion Day, NBC News reported that the FBI—aided by the CIA, the National Secu­rity Agency, and the Trea­sury Department—was car­rying out a counter-​​intelligence inves­ti­ga­tion to learn how, as NBC’s Ken Dilanian put it, “Russia’s efforts to manip­u­late public opinion in the U.S. pres­i­den­tial election…was paid for and whether any Amer­i­cans were involved.” The month before, myriad news out­lets reported Russia’s hacking of the Demo­c­ratic National Com­mittee and other polit­ical orga­ni­za­tions to influ­ence the elec­tion, with both the CIA and FBI agreeing about the source and aim of the hacks.
  • General Huff Post

    Computing and the fight against epidemics

    • January 23, 2017
    Since the earliest times, humankind has been permanently at war with infectious disease. However, a few decades ago, the scientific community experienced the euphoria of imminent victory. The introduction of antibiotics. The culling of common diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, and polio. The eradication of smallpox. Each new milestone led practitioners and the public at large to believe that we were on the verge of routing the enemy once and for all.
  • Daniel Wichs
    General

    CCIS hosts Charles River Crypto Day

    • January 12, 2017
    By Christian Stafford On Friday, December 9th, 2016, Northeastern University played host to the Charles River Cryptography Day, or, “Crypto Day.” According to Northeastern CCIS Assistant Professor and event organizer, […]

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