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‘The best front-end engineer samurai there ever was’: Dispatches from the hackers of our future
Last month, Wired magazine told the story of seven computer science-obsessed friends in Stetson West who call themselves the “Sthacks,” short for “Stetson Hacks.” The group, Wired wrote, represented one […]
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Meet the graduates: Tevin Otieno
Tevin Otieno, CIS’17, says “Northeastern is what you make it.” With three co-ops, a hand in designing software for Boston Public Housing, and several campus ambassadorships under his belt, Otieno […]
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Researchers use Twitter to track the flu in real time
This flu is horrendous. Can’t breathe, can’t sleep or eat. Muscles ache, fever 102. Should have gotten the shot. Time for a movie marathon. The above tweet looks like 140 characters of misery. But in the hands of Northeastern’s Alessandro Vespignani and his colleagues, it is so much more.
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Op-Ed – Google and Facebook aren’t fighting fake news with the right weapons
We know a lot about fake news. It’s an old problem. Academics have been studying it — and how to combat it — for decades. In 1925, Harper’s Magazine published “Fake News and the Public,” calling its spread via new communication technologies “a source of unprecedented danger.”
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Northeastern celebrates community’s highest achievements
Northeastern University celebrated the highest achievements of students, faculty, staff, and alumni at the seventh annual Academic Honors Convocation on Thursday afternoon in East Village. The event honored a select […]
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CCIS student blends interests in technology, design, and the human experience
By Julia Renner Brittany Chiang, a junior information science major in the College of Computer and Information Science, carved out her own path at Northeastern, blending the technical aspects of […]
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Not Just Fun and Games: Students Work and Learn as Conference Associates at GDC
By Emily Ashbolt The Game Developers Conference (GDC), a week-long event held in San Francisco every year, is the largest conference in the game development industry. Attracting over 25,000 developers, […]
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