News Category: General
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General News at Northeastern
‘The best front-end engineer samurai there ever was’: Dispatches from the hackers of our future
- May 11, 2017
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 […] -
General News at Northeastern
Meet the graduates: Tevin Otieno
- May 9, 2017
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 […] -
General News at Northeastern
Researchers use Twitter to track the flu in real time
- May 9, 2017
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. -
LA Times
Op-Ed – Google and Facebook aren’t fighting fake news with the right weapons
- May 9, 2017
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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