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General News at NortheasternIs that a turnip or a bomb?
- May 4, 2016
Computer science professor Mitchell Wand has a surefire way of introducing his research in social settings. "When people come up to me at a cocktail party and ask about my research, I tell them this: Somewhere down in the bowels of the Pentagon is this guy whose job is to write a computer program. The program will take the video feed from a drone over in Afghanistan or Iraq, or wherever drones fly these days, and figure out if that guy kneeling on the side of the road is planting turnips or planting a bomb." -
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Bridging Music Technology and Composition with Software
- April 21, 2016
Graduating music technology students will present their compositions at the Music Composition and Technology Senior Capstone Recital in the Fenway Center (77 St Stephen St) this Saturday, April 23. Among […] -
CCIS Alum Chris Lambert Leads Lyft’s Tech Teams
- April 21, 2016
CCIS graduates are taking on leadership roles throughout the computer science and tech fields, whether as professors, startup founders or company heads. Take for example Chris Lambert (BSCS ’07) who […] -
CCIS Funds Women Undergrads to Attend WECode Conference
- April 21, 2016
Forty-four CCIS women received funding from the college to attend the Women Engineers Code – WECode – conference organized by Harvard University and MIT in February. The three-day conference, held […] -
General News at Northeastern
Valkyrie has landed
- April 15, 2016
Valkyrie—the 6-foot-2-inch, 275-pound humanoid robot on which an interdisciplinary team of Northeastern students and faculty will perform advanced research and development work—is up and walking. On Wednesday, a NASA team […] -
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