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Customer Data Collection at Home Depot Includes Real Errors
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (725+ words) A group of researchers including at Northeastern University sought to understand what type of data home improvement retailer Home Depot collected on its customers — and why bad data isn’t good. Christo Wilson is a regular customer at Home Depot. You…...
Northeastern professor pushes computers to solve ‘unsolvable’ problems
2+ week, 5+ day ago (588+ words) A groundbreaking method by a Northeastern researcher will help computers solve optimization problems used to minimize costs and energy. Don’t underestimate the power of a yes-or-no question. Some of the toughest computing problems boil down to thousands of tiny yes-or-no…...
Can Network Science Predict the World Cup?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (115+ words) Northeastern Global News What happens when you leave your phone behind at a concert? Researchers say Anthropic’s Claude Science will boost drug discovery After a decade of death, why are sea stars having a baby boom? A former NFL star…...
AI and physics have more in common than you might think
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (752+ words) “The basic premise is that AI can help us do better physics, and something that is less expected is that physics can also help us understand AI better,” said Northeastern professor James Halverson. There’s a reason that the boom of…...
The History of Network Science, Told by Leading Scientists
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (1035+ words) During NetSci 2026, the flagship conference for network science, two of the field’s most influential figures, Albert-László Barabási and Réka Albert, break down how far it has come and why it’s more important than ever. From the molecules that serve as…...
This researcher put AI in the big game. It did not play well
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (642+ words) Northeastern professor Lorenzo Torresani is interested in developing AI that can make sense of challenging group activities. A researcher analyzing reams of data. A traveler translating a foreign language. A student writing an essay. There are many ways that artificial…...
Higher learning
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (94+ words) Northeastern Global News Bike to the books Legal scholar elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Oakland, Silicon Valley graduates told degree is ‘not just a credential, it’s a connection’ Juliana Spahr wins Pulitzer for her latest poetry collection…...
Hands-on discovery
5+ mon, 39+ min ago (86+ words) Northeastern Global News Time to face off! Through sleet and syllabus Can two microbes work together to revolutionize biofuel? Could a servant and a nobleman marry in season four of Bridgerton? Jesse Jackson recalled for empathy, listening and Northeastern visits…...
How AI could speed treatment for patients with this deadly cancer
5+ mon, 2+ day ago (658+ words) A new AI tool from a Northeastern University researcher hopes to cut the testing time prior to treatment for a rare form of leukemia from a month down to a single night. Acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, is a rare…...
This brain-inspired hardware could make autonomous vehicles safer
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (574+ words) The researchers tested their vision system component in several simulation scenarios — including autonomous vehicle driving and robotic arm operations — to study its capacity to predict motion and track objects. Hop inside a robotaxi, cruising the streets of San Francisco or…...