Running through the streets of Boston, all Robert LaFrance could think about were the chocolate chip pancakes from IHOP. It’s what got him through the 12 miles as he trained for the Boston Marathon.
But when he dragged his tired legs into his apartment, he didn’t indulge in pancakes. He couldn’t.
Alex Ahmed, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in personal health informatics, lives with three other people in an apartment in Jamaica Plain. Like other graduate students who work as teaching or research assistants, she receives a tuition waiver and lives off a stipend provided by the university.
As the data visualization community pushes forward with new technologies, it is leaving a part of the general public behind, a prominent data journalist and visualization expert told the Northeastern community Thursday.
Text-to-speech technology has become widely available in modern society, granting verbal communication to millions. But, with a limited set of voices available, users are unable to identify themselves by sound. It was this problem that led to the creation of VocaliD.
Two Democratic candidates for Massachusetts governor harshly criticized the state’s politics while discussing new solutions to fix economic inequality and social issues in an event held by Northeastern University College Democrats Saturday night.
The American Mathematical Society has honored Northeastern University professor Ivan Losev with a fellowship for his research, which uses algebra to understand quantum mechanics, and his contribution to geometric representation theory and the theory of categorification.
A team of Northeastern students traveled to Brisbane, Australia, to compete in the final rounds of an international robotics challenge Nov. 20 to 24. Northeastern’s team was one of 10 finalists and was the only team from the United States to qualify.
