Here’s a cool new FB app from computer sciences professor, Alan Mislove. It’s called Friendlist Manager and it makes using lists on the social-network (a.k.a. time sink) a whole lot easier (as if you needed anything on FB to be easier, since you don’t already spend enough time there). Mislove uses network information to build ...
It only comes around every four years, so we may as well celebrate it. College of Sciences dean, Murray Gibson, gives a little more insight about the point of this awesome bonus day, why we need it, and where it came from in a 3Qs on the News@Northeastern today. Since the two phenomena that define ...
Since I arrived, I’ve heard a lot of talk about Heather Clark’s nano-sensors around campus. I finally got the chance to meet her this morning and learn more about her work. By now, most of the Northeastern community is familiar with the smart-phone app that a couple of Clark’s grad students designed to help people ...
In a kick off event to the American Physical Society meeting taking place in Boston this week, the College of Science invited James Kakalios of the University of Minnesota to make physical sense of some very improbable superhero phenomena. I was bummed to miss it, but my colleague Greg St. Martin went. Here’s the piece ...
This week at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society, a group of Northeastern scientists will present the Monet painting of the future. This pile of hay bales is not a close up of a lost classic from the impressionist master’s late-nineteenth century haystack series. Instead, it’s a close-up of magnetic nanowires. Pegah M. ...
The nation’s healthcare system is facing a financial crisis. It’s not big news. We’ve all known it for years. The planet (and the economy) is struggling to accommodate the largest population it’s ever had in a time when people are living longer than ever. “Everyone agrees that something needs to change, but how it will ...
…but it’s not too long for an awesome acronym that can help big time, power hungry computational programs do their jobs better! Gene Cooperman of the College of Computer and Information Sciences began tinkering with parallel computing over a decade ago, exploring the possibility of using 10 computers to do in 1 hour the job ...
Of the 700,000 new stroke cases each year, only 37% regain the ability to walk. That means more the 440,000 people requiring mobility assistance are added to the overburdened healthcare system annually — and that’s just stroke patients. Rehabilitation is obviously a key component to changing these statistics, but without quantitative data not much can ...
Nanotechnology is a huge field. When I worked at a nanomaterials start-up my dad would often ask me about developments in nanomedicine and I had no clue what to say. Nanotechnology enables new applications in medicine, electronics, materials — pretty much anything you can imagine. But, fundamentally, it’s pretty simple: It’s about making things so ...
Dagmar Sternad could compete for most passionate researcher on campus and land a seat near the top. Her stern gaze and flaming red hair only add to her intensity. Sternad is a professor of biology, electrical and computer engineering and physics, but as she says, “don’t even try to label me.” Her work, which focuses ...
Have you ever heard of hydrogen exchange as an analytical technique? I hadn’t until the day before yesterday. Actually, I hadn’t heard of hydrogen exchange, period. Forget the qualifier. I know you’re bursting at the seams to find out, so I won’t make you wait any longer. Hydrogen exchange is exactly what it claims to ...
When I got to work this morning I found a heart shaped chocolate sitting on my door handle. My first thought was “Score! Chocolate for breakfast!” It didn’t occur to me to consider a secret admirer (that fantasy was broken along with my heart long ago in eighth grade). Later, when I went to the ...