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Tech-Savvy Mentors Help Youth Create Video Games

What do the Pythagorean theorem and cartoon characters like Casper the Friendly Ghost and Stewie from Family Guy have in common? They were both used this spring semester to help teach local youth how to create video games, with the assistance from student volunteers studying computer science and business at Northeastern. The initiative revolves around [...]

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Know Thine Enemy

William Robertson got his first taste of how vulnerable the world’s cyberinfrastructure is during the 1990s, when he hacked into computer networks. He did it for the adrenaline rush, says the assistant professor, and out of sheer curiosity. “I was interested in system penetration and doing remote reconnaissance just to see what I could find,” [...]

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3Qs: What to Know About the New Bird Flu Virus

Earlier this month, the U.S. government declared that the emerging H7N9 bird flu “poses a significant potential for a public health emergency.” The virus, a relative of other bird flus we’ve seen previously like H1N1 and H5N1, originated in China and results in a severe respiratory infection and, in some cases, death. While the virus [...]

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Albert-László Barabási Maps the Disease Network

One of the world’s foremost network scientists, Barabási is leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers on a quest to construct the human “diseasome”—the sum of all human diseases and the ways they relate to one another. This map of human diseases would revolutionize medicine on all levels, says Barabási, enabling researchers to understand the molecular [...]

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Tech-Savvy Mentors Help Youth Create Video Games

Know Thine Enemy

3Qs: What to Know About the New Bird Flu Virus

Albert-László Barabási Maps the Disease Network