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Apr 29, 2014
A key to communication for locked-in syndrome patients
For the past seven years, one man receiving care from LifeStream, a Massachusetts-based human services organization, has only been able to communicate by blinking his eyes in response to yes-or-no […]
Apr 28, 2014
Freshman Patent Application
Freshman Computer Engineering student Leena Ahsan was awarded a patent application for creating a box that was collapsible as the contents are used. The invention boosts perforations, creases and the suggestion of […]
Apr 24, 2014
SDM14 Best Paper Award
Computer Engineering PhD student Sheng Li and ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SIAM International Conference on Data Mining […]
Apr 24, 2014
SDM Best Paper Award
Computer Engineering PhD student Sheng Li and ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SIAM International Conference on Data Mining […]
Apr 24, 2014
Sipahi Selected Fellow
MIE Associate Professor Rifat Sipahi has been selected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Dr. Sipahi was also the recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award […]
Apr 24, 2014
How to fix the Internet’s plumbing problem
Twenty-five years ago, an engineer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva Switzerland, had an idea that would change the world. Tim Berners Lee sent a memo to […]
Apr 23, 2014
Afternoon at the ‘museum’
It’s April 9, and a seventh grader from the James P. Timilty Middle School in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood is standing on a rotating platform on the third floor of Northeastern’s […]
Apr 22, 2014
3rd Patent in 3 Months
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina was awarded his third patent in three months for inventing a “Directed assembly of a conducting polymer”. His other two patents this year were for a […]