09-10-2008: Northeastern Receives 3.7 Million-Dollar ADVANCE Award from the National Science Foundation
Northeastern’s five-year program will build on the university’s existing projects by focusing on increasing recruitment of women, providing opportunities for networking to help advance female faculty, and fostering leadership development to oversee these opportunities across university departments.»
The ranking recognizes CCIS’ information technology graduate programs, including the Master in Information Assurance and Master in Health Informatics, as well as its Master in Computer Science.
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06-06-2008: Prof. Barabasi Discusses Groundbreaking Research on Human Mobility in Nature Cover Story
The authors were able to follow individuals in real-time and discovered that despite the diversity of their travel history, humans follow simple reproducible patterns.»
This distinction recognizes Northeastern's commitment to world-class information assurance and research, and commplements NU's existing Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education.
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02-15-2008: Northeastern University Robot Chats with Museum of Science Visitors
Prof. Timothy Bickmore explains that Tinker uses a deep dialogue model to carry on extended coherent conversations about multiple topics while communicating non-verbally as well. »12-17-2007: Northeastern University Professor Awarded Prestigious Fellowship for Computing and IT Innovations.
Professor Wand was recognized with the prestigious ACM Fellow Award for his contributions to type theory and program analysis. »11-19-2007: Northeastern University Receives NSF Grant to Raise Environmental Awareness with Computer Simulation Game
The Shortfall project will bring the growing concerns of environmental awareness and diverse learning styles together in an innovative learning model aimed at educating future engineering leaders. »
Prof. Barabasi is a pioneer in networking as a unified scientific theory and has examined network patterns in all aspects of life, from the spread of AIDS to social relationships, obesity, and cellular systems.
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09-18-2007: NU Professor Timothy Bickmore Creates Computer-Animated Agents that Counsel Users about Health Behavior
Computer Science Professor Timothy Bickmore is funded by $2.1M in NIH grants to develop computer-animated agents to counsel users about healthy behavior. »07-27-2005: Computer Science Major Publishes Book on Perl Testing
Computer Science Major Publishes Book on Perl Testing »