New from me: I collaborated with Jeff Horwitz at The Wall Street Journal to study teen experiences on Instagram Reels and TikTok. TL;DR: There really is a very different experience for teens on TikTok, but not so much on Reels. Research behind the story in 🧵 1/5 wsj.com/tech/instagram…

#InstagramReels delivers more racy content to teens than #TikTok, despite #Meta’s efforts to minimize explicit content shown to younger audiences, a Northeastern U. researcher finds. Read more: bit.ly/4cq3jcm

Longtime friends Max von Hippel and Juan Castaño created Benchify to make code debugging easier. And after securing more than half a million dollars in startup funding in 2024, they're well on their way. Read more at: khoury.northeastern.edu/this-tool-find…

At Recorded Future Recorded Future, Maya Prasad and Felix Yang leveraged data to protect clients against myriad threats — and paved a path for their future careers in the process. khoury.northeastern.edu/co-ops-at-reco…

It was chaos, but the good kind! Shout out to the Khoury College of Computer Sciences faculty and all the Roux Institute at Northeastern staff and community members for enabling this free opportunity for Maine middle schoolers!

By selectively loading only the webpage elements that users need, browsers run more efficiently. Now that process, called "lazy loading," is getting a boost thanks to some new Khoury research. khoury.northeastern.edu/inside-the-new…

From the cobblestone-covered, centuries-old city of Leuven to the administrative center of the European Union, Khoury students made the most of their Dialogue of Civilizations in Belgium. khoury.northeastern.edu/pastries-and-p… Mark Fontenot

As AI chatbots proliferate, many CS students are using them to complete coding tasks. But new research indicates that this might not be a viable solution. Arjun Guha Molly Q Feldman khoury.northeastern.edu/can-newbie-cod…

Fresh off yet another trip to nationals, Northeastern's cybersecurity sleuths offer a look behind the curtain of an exhilarating, challenging competition. National CCDC Federico Cassano khoury.northeastern.edu/northeastern-c…

Powered by improved remote learning platforms, a multinational research team is bringing AI education to remote and Indigenous communities that might otherwise miss out. khoury.northeastern.edu/students-in-re… Dr. Saiph Savage Northeastern U. Vancouver UVic Engineering and Computer Science Northeastern Civic A.I. Lab

Maitraye Das has built her research career around accessible tech for people with disabilities. Now, with a Google research award backing her, she's delving into digital whiteboards. khoury.northeastern.edu/maitraye-das-e… Maitraye Das Northeastern CAMD NGN Research

Graduation stats are the most common measure of diversity in computing, but they are limited in their scope. To broaden participation in their departments, CS educators must also broaden their data analysis. khoury.northeastern.edu/want-to-broade… Dr. Valerie Barr Dr. Manuel A. Pérez Quiñones 🇵🇷✊🏽 Communications of the ACM

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In a recent ACM article, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Khoury Professor and Director of Cybersecurity at Northeastern's Arlington campus, discusses women's roles in cybersecurity, her contributions to "Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W", and more. Read here: bit.ly/3MVvGol

Using an algorithm inspired by insect behavior, a team of Khoury graduate students in Vancouver set out to solve a problem plaguing countless health care workers around the world. khoury.northeastern.edu/want-to-optimi… Michał Aibin Northeastern U. Vancouver