Boston Emergency Services also responded to the scene.Ī police bomb squad sealed off a part of the campus to investigate the suspicious package, according to Boston police. A second package was discovered during the search but was rendered safe by the bomb squad.ĭEVELOPING INTO THE EVENING: For an update later tonight, sign up for the Evening Briefing. ![]() The investigation is still ongoing and local police are currently working with representatives from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said during the news conference.Ĭlasses in the surrounding area of the scene were canceled and people were asked to avoid the area, university police tweeted. Shortly before 9 p.m., university police said the scene was contained. "We will update members of the Northeastern community when more information is available," Nargi said in the email. The university sent out an alert late Tuesday night stating that, "we expect the campus to be open and fully operational" on Wednesday.Northeastern University professor Mauro Martino is one of the minds behind IBM’s Watson News Explorer, a dashboard that allows users to explore the themes surfacing across the news ecosystem. Martino spoke last week at NUVis, Northeastern’s Visualization Consortium seminar series, about his work with artificial intelligence - or machine learning, as he prefers to call it - and visualization as a path to “accelerate human knowledge.”Īn award-winning design artist and director at the Cognitive Visualization Lab at IBM, Martino shared many insights on how journalists and other professionals can offer more meaningful storytelling by marrying data visualization and artificial intelligence. Below, a few takeaways from Martino’s talk. Martino’s research focuses on how information technology relates to exploration and the dissemination of knowledge. Through artificial intelligence and data visualization, he believes people can expand the reality in front of them with complex classification and connections that emerge from computer analysis. “If you ask the machine to read books with you,” explains Martino, “you can identify different types of topics, styles and language used, and the emotion that emerges and even understand which one is your favorite.”Īccording to Martino, even scientists and specialists could benefit from AI. “Nobody should be scared of what machine learning and deep learning technology can do,” he says. AI is a commodityĪs one of the leading researchers and designers in the world of artificial intelligence data visualization, Martino recognizes the power of the tools the field has been producing. ![]() At the Cognitive Visualization Lab, he and his peers work to expand AI’s impact worldwide in fields including journalism but stretching as far as medicine. It creates a partnership between the people and computers, and accelerates human knowledge and expertise.” AI is data viz in real-time “This is a multiple-step process and it pushes people to analyze and start a dialogue with the machine,” he says. Showcasing some of his recent projects, such as the soon-to-be-launched IBM Watson interface, Martino explained that this kind of work can be an asset for decision-making, exploration and discovery. ![]() ![]() “It can present us with different interpretations of the reality, create predictions, and make some synthesis of information.” “When we are working, this technology can help us in real-time to make the best decisions,” he says.
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