Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Students Turn College Fight Songs into Award-Winning Data Visualization

Andre Bianchi and Sophia Perez’s dashboard reveals historical trends and recurring themes in fight songs, which earned them a spot at the Big Ten Academic Alliance Data Viz Championship.
IEEE

Minimum Distance Receiver using Dynamic Programming-Based Sparse Samples

Abstract: Sparse samples that maximize the detection of known deterministic signals in autoregressive Gaussian noise of order 1 can be precisely determined using dynamic programming. This study ...
GitHub

KAT - The K-mer Analysis Toolkit

KAT is a suite of tools that analyse jellyfish hashes or sequence files (fasta or fastq) using kmer counts. The following tools are currently available in KAT: kmer: Produces a k-mer hash containing ...
katu

St. Helens teen accused of plotting to kill ICE agents appears in court

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield is leading 23 other states, including Washington, in another lawsuit to block President Donald Trump's tariffs. Three arrested for beating death of homeless man ...
IEEE

Fast Mask Optimization Under Process Variation Using Guided Local Search on Quadratic Programming

Abstract: In advanced optical lithography, it is critical to obtain a mask with high fidelity to a target pattern and strong tolerance to process variation within a short time. This article formulates ...
thechurchnews

Using talents to serve: Creative ways Church members are serving their communities

When Lynda Morris’ son was born nine weeks early in 1984, he came home from the hospital connected to a machine to monitor his vitals. Morris said the newborn would pull on the cords, sometimes ...
The New York Times

Why Trump’s Calls to ‘Nationalize’ Voting Have Raised Midterm Fears

The president has escalated his language as his administration takes steps to involve itself more in election matters. The president has escalated his language as his administration takes steps to ...
Harvard Business Review

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and ...
The Hill

Man charged in alleged plot to kill OMB director Vought

A Maryland man whom authorities arrested last month has been accused of attempting to murder Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought, according to NewsNation, The Hill’s sister ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Waymo plotting return to Boston streets for autonomous vehicles

PASSENGER SEAT AND SEE WHAT IT WAS LIKE. SO TAKE A LOOK. I BELIEVE I’M IN THE RIGHT PICKUP LOCATION. IT’S LED ME TO A COMMERCIAL PARKING LOT, AND IT ALSO HAS GIVEN ME THE LICENSE PLATE OF THE CAR THAT ...
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Man sentenced to life in prison for plotting to kill Trump in 2024

FORT PIERCE: A man who plotted to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course in September 2024, two months before the US election, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison. Ryan ...