Cesareo Contreras

1 week ago | news.northeastern.edu | Cesareo Contreras

When Israel launched airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure last week, Israel said it was doing so to disrupt the development of nuclear weapons by Iran, which it claimed was nearing capability. Iranian officials have said that the country’s nuclear facilities are not being used to create weapons but solely for civilian purposes, primarily for the production of energy.

2 weeks ago | news.northeastern.edu | Cesareo Contreras

As the founder of Resilient Coders, a not-for-profit coding bootcamp, David Delmar Sentíes tries to stay up to date on the latest trends in software development. The organization recently began integrating artificial intelligence into its curriculum, recognizing the field’s growing importance. “There’s a huge market for people with AI skills,” Sentíes said while attending Northeastern University’s AI in Action Business Summit on the university’s campus in Portland, Maine.

2 weeks ago | news.northeastern.edu | Cesareo Contreras

With all the hype around chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, many business leaders feel pressured to quickly overhaul their operations using generative AI. That would be a mistake, says Usama Fayyad, senior vice provost for AI and data strategy at Northeastern University. Instead, it is better for companies to slow down, narrow their focus and start small.

3 weeks ago | news.northeastern.edu | Cesareo Contreras

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals faced overwhelming demand and limited space. To meet the need, many turned to a model that had existed for decades but had never gone mainstream: hospital-at-home care. The concept is simple — deliver the same level of medical treatment patients would receive in a hospital, but inside their homes. Massachusetts General Brigham was an early adopter, launching its home-hospital program in 2016 and expanding it significantly in the years that followed.

3 weeks ago | news.northeastern.edu | Cesareo Contreras

A massive plume of sand and dust has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to hit Florida and other Gulf Coast states by midweekSheila Puffer, a Northeastern University international business professor who studies the sand industry, says the plume is “more of a meteorological event than a geological one” that happens on an annual basis. The plume originated some 5,000 miles away in the Saharan desert of Africa days before, Puffer explains, to form what is called the Saharan air layer.