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How Computing Can Be Inclusive
The Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University is focused on reducing these barriers. According to Dean of Inclusive Computing Carla Brodley, through the Center for Inclusive Computing, the university has identified 10 research-based interventions that help colleges and universities to remove the barriers that prevent students from “discovering and thriving in computing programs.”
Drug Store News
Northeastern researchers track flu in real-time in 140 characters or less
An international team led by Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University has developed a unique computational model to project the spread of the seasonal flu in real time using Twitter. According to the researchers, posts on Twitter in combination with key parameters of each season’s epidemic, including the incubation period of the disease, the immunization rate, […]
Tech Republic
Rio Olympics 2016: How to keep your employees safe from the biggest scams at the summer games
Attackers are smart, and to make malicious emails more enticing for the victims, a frequent trick is to tie them to an event that is currently going on,” said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University. “As the Olympics are popular right now, users should expect to see malicious emails related to the […]
Boing Boing
Researchers find over 100 spying Tor nodes that attempt to compromise darknet sites
When it comes to accessing public websites, Tor has an intrinsic security problem: though the nodes between your computer and the public internet are unable to see where the traffic is coming from or going to, the final hop in the network (known as an exit node) gets to know what webserver you are connecting […]
WGBH
Ashley Madison leak, Planned Parenthood video & MSNBC
Ashley Madison – Hackers are threatening to out millions of customers of the website that promotes extramarital affairs. How should the media handle such disclosures? When are an individual’s sexual indiscretions newsworthy? Planned Parenthood – Some news outlets seemed dismissive of the troubling questions raised by the Planned Parenthood sting by focusing on the group […]
The State of the Union address in a single figure
In the lead-up to last night’s State of the Union address, a number of computational analyses of past SOTU speeches appeared, examining word frequency over time or constructing new pseudo-speeches out of past ones. Even something as simple as a word count or word cloud can communicate important insights into the key ideas in a […]
Forbes: Ebola is coming. A travel ban won’t stop outbreaks.
Professor Alex Vespignani, a physicist at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, has developed a computer model that predicts how air traffic affects the spread of Ebola. His team at the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems used a high-resolution map of human populations (3300 locations in 220 countries) and added daily airline […]
The new thing in Google Flu Trends is traditional data
The lesson seems to be that in fields like public health and economics, where there are long-standing information-gathering systems, the smart move is to marry the new data with the old. The new breed of data from the web, cellphones and sensors can be a powerful, knowledge-enhancing asset. But it is a signal, not thesignal. […]
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Keeping Personal Data Secure In The Internet Age
Most of us lock our doors every night. We stash our valuables out of sight and keep our savings in a bank. But in this increasingly digital world, it’s getting harder to protect the things we value most, including our privacy. In the past few weeks alone, Target customers became the target of a credit […]
Boston.com
Northeastern launches lab to empower social change, civic engagement
The success of a free massive open online course focused on philanthropy has prompted Northeastern University, which founded the course in partnership with the sister of billionaire Warren Buffett, to launch a laboratory designed to empower social change and civic engagement, campus officials said. The university announced this week the launch of the Social Impact Lab, describing […]
For Comfort and Posterity, Digital Archives Gather Crowds
The pressure-cooker bombs that exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon last April 15 shattered bodies and lives. But their impact was felt far beyond the blast radius as the shock spread and authorities set out to find the perpetrators. The ensuing manhunt put an already traumatized city on lockdown. One of the […]
Transition Begins in Boston, for First Time in a Generation
In addition, housing is limited. The new arrivals are competing with middle- and lower-income families for the older, existing housing stock, said Barry Bluestone, the director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. “The prices of triple-deckers are going through the roof now,” he said, and longtime residents are being […]