One of their own Peter Roby, an athletics director at Northeastern University who has described the stratification of college sports as a “monster,” said that Luck and his staff must remember that there are 1,000 institutions in the NCAA outside of the autonomous leagues. “The issues here are broader than just 65 schools,” Roby said. “The issues we face […]
Brookline banned anyone born this century from buying tobacco in town. The rule is ‘clever,’ but is it legal? “I would think [tobacco companies] may consider it a bit of a long shot, but a potentially mortal threat to their industry,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s School of Law, which is representing Brookline in the lawsuit.
Scientific American How AI Knows Things No One Told It Aspen K. Hopkins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Bau of Northeastern University; and Fernanda Viégas, Hanspeter Pfister and Martin Wattenberg, all at Harvard—spun up their own smaller copy of the GPT neural network so they could study its inner workings.
Scientific American How AI Knows Things No One Told It Aspen K. Hopkins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, David Bau of Northeastern University, and Fernanda Viégas, Hanspeter Pfister and Martin Wattenberg, all at Harvard—spun up their own smaller copy of the GPT neural network so they could study its inner workings.
Should we ban the purchase of cigarettes for life? A US town is trying Mark Gottlieb, a public health lawyer at Northeastern University, describes how federal drug policy seems almost random, carved into stone by whoever’s in power, oddities of their own times.
MarketWatch Prepare for hard times if you’re starting a business, and be brutally honest with yourself To maintain a separation between business and personal finances, Kimberly A. Eddleston, the Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business in Boston, urges owners of startups to sign company bills with not only their name, but add their title in the business.
For ‘lockdown generation’ school shootings are their reality Mass shootings in schools have remained a grim presence in America, but their numbers have held relatively even in recent years. Since 2012, a total of 73 students have been killed in school shootings with at least four victims shot and two victims killed, according to research by James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern […]
Charlotte Observer What is a living shoreline, and how could it save one of NC’s most valuable ecosystems? Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/weather-news/article254819557.html#storylink=cpy After 2016’s Hurricane Matthew, though, researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill and Northeastern University interviewed 295 homeowners on sounds in Carteret and Dare counties and the Intracoastal Waterway in Brunswick County. They found that about 24% of the homeowners with bulkheads and 12% of the homeowners with living shorelines reported damage to their property.
Why Do Some Crimes Increase When Airbnbs Come to Town? Researchers from Northeastern University reviewed data in Boston from 2011 to 2018, a period of both sustained growth in Airbnb listings and growing concerns about crime. They found that certain violent crimes—fights, robberies, reports of someone wielding a knife—tended to increase in a neighborhood a year or more after the number of Airbnbs increased—a sign, […]
In good health: meet the people who have quit their jobs to join the NHS “It’s not terribly surprising,” says Prof Paula Caliguiri of Northeastern University in Boston, US, and the author of Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work for You. Stuck at home, unable to leave the house during those early, fear-filled months of lockdown, many people looked at the […]
Standing Too Close. Not Covering Coughs. If Someone Is Violating Social Distancing Rules, What Do You Do? “Everyone is stressed out and fearful for their own health,” says Northeastern University law professor Aziza Ahmed, an expert in health law. “We have to be sensitive to what other people have the capacity to do.”
Any piece of technology that stores information could be compromised—even obsolete devices that get thrown out with the garbage The risks created by easily accessible software are increasingly coming into focus. Recent research from Northeastern University in Boston has found that apps for Android phones were acting beyond their terms of use by recording users’ screens and sending that information back to the company. Of the 17,260 apps researched, they found over half had […]