“There are examples like that in many communities where … keeping the EMS service alive is a challenge unto itself, and much less keeping the people who work in it skilled enough,” said Dr. Katherine Simmonds, the Associate Director of Health Programs and a clinical professor at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute.

Northeastern University criminal justice professor Eric Piza has conducted one of the most comprehensive studies of ShotSpotter, looking at 15 years of data on its use in Kansas City and Chicago. 

“It’s difficult to do financial planning when you’re not sure about the rate at which prices are going to be increasing in the future,” says Robert Triest, Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. 

The researchers even say that it would be possible to read the shifting signals from an entire peloton of cyclists and then jam everyone except a chosen rider. “You can basically jam everyone except you,” says Northeastern professor Aanjhan Ranganathan, another author of the paper.

“News organizations should proceed with caution when dealing with hacked documents. As long as they’re verified and newsworthy, then they’re fair game, but motive is an important part of the story, too,” Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, told CNN.

“If you go through security — you’ve been vetted, you’ve been inspected, you’ve been sensed — and generally you’re in a secure area making you a hard target,” says Carey Rapport, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University and expert in event security checkpoints.

Alan Schroeder, a professor emeritus at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, argued that a Harris-Trump debate on Fox News seems implausible because of the network’s alignment with the Republican Party.

“Voters can often see right through flaccid attempts to attack political opponents,” Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.

“Notifications have this additional stamp of authority,” said Laura Edelson, a researcher at Northeastern University, in Boston. “When you get a notification about something, it’s often assumed to be something that has been curated by the platform and not just a random thing from your feed.”