“Once the fire starts going, everything inside the battery will burn,” said K.M. Abraham, a lithium-ion battery expert and former professor at Northeastern University.

David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, called sharing of sensitive videos and images by Tesla employees “morally reprehensible.”

“There is no incentive for elected officials to stop doubling down on these approaches,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. 

This week I spoke with several people who are hard at work on various aspects of this endeavor. Among them: Audrey Tang, the minister of digital affairs for Taiwan; Divya Siddarth, a founder, with Saffron Huang, of the Collective Intelligence Project; Colin Megill, president of the board of the Computational Democracy Project; and Beth Simone Noveck, […]

As a recent paper from researchers at Northeastern University and MIT explains, LLM’s tend to “hallucinate” (an industry term for making things up) the further down a list of subtasks that one gets.

“In general, it’s not a great idea,” said Todd Brown, vice chair at Northeastern University School of Pharmacy and executive director of the Massachusetts Independent Pharmacists Association. “Our current system is set up with checks and balances. Physicians prescribe, pharmacists dispense.”

Whaley, a Democrat, is no longer in public office. But to this day, whenever she hears about another mass shooting, she’ll contact the city’s mayor, passing along a 200-page guide for mayors and city managers compiled by researchers at Northeastern University with her input.

This is how people seeking parole often describe the experience. Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, describes parole hearings as “a trap for the unwary,” where those who are mentally unprepared for the emotional complexities of the process can find themselves at a grave disadvantage.

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University and a former Legal Aid Society appellate attorney in New York City, said that in the past 15 years, there have been more than two dozen prosecutions of that kind in the judicial jurisdiction that covers Manhattan and the Bronx.